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Mike Garcia, the city’s fire chief, achieved professional accreditation by the Commission on Fire Accreditation’s International Chief Fire Officer Designation Program on June 2. The program was created to recognize fire officers who have demonstrated excellence and outstanding achievement throughout their career.

Achieving the designation requires having a strong educational background, diverse participation in emergency services at the local, state and national level, and demonstrated involvement in the broader community — all validated by emergency services colleagues. The Aurora Fire Department has been awarded the Accredited Agency status in 2000 and reaccreditation in 2005 and in 2010.


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I have been really busy and have not even looked at the Sims2 in ages. I was glad to see the the people at EA finally let users in the Sims 3 be able to become a firefighter in the game. I have not played it yet, but here is a look at the job in a video from SimPrograms.

Here is a nice fire video for you all. It posted on my Twitter feed via http://www.jimthetrucker.com . Send a shout out to firefghter19 who posted the video on YouTube. Enjoy!

The Navy just announced last week that Commander, Navy Region Hawaii (CNRH)Federal Fire Department (FFD) was presented with an accreditation plaque at the CNRH FFD headquarters building on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

The plaque was presented to the CNRH FFD for being recognized as an accredited agency by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International.

According to navy.mil, "The accreditation was awarded to CNRH FFD for demonstrating that all 298 performance indicators, 84 core competencies and applicable criteria had been met and received a credible rating."

There are more than 250 personnel assigned to CNRH FFD. CNRH FFD is one of only three Navy fire departments and one of 16 Department of Defense fire departments that have received accreditation.

Anyone who reads my blog knows that I love to go on YouTube and watch crazy fire videos. The other day the guys were in the station watching these crazy firefighter vs nurse videos. The amount of detail that is in the dialogue just says this is something that really happened. Check it out.

Peer review is the central part of the Accreditation model. The qualifications of the people who make up the visiting assessment teams are critical to the entire accreditation process. The Peer Assessor Workshop is designed to educate, equip and prepare the participant to be an effective CFAI peer team member.

This upcoming workshop is delivered by webinar and virtual classroom. This lets you attend without having to leave your office or home. The workshop consists of two separate webinar sessions. Each session is 1 to 1.5 hours in length for a total of 4.5 hours. The workshop includes issuance of Peer Assessor Handbook, lecture, fast poll questions, home-work, final examination and administrative paperwork. The total cost for the workshop is $400.00 per participant. Attendance to the CFAI Self-Assessment (16 hours) and Basic SOC (8 hours) are prerequisite courses to this workshop.

Workshop Dates are as follows:



Session 1: May 4, 2010 @ 2pm EST

Session 2: May 11, 2010 @ 2pm EST

Session 3: May 18, 2010 @ 2pm EST

Session 4: May 25, 2010 @ 2pm EST



Register here

This is my first attempt at making a Wordpress theme, with some help from my wife. I have been looking all over for something that resembled a firefighter theme, but could not find anything close or free. ecently my wife has been having a lot of problems with her website because she kept downloading free Wordpress templates only to find out that they did not work correctly. We finally decided to pay the $49 for Artisteer which is a software that lets you make your own templates. It is really easy to use. She made a couple the other day and asked me if I wanted to make some fire themes for my site. We started working on it together and when she put the kids to bed I worked on it myself. It was real easy to understand any did not take me long to make the template. The part that took the longest was finding picture that I wanted.

The header picture is an original picture of mine taken at Louis F. Garland Fire Academy at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas. The photo was taken during Haz-Mat Instructor School and the exercise was pressurized container fires. I’m the really good looking one in the picture. I thought it looked really awesome so I am letting anyone who wants to use it, download it. I would appreciate it if you could leave my link in the footer.

You can download the .zip theme file here: intothefire.zip.

If you have trouble installing themes, here is the Wordpress Using Themes page.