Latest Firesafety Podcast Episodes
Hoarding Risk-Reduction Strategies
The NFPA Podcast - April 23, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsResidential hoarding poses numerous dangers and fire risks for residents and firefighters, yet communities have struggled to find meaningful solutions. Today on the podcast, two of North America’s most prominent hoarding researchers join us to talk about the causes and trendlines of hoarding (2:...
Moral Injury and Suicide
The NFPA Podcast - March 26, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn most years, more firefighters die by suicide than from accidents or injuries that happen in the line of duty, according to the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance. It’s well understood that PTSD is a huge contributor to the problem, but recently a new concept called moral injury has also b...
What to Know About CO
The NFPA Podcast - March 12, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsEach year, accidental carbon monoxide poisonings cause at least 430 deaths in the U.S., and send more than 100,000 people to emergency rooms, according to the CDC. Studies have found that the number of accidental CO deaths has increased over the last decade. Today on the podcast, we speak to R...
Doing It Right: Energy Storage and Solar Installs
The NFPA Podcast - February 27, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAs the number of energy storage and photovoltaic systems being installed across the world continues to rise dramatically, so does the need for trained professionals to ensure that these systems are reliable and safe for decades to come. Today on the podcast, we discuss the various codes and stan...
Where is AI Headed?
The NFPA Podcast - February 13, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWe wrap up our two-parter about how AI technologies might impact fire and life safety by talking with Xinyan Huang, a fire protection engineer, professor, and AI researcher at the Research Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He tells us about a few of the ...
Artificial Intelligence and the Fire Service
The NFPA Podcast - January 23, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsToday’s podcast is the first in a two-part series looking at how artificial intelligence technologies could impact fire and life safety. In this episode, we focus on AI’s potential impact on the fire service. How might fire departments use AI? What are the dangers? What guardrails need to be in ...
Sustainability vs. Fire Protection
The NFPA Podcast - January 09, 2024 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsLithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic panels are technologies that may improve environmental sustainability, but also present challenges to fire protection engineers. Conversely, chemical flame retardants may lead to better fire outcomes, but also have potentially serious impacts on human healt...
Short-Term Rentals: Risky Business
The NFPA Podcast - December 26, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFrom elevators that can decapitate you to grills that can explode in your face, short-term rental properties aren’t short on things that can hurt you—or worse. In fact, short-term rental safety expert Justin Ford calls these properties the most dangerous sector of the travel and hospitality indu...
Re-Thinking Wildfire
The NFPA Podcast - December 12, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAs destruction from wildfire in the U.S. continues to set records, it’s become abundantly clear that the country’s current strategies are not working. But what should we be doing differently? Over the past year, a wildfire commission, comprised of 50 experts from a range of fields, met to try an...
Trauma and Risk
The NFPA Podcast - November 28, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIt’s well understood that childhood trauma can have dramatic effects on a person’s adult life, and in recent years, risk prevention experts have started to recognize it as a sizeable contributor to both individual and community risk. Today on the podcast, we talk to a director at the University ...
The Economic Impact of Fire Departments
The NFPA Podcast - November 14, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAt budget time, fire departments are listed as a cost on the city ledger, but that’s only part of the story. Firefighting and fire prevention also provide huge returns on investment by saving lives, buildings, businesses, and jobs. Is there a way to quantify these economic and social impacts? On...
Heat, the Silent Killer
The NFPA Podcast - October 24, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsHeatwaves aren't just uncomfortable; they are deadly for millions of people around the globe each year. Recognizing this growing threat, governments and safety departments are starting to reconsider their vulnerabilities to heat and are taking action to protect their populations and infrastruct...
The Survivors, Part 5: “Never Again”
The NFPA Podcast - September 26, 2023 21:58 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWe are replaying "The Survivors," an award-winning podcast series that NFPA first published in 2017. In the final episode, the van Dijks and other survivors want their experience to be the catalyst for the inclusion of fire sprinklers in all new homes. However, a powerful group has spent serious...
The Survivors, Part 4: “Back into the Lion’s Den”
The NFPA Podcast - September 12, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWe are replaying "The Survivors," an award-winning podcast series that NFPA first published in 2017. In Part 4, upsetting his family, Feike joins the fire service and places himself into one of America’s deadliest places for fire: homes. Fire service and safety advocates discuss today’s home fir...
Youth Firesetting Prevention and Intervention at Symposium 8
CRR Radio - September 04, 2023 20:14 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSymposium 8 Model Performance in Community Risk Reduction is approaching. The event is scheduled for February 20-24, 2024 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. There are many great model programs and topics planned for the event, including several highlighting risk reduction strategies and education focus...
