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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The message is simple, and the habit can be lifesaving. Thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occur in homes without working smoke alarms, while 24 percent occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate, frequently due to dead or missing batteries.* For 25 years, the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery(®) program has been dedicated to helping share the life-saving reminder to change the batteries in...
TULSA, Okla., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired the Elsevier Public Safety Group including flagship magazine JEMS (Journal of Emergency Medical Services), JEMs.com, and the EMS Today Conference & Exposition (the JEMS Conference), EMS Insider newsletter, along with FireRescue magazine, FirefighterNation.com, FireEMSblogs.com, Law Officer magazine, LawOfficer.com, and the...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Congressional Fire Services Institute (CFSI) and the MedicAlert Foundation have announced the establishment of a new awards program to recognize fire departments from across the country for outstanding achievements in EMS services. The Excellence in Fire Service-Based EMS Awards Program will honor volunteer, career and combination departments that have established innovative and highly effective best practices in emergency medical...
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), jointly announced today the launch of "The Silent Killer" educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the duty-related dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and reducing the known risk factors that unnecessarily kill or injure fire fighters each year. This important new health and safety campaign...
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) and Measure-Through Motion and Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) jointly announce a new health and safety program designed to help fire departments across the nation implement new rehabilitation and medical monitoring standards to reduce the duty-related health hazards that claim the lives of hundreds of the nation's firefighters...
TV Worldwide (www.TVWorldwide.com), a fast-growing, web-based global TV network and Internet TV industry pioneer, announced the launch of International Association of Fire Chiefs TV or IAFC TV (www.IAFCTV.org) in a teaming partnership with the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). IAFC TV is an innovative Internet TV channel dedicated to the millions of fire service professionals, first responders and emergency medical personnel, worldwide. IAFC TV presents live newscasts and town...
TV Worldwide (www.TVWorldwide.com), a fast-growing, web-based global TV network and Internet TV industry pioneer, announced that it had been selected by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to partner in creating and launching International Association of Fire Chiefs TV or IAFC TV (www.IAFCTV.org). IAFC TV will be an innovative Internet TV channel dedicated to the millions of fire service professionals, first responders and emergency medical personnel, worldwide. As part of the...
National League of Cities TV (NLC TV, www.NLCTV.org), the Internet TV channel of the National League of Cities (NLC) produced on cooperation with TV Worldwide, announced that first responders have reacted positively to a recent NLC TV webcast featuring a state-of-the-art technology that can significantly enhance the incident response survival rates. Known as the Advanced Incident Response System or AIRS, the IPv6-enabled solution allows incident response personnel from various agencies to...
TV Worldwide, the Internet's First TV Network announced that it had been selected by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to produce the webcast of the association's recent Fire-Rescue International (FRI) 2008 Show, held August 14-16 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Co., and that video from this event is now available. This TV Worldwide webcast can be viewed as a direct link from the IAFC web site (www.IAFC.org) and from TV Worldwide's Homeland Defense TV Channel...
