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This week's news
Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.
Australia
- Parliament to debate bushfire findings.
- Brumby hints powerline upgrade unlikely.
- Red tape blamed for bushfire rebuilding delays.
- Baillieu may struggle to keep bushfire promises.
- Waller apologises for Black Saturday failings.
- Nation must remember Black Saturday: Esplin.
- Bushfire survivors want genuine consultation.
- Brumby confronted by bushfire survivor.
- DSE reveals Wimmera-Mallee burns.
- Land owner wants to sell bush block to Government.
- Local CFA would welcome Royal Commissioner.
SA: Support for Black Saturday report
The SA Government says it supports 60 of the 67 recommendations in the final report from the Victoria Bushfires Royal Commission.
NSW: From the ashes emerges a clear message
Winter 2010 could go down as the time when the message finally got through - smoke alarms and home escape plans save lives.
- Three dead in weekend house fires.
- Fire chief issues warning after spate of blazes.
WA: Ngumpan pleads for post-fire help
Almost six months after a fire killed two people and destroyed the local arts centre, there are calls for government investment in the Kimberley community of Ngumpan.
WA: Residents shut out from shed fire zone
Firefighters have spent the afternoon monitoring the scene after the fire caused an acetylene cylinder to overheat, causing a potentially volatile situation.
Vic: Man critical after crash with CFA truck
Police are seeking witnesses to a crash involving a Country Fire Authority (CFA) truck in the Latrobe Valley.
International
USA: Increasing firefighting staff could save California $$$
Researchers discover that one extra firefighter per engine, could increase effectiveness of the state's firefighters by more than 50%, plus reduce the cost of fighting large wildfires.
USA: Obama urges house to pass state relief legislation
Legislation
that would provide relief to states that are struggling to pay police
officers, firemen and teachers as a result of the economic downturn.
Canada: Alberta firefighters battle BC blazes
More than 200 firefighters, seven air tankers and various pieces of equipment have been sent to BC to help battle.
USA: Overcoming extrication challenges - Boron and ultra-high strength steel
A site to help firefighters learn where Boron and other Ultra-high Strength Steel are used on vehicles:
Russia: Foreign countries join firefighting in Russia
Poland has dispatched a team of 155 firefighters to Russia.
- Russian PM Putin praises Bulgarian firefighters.
- Fire threatens Russian nuclear centre.
- Russian bushfire death toll hits 48.
- Russian nuclear facility no longer threatened by wildfires.
- Sweden to help Russian firefighters.
- Russian fires could hit Aussie beer bill.
Portugal: Two firefighters killed in Portugal forest blazes
Civil protection officials said a female firefighter died, one firefighter was badly burned and their team had to be evacuated.
- Portugal forest fires pictures.
USA: Philadelphia fire union criticises city timeline, policies in fatal fire
Firefighters union leaders assail old and new city policies that they say slowed the department's response.
UK: Firefighters extinguish nuclear weapons facility blaze
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that broke out at Britain's main nuclear weapons factory located west of London.
USA: Alabama firefighter cuts
Birmingham firefighters may be facing a 20% cut after a vote by the city council today.
USA: Chicago firefighter falls from ladder, dies of injuries
Christopher Wheatley was doing what firefighters do — climbing a ladder, weighed down with gear, moving toward smoke instead of away — when he slipped.
India: Chemical unit gutted in Bangalore
As many as 50 firefighters with 20 fire tenders struggled for more than four hours to extinguish the fire.
USA: Bedford County firefighters trapped, then rescued from burning home
Two rescued themselves, then pulled out a third firefighter.
USA: Video: Firefighters Pass the Boot In Moraga
Moraga-Orinda Fire District firefighters flooded Rheem Blvd. and Moraga Road Monday to "pass the boot" and collect money to help children with Muscular Dystrophy.
USA: FDNY plan to hire 300 firefighters blocked by judge
He had previously ruled that two other written exams illegally discriminated against black and Hispanic firefighter candidates.
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A team of Australian and American firefighters to embark on a 7,400-kilometre run across the United States.