The Survivors, Part 3: “Refinement by Fire”
The NFPA Podcast - August 22, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWe are replaying "The Survivors," an award-winning podcast series that NFPA first published in 2017. In Part 3, the van Dijk's emotional scarring from the fire seems to have taken a larger toll on the family than their physical injuries. They learn new coping tactics, as have many others impacte...
Symposium 8 - the leading CRR event in the U.S.
CRR Radio - August 20, 2023 18:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSteve Hrustich, Project Manager with the Vision 20/20 Executive Committee talks with Monica Colby, Fire and Life Safety Specialist, about Symposium 8. Vision 20/20’s Model Performance in Community Risk Reduction Symposium is the longest- running Community Risk Reduction (CRR) event in the nati...
The Survivors, Part 2: “The Aftermath”
The NFPA Podcast - August 08, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFor the next five NFPA Podcast episodes we are replaying "The Survivors," an award-winning podcast series NFPA first published in 2017. In Part 2, impacted by the death of their two boys, the van Dijks go through the painstaking process of healing their physical injuries from a home fire. U.S. b...
The Survivors, Part 1: “One of 367,000”
The NFPA Podcast - July 25, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFor the next five NFPA Podcast episodes we are replaying "The Survivors," an award-winning five-part podcast series that first ran in 2017. In part 1, Feike and Noelle van Dijk’s sense of normalcy is shattered when a home fire killed two of their children in 2014. Three years after the incident...
A Battery in Every Garage?
The NFPA Podcast - July 11, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFew topics are as hot right now in the fire service as consumer lithium-ion batteries. While electric vehicles and e-bikes still get the bulk of attention, residential energy storage system (ESS) installations are also starting to skyrocket as homeowners realize the value of storing their sola...
How Virtual Reality Is Changing Firefighter Training
The NFPA Podcast - June 29, 2023 14:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIncredible advancements are being made around using virtual reality to bolster firefighter training. Some fire departments are even using VR to educate the public about fire safety. Today on the podcast, we talk to Ken Willette, executive director of the North American Fire Training Directors, a...
Is 911 In Trouble?
The NFPA Podcast - June 13, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn the United States, when someone calls 911 the call is routed to an operator at a public safety answering point, or PSAP. But news outlets across the country are finding that local PSAPs are struggling, and that 911 callers are waiting longer to get help. Today on the podcast, we speak to a re...
Grilling Safety
The NFPA Podcast - May 23, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAn estimated 75 million households in the United States will fire up their grills this Memorial Day weekend. For most, the worst that will happen is a few burned hot dogs. But each year, about 22,000 people in the U.S. go to hospital emergency rooms with injuries related to grilling. Today on th...
Can We End Cancer in the Fire Service?
The NFPA Podcast - May 09, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsLast month, the U.S. federal government launched the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer—the largest project ever undertaken to better understand and reduce the risk of cancer among firefighters. Today on the podcast, we talk to the leader of this effort, Dr. Kenny Fent (2:40). He tells us ...
Falls, Fires, and Older Adults
The NFPA Podcast - April 25, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFalls and fires kill and injure more older adults than many people realize. Not only are seniors twice as likely as the general population to experience a fatal fire, they suffer an estimated 36 million falls each year in the U.S., resulting in 8 million injuries. On today’s podcast, we...
Giving Dampers Their Due
The NFPA Podcast - April 11, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsDampers are usually hidden away in ducts or ceiling cavities and seldom get much attention, but they’re a critical part of the fire protection strategy for many buildings. In a new Code Corner, NFPA Engineer Shawn Mahoney gives us a rundown of the different types of dampers, how they work, and w...
Diversity and the Fire Service
The NFPA Podcast - March 28, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsDiversity, equity, and inclusion are three words that have quickly risen priority lists at fire departments across the world in recent years. While most agree on the importance of having a diverse and inclusive workforce, what do those words actually mean in practice for the fire service? Why ha...
The Persistent Problem of Construction Fires
The NFPA Podcast - March 14, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe latest data from NFPA shows that the number of fires in buildings under construction has been steadily rising over the past several years. On average, US fire departments respond to nearly a dozen such fires every single day. In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Carr, the NFPA staff liais...
A Better Fit For Female Firefighters
The NFPA Podcast - February 28, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAbout 80 percent of female firefighters say that their personal protective clothing doesn’t fit right, and studies show that ill-fitting gear puts women at greater risk of being injured on the job. Today on the podcast, we talk to two textile researchers who measured dozens of female firefighter...
America’s First Paramedics
The NFPA Podcast - February 14, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn his stunning new book, American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics, former paramedic Kevin Hazzard explores the largely forgotten history of the Freedom House Ambulance Service. Hazzard joined the podcast to talk about his book, the early begin...
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