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Christopher
P. Riley, MS, CFO, MIFireE
Fire Chief, City of Pueblo
CSFCA
President
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1st Annual Colorado Public Safety Week
(Continued)
This being said, we
are asking all public safety agencies to dedicate at
least one day during this week to focus on highway
traffic safety. This could include reviewing your
SOP’s, holding classroom training sessions and
working with other agencies you routinely respond
with to develop and/or exercise traffic safety
policies and plans.
A second component of
this week centers on public education/awareness. We
recommend time also be set aside during this week to
educate the public on traffic hazards, how to
approach and safely pass parked emergency vehicles,
why fire apparatus block the highway when working
traffic crashes, etc.
To our knowledge,
Colorado is the first state in the nation to conduct
this type of inclusive public safety week. Let’s
all be a part of history and take a proactive
approach to vehicle driving and road safety to
ensure “Everyone Goes Home Safe”.
Additional information
concerning the 1st Annual Colorado Public Safety
Week, including Highway Traffic Safety resources,
will be posted on the website and distributed to
CSFCA members.
Thank you for your
on-going commitment to Firefighter Safety!
Respectfully submitted,
Christopher P. Riley, MS, CFO, MIFirE
Fire Chief, City of Pueblo
President, CSFCA
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Firefighter Safety & Survival
Message: Chemical Suicides are on the Rise and Pose
Serious Risk to Responders
(Continued)
When Hazmat arrived
they donned Level B PPE and SCBA and opened the door
to the vehicle – the monitors showed 340 ppm of
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) – more than three times the
lethal concentration (the IDLH of H2S is 100 ppm).
In response, the CSFCA
has prepared a Firefighter Safety & Survival Message
to assist our members in understanding the risk to
firefighters responding to these incidents and the
measures that can be taken to reduce this risk.
The information contained in the Firefighter Safety
& Survival Message is intended to serve as model
guidelines. Local agencies may choose to alter
these, or implement different policies, based on
local training, resources and policies. The
important point is that we should be prepared to
respond safely to events of this nature. Please
distribute this information to your members and
other responders in your community.
See Firefighter Safety & Survival Message
here.
We have also put together a webpage to compile
resources and information concerning chemical
suicides, as an additional resource for our members.
It can be found
here.
The big take home message is maintaining a
heightened sense of situational awareness, so that
EVERY ONE GOES HOME!
Respectfully submitted,
Christopher P. Riley, MS, CFO, MIFirE
Fire Chief, City of Pueblo
President, CSFCA
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Previous Messages |
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June 2007 |
January 2008 |
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April 2008 |
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June 2008 |
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December 2008 |
January 2009 |
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June 2009 |
Sept 11, 2009 |
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January 2010 |
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“Serving the Chief Fire Officers of Colorado since
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The CSFCA reserves right of approval or refusal of any
proposed use. Each proposed commercial use must be
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