Events News

The NFPA is holding a series of webinars to be delivered by NFPA staff and other industry leaders Webinar series delivers sought-after topics by industry leaders The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released the list of upcoming webinar sessions. The newly created webinar series delivers 60-90 minute web-based presentations by staff and other industry leaders on a range of code and related topics to provide valuable and convenient live-learning sessions via...

ACS Government Systems is pleased to announce that hotel and seminar registration for FHETS 2009 will open February 13, 2009. ACS Government Systems' annual education and training event will be held Tuesday, October 13th - Friday, October 16th at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in the beautiful Orlando suburb of Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The Disney's Coronado Springs Resort is located in the Disney's Animal Kingdom Park of the Walt Disney World Resort. For the three day event, we're continui...

Plans for the climate change event 'Fighting Back!' to be held in City of Manchester Stadium on February 10th are well underway and bookings are coming in steadily. This is the first climate change event to be held jointly by the Chief Fire Officers' Associations' (CFOA) and our partners for the event, the Institution of Fire Engineers. Barry Dixon, CFOA director with responsibility for environmental issues said, "Delegates to this conference will get an overview of current climate change chall...

Entries to the Fire Excellence Awards 2009 are now open. In association with the Fire Industry Association (FIA) and running alongside Fire & Rescue 2009 and International Firex shows, the awards celebrate and acknowledge excellence in fire safety engineering, product design and innovation, and highly skilled fire and rescue practise. The awards, which will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday 12 May at Hilton Birmingham Metropole, are further supported by the Chief Fire Officers Asso...

Lifesaving Resources has released their 2009 schedule of Water and Ice Rescue training programs designed specifically for First Responders. These courses include a series of Ice Rescue Technician Courses, an annual Ice Rescue Train-the-Trainer Academy, a Swiftwater Rescue Technician Course, a series of Water Rescue Technician Courses, and an annual Water Rescue Train-the-Trainer Academy. All courses meet or exceed NFPA 1670 Standard for Technician Rescue. For information and/or registration,...

After the success of this years show at the ACC Liverpool back in August, Fire & Rescue once again returns to the NEC Birmingham in May 2009. This is the UK's leading event for public, private and industrial services; delivering a high calibre audience of key decision-makers and specifiers. Brought to you in partnership with Fire Conferences & Exhibitions Ltd which represents the interests of the Chief Fire Officer Association, the Institution of Fire Engineers and the Fire Protection...

A major new show taking place in Hong Kong next year will explore the need for expertise and creativity among emergency and engineering professionals. Fire Asia 2009 - being held on 9-11 February - will comprise a conference and exhibition built around the theme of Rising to New Challenges. The conference will explore the growing threat of natural and manmade disasters as a result of changes to the socioeconomic landscape and the global climate. It will highlight the need for effective emergen...

CERTALARM, the pan European third party certification scheme, received significant exposure in the UK fire protection arena recently as a joint sponsor of one of the major events in the UK fire industry calendar. Some 300 Fire Industry Association (FIA) members and their guests attended the second AGM and annual lunch of the FIA at the Brewery in London on 11 November. CERTALARM was one of the event sponsors and as such had a display which attracted much interest from attendees who included the...

CET Fire Pumps Mfg will be participating in CHINA FIRE 2008. This year the show will be held in Beijing from October 28th to October 31st. CET has been promoting its' pump and foam products in this growing market for the last ten years. With a successful Olympic games under their belt, the Chinese will be looking to continue to build and protect the new infrastructure displayed to the world, at the games of 2008. CET is proud to be an established, dependable, supplier of fire protection produc...

Stand 418a (Halle1) at the Security Essen 2008 exhibition saw the launch of CERTALARM, a brand new pan-European, third party, one-stop testing and certification scheme for the fire and security industries. Following the successful registration of CERTALARM in Brussels as a not-for-profit association ('Association international sans but lucratif' - AISBL), the new scheme offers a unique European quality mark based on 3rd party one-stop certification to the EN54 fire standards and EN501 series of...

The world's leading beam-type smoke detector manufacturer, Fire Fighting Enterprises, will be exhibiting at China Fire 2008 in Beijing.The company will be at booth A335 from the 28th to the 31st of October, meeting end-users and industry colleagues, and displaying their new Fireray 5000 product.The Fireray 5000 is a brand new development in beam detector technology, with a motorised auto-alignment feature that greatly eases installation and proceeds to keep the reflected beam operating in the mo...

Fire Fighting Enterprises will be attending Firex North on October 21st and 22nd at Stand A6 in the Harrogate International Centre, Yorkshire.The British company is the leading manufacturer of optical beam type smoke detectors, with over 600,000 installations throughout the world.The newest and most advanced product on show will be the Fireray 5000 - it features a unique, motorised auto-alignment feature. This is able to provide previously impossible levels of efficiency and ease of installation...

The world's largest independent optical beam smoke detector manufacturer, Fire Fighting Enterprises, will be exhibiting at SECURITY Essen 2008. The company will be at stand 502C from the 7th to the 10th of October, bringing with them the new Fireray 5000 motorised, auto-aligning, reflective beam detector. FFE will be displaying this new, design-leading product alongside the popular F50/100 reflective detectors, the Fireray 2000 end-to-end model, and the heavy-duty Fireray EExd explosion proof...

The number and scale of forest fires and extensive blazes have increased dramatically in recent years.  If the forecasts are to be believed this development will continue - not least as a tangible consequence of the worldwide climate change. The warming of the earth surface and thus also the ever increasing risk of forest fires is a global problem: meanwhile the risk potentials do not lie any longer in extremely dry areas only - such as California, for example - but also in the Southern Eu...

Here is a look at some of the new workshops being offered at FDIC for the first time in 2008. Classes fill up fast! Aerial Apparatus Operations Aerial operators can maximize the use of these very expensive yet underutilized and misunderstood pieces of apparatus.  This greater understanding of aerial devices and their uses will enhance fireground operations and increase scene safety.  Topics include the characteristics and operating features of rear mounts, tractor-drawn aerials,...

Diane Feldman, executive editor of Fire Engineering and conference director of FDIC, sat down with Wednesday Opening Ceremony Keynote Speaker Captain Mike Gagliano, Seattle (WA) Fire Department. DF: What does keynoting at FDIC mean to you? MG: There is no real way to fully convey how honored I am to speak before the thousands of heroes who will be assembled at FDIC.  When I was informed of my selection, I was speechless.  The many giants of our service who have addressed the FDIC cam...

ARFF Working Group Information Exchange ProgramWednesday, April 9, 2008, 6:30 pm-9:00 pm, Omni Hotel Severin Ballroom The Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Working Group will host an Information Exchange Program (IEP) in addition to its classroom sessions at the Convention Center (Wednesday-Friday). The ARFF Working Group's Information Exchange Program is designed to provide an opportunity for airport firefighters to participate in an exchange of information and ideas on aviation firef...

On Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 November, fire authority officials, key stakeholders from local and central government and their partners will be converging at the Crieff Hydro Hotel, Sctoland for a two day event to share perspectives and debate the key challenges facing the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. As well as gaining a clearer perspective of your organisation’s expectations / demands of the Fire and Rescue Service, the audience will be trying to gain a better understanding of the li...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and ROC Exhibitions present the 15th Annual NFPA Americas' Fire & Security Expo 2008, Tuesday through Thursday, July 29-31, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Fla. The expo is the most important fire, security and life safety event of the year for thousands of industry professionals from Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeastern United States. More than 4,000 professionals attended in 2007, an i...