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Fire deaths and injuries and property losses continue to plague the United States, yet funding for fire protection and prevention continues to be funded primarily on the local level. A federal fire focus is long overdue in the U.S.

A retired Fire & EMS Battalion Chief launches a website designed to inform and educate people in the USA about fire safety through conversation on the Internet.

This summer teach your children the basics of fire safety to protect them from fire related death and injury now and in the future. Many fire departments nor schools have the resources to provide this valuable information to your children.

Memorial Day historically marks the beginning of the summer season in the United States and means people start getting out using fire outdoors for cooking and entertainment. This blog discusses outdoor fire safety.

Cooking fires are the number one cause of fires in the USA and many times the involved cook was a teenager frying with oil, animal fat or grease.

Photoelectric smoke detectors do a better job of detecting the smoke from slow burning, smoldering fires--the type of fire that can kill people in their sleep--than do the more commonly installed ionization smoke detectors.

Law enforcement, fire, and EMS personnel lose precious time getting to the scene of an emergency because people do not know how to call 911 or home and business owners do not have their address posted where responders can easily see it.

A retired Fire & EMS Battalion Chief launches a website designed to inform and educate people in the USA about fire safety through conversation on the Internet.