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Monday, July 5, 2010
As is
usual these days, we’re on the road again, in Yarmouth, N.S., this week for the Maritime
Association of Fire Chiefs conference. More on that in a minute. Meantime, thanks
to all the good folks at Firehall.com for the positive comments on the
acquisition by Annex Publishing & Printing, the parent company of FFIC and Canadian Firefighter and EMS Quarterly, of the website and your
encouragement to keep it fresh and moving forward.
We’ve long
enjoyed the news and forums on Firehall.com and we’re working on ways to
integrate some of what we do at Firefightingincanada.com with Firehall.com and in
our magazines to better serve our readers and viewers. Meantime, nothing will
change. Firefightingincanada.com and Firehall.com will remain separate websites
with similar news content but, for the most part, the other unique features of
the two sites will remain.
We hope
web viewers will participate in both sites (Firehall forums,
Firefightingincanada blog discussions) and let us know what you think of our
news and views as we aim to further our position as a digital leader in the
fire service.
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Back to
the MFCA. Yarmouth Fire Department platoon chief Lynn Seeley breathed a big
sigh of relief last night as the memorial service got under way after months of
planning for the conference. (I’ll try to post some pictures later today from
the always spectacular Sunday evening parade of chief officers, if the wireless
connections allows it!). Meantime, here’s a great photo of Lynn from Wednesday’s Yarmouth
Vanguard.
It’s cool
to have a front-row view of the difference and traditions at the various
provincial conferences. In Ontario, for example, the Sunday evening memorial
service is a beautiful and moving affair; in B.C., the 50-50 draw is a major
initiative to raise money for projects chosen by the women’s auxiliary
(generally a burn camp or burn unit); at the Maritime conference, the Sunday
parade to the church service often draws townspeople and spectators and the
evening entertainment is always first-rate (we’ll keep you posted on that – it’s
comedy night tonight).
I’m
looking forward to hearing Tim Vandenbrink on Tuesday. Tim is the Assistant
Fire Marshal in Fire Protection for Edmonton Fire Rescue. His passion for fire
and life safety is contagious and his presentation is as energetic as they
come. We’ll let you know how it goes.
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Off now
to fight the crowds at the breakfast buffet. Have a good Monday!
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