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• 8/15/08 - Metro Business Meeting Minutes (PDF, 22 KB) 
  • Presentation from meeting: Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ppt, 19 KB)
  • Presentation from meeting: Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group  (ppt, 3 KB)
• NFPA co-sponsors fellowships for eight fire officers to attend Harvard University Program
• Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes Web site
• Memorandum of Understanding with Federal Laboratory Consortium and Center for Technology Consortium (PDF, 87 KB)
• CTIF and Metropolitan Fire Chiefs - A new partnership (PDF, 41 PDF)
• Metro Chiefs strategic plan & implementation strategies (PDF, 43 PDF)
• Memorandum of Understanding with the Comite' Technique International De Prevention Et D'Extinction Du Feu  (PDF, 54 KB)
• Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Laboratory Consortium and the United States Fire Administration (PDF, 79 KB)
• Resources for Section members   

2008 Virginia Beach Metro Chiefs Conference presentations

• Near Miss Reporting, HFACS & Intrusive Leadership: Effective Tools for Reducing Error (ppt, 6 MB)
• Southern California Firestorms, Orange County California Fire Department (ppt, 2 MB)
• Wills for Heroes Foundation (ppt, 1 MB)
• An update on the latest research on human behavior and evacuation , Guylene Proulx, Ph.D. (ppt, 4.5 MB)
• Developing authentic leadership, Kelvin J. Cochran (ppt, 1.5 MB)
• Safer application history (ppt, 41 KB)
• Center for Firefighter Safety Research and Development (ppt, 1.2 MB)
• ProBoard accreditation, Kevin O'Connell (ppt, 2.2 MB)
• Multi-phase study on firefighter safety and the deployment of resources (ppt, 1.3 MB)
• Building a nationwide public safety broadband network, Alan Caldwell and Chief Harlin R. McEwen  (ppt, 853 KB)
• Metro Fire Chiefs 2011 (ppt, 11 MB)
• Trends in on-duty firefighter deaths and injuries , Rita F. Fahy (ppt, 1.1 MB)
• UK Fire & Rescue Service update, Sir Ken Knight (ppt, 7.5 MB)
• Sentinel System (ppt, 4.8 KB)
• National response framework (ppt, 7.2 MB)
• The Public Safety Officers' Benefits program (ppt, 951 KB)

Urban fire safety project
Because of special challenges that large urban fire departments face in reaching high-risk populations, NFPA conducted a project (PDF, 533 KB)  to work with the leadership of two cities to examine challenges in reaching high-risk audiences, survey existing public education smoke alarm installation and outreach programs, and identify programs that work and that can be replicated in urban areas with similar populations and challenges. The cities of Louisville and Milwaukee Fire Department leadership worked with the NFPA team. Dozens of interviews were conducted with fire service leaders and leaders of community organizations. Eleven recommendations for urban fire departments were included in the report. 

Resources for Section members

• National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System Note: To sign up for the Report of the Week, please send an e-mail with “Subscribe” in the subject line. You can also download the program kit (zip file, 19 MB).
• Metropolitan Fire Chiefs bylaws (PDF, 29 KB)
• Metropolitan Fire Chiefs – Policy Manual (PDF, 97 KB)
• Metropolitan Fire Chiefs – Conference Planning Manual (PDF, 103 KB)
• Summary of the Emergency Site Management System (PDF, 136 KB)
• NFPA homeland security information and resources
• View high-rise fire safety and evacuation procedures

2007 Los Angeles Metro Chiefs Conference presentations

• Stoking your internal fire for better health (ppt),  Ti Caudron, PhD, CEO, The Metabolic Edge
• Latest, best ideas  (ppt), Philip Schaenman, president, TriData Division, System Planning Corporation
• Firefighter cancer support network (ppt), Mike Dubron, firefighter paramedic
• Fire protection for the Lotschberg tunnel (ppt), Laurent Wehrli, President of Swissfire Federation
  Part 2 (ppt)
  Part 3 (ppt)
• Trends in fire service deployment (ppt), Sir Ken Knight, London Fire Commissioner
• Metro Fire Chiefs survey (PDF, 350 KB)
• Diversity by rank research study (doc)
• Lesson learned, lesson shared: Near-miss reporting, one year later (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Preparation for terrorism and public safety (doc)