Firefighting News

The following firefighter news feeds are the latest information we have available regarding general firefighting news, incident news, fire department funding news, legislative news, and grant news that effects the volunteer and combined fire/EMS community. If you have any firefighting news, or your fire department has news of a special announcement, please contact us.

VFD/EMS News

Incident and General Firefighting News.

Legislative News
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Grant News

Number of Volunteer Fire Departments Declining - See Full Article USAToday 11/7/05

S. 1857
To provide for community disaster loans.

VFD-Funding launches legislative initiative for a $1,000/yr. tax credits and a $2,500/yr. scholarships for volunteer firefighters and un-paid EMS personnel

Partnerships Key to Emergency Preparedness

November 4, 2005 – Secretary Chertoff discussed the importance of collaboration with partners throughout the first responder community and that Homeland Security is working “to provide firefighters with the resources and funding you need. Through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, just this year alone we will award more than $580 million to fire departments all across the country for operations and safety equipment. We have also put together a new incident management framework that puts all of us on the same page and provides an overarching structure for emergency preparedness. It is a blueprint designed to guide and coordinate the integration of our capabilities and resources across county and state lines. “

Other News and Information Sources

Fire Times. Online fire service newspaper covering just about any topic.

Firehouse Friday's. Join KOVR channel 13's Dave Bender as he visits a different local firehouse each friday.

Firehouse Trivia. KOVR Channel 13's Dave Bender's Triva page.

Incident Command Page of Arizona. Incident notification group covering Arizona, California & Nevada. Able to send to any device with an email address.

Yahoo Firefighter News. Firefighter stories from around the world.

Yahoo Paramedic News. Paramedic stories from around the world.

Yahoo Rescue News. Rescue stories from around the world.