This afternoon staff from our fire department participated with members of our police department assigned to a special tactical team. Without getting into the details too much, the fire department’s role was to perform decontamination operations. Our fire department is one of 8 in Hennepin County that has a “Life Safety Unit”. The unit is [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Life as a Volunteer Firefighter
January 27, 2005 – 3:59 pm
Last night I couldn’t sleep and so I wandered downstairs to my PC to work on two internet based classes that I help teach to aspiring fire officers. The two classes are “Fire Administration Advanced” and “Managing Fire Department Personnel” respectively.
My job is to conduct weekly online discussions amongst the students on a weekly topic [...]
Fire Service Teamwork
January 25, 2005 – 9:00 am
While driving through the city on Saturday I came upon a husband and wife team diligently shoveling out the fire hydrant near their house. I stopped to applaud their efforts since this is a deed that is near and dear to my heart. Wintertime fires present a host of challenges for the fire service. Finding [...]
RSS: syndication and aggregation
January 24, 2005 – 10:29 am
We’ve now added RSS to this weblog. What’s RSS?
It’s a radio signal for a website, most commonly used for weblogs. More technically: “Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable “What’s New” for your site.” See Intro to RSS [...]
