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The agency that must provide enough water at proper pressure to satisfy the fire protection needs of the community; work with the fire department to determine such things as water main size and location, fire flow determination, hydrant locations, and pumping and storage capacity and they must notify fire department when parts of the system are closed.
What is Water Department (or Water Authority)?
100
The agency that works with fire departments to contain and control wildland fires. They have access to heavy equipment and the expertise to conduct specific operations.
What is the State Forestry Department (or the State Department of Natural Resources)?
100
The DHS is an agency created to secure the U.S. against terrorist attacks in addition to preparing for and responding to all hazards and disasters.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
100
The IAPBF is an association dedicated to assisting black career firefighters in areas such as working conditions, advancement, and interracial programs. The organization serves as a liaison among black firefighters throughout the country.
What is International Association of Professional Black Firefighters?
100
The agency that responds to approximately 70,000 disasters in the United States every year, ranging from home fires that affect a single family to hurricanes that affect tens of thousands, to earthquakes that impact millions. In these events, the agency provides shelter, food, health and mental health services to help families and entire communities get back on their feet. Although they are not a government agency, they are an essential part of the response when disaster strikes.
What is American Red Cross.
200
This agency that is responsible for building and maintaining public throughways; they may ask for advice from the fire department in designing roadways and bridges; they may provide equipment that allows firefighters on the apparatus to change signal lights from red to green and they may be able to provide equipment and services to abate hazardous materials or other emergencies.
What is the Public Works Department.
200
State OES is the agency that interacts with the fire department during natural disasters, large wildland fires, civil unrest, and other larger emergency situations.
What is the State Office of Emergency Services (OES)?
200
The ATF is a bureau that assists local agencies in major arson investigations and regulates the storage and transportation of explosives throughout the United States.
What is the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)?
200
The IAAI is an association serving members that are currently engaged in suppressing arson for a government or private organization. The primary function of the IAAI is to attack the problem of arson.
What is International Association of Arson Investigators?
200
The AHA is an agency that provides scientific statements, practice guidelines and clinical updates on cardiovascular disease and stroke. They also offer CPR training for first responders.
What is the American Heart Association?
300
The agency that will be called on after fire incidents to inspect occupancies involving food preparation and storage.
What is the local Health Department?
300
The training agency for firefighters and officers; the agency employs a full- and part-time staff of instructors and administrators; it is associated with state universities, fire marshal offices, and vocational-technical programs and it may provide technical assistance as well as training programs to fire departments.
What is State Fire Training?
300
The purpose of the NFA is to advance the professional development of fire service personnel and other people engaged in fire prevention and control. This agency provides programs at the resident facility, in the field and online.
What is the National Fire Academy?
300
The IAFF is a labor organization of more than 240,000 permanent, paid firefighters and emergency medical service personnel, concerned with firefighter health and safety. This organization operates the National Fire Fighter Near Miss Reporting System.
What is the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAAF)?
300
The NTTC represents the tank truck industry before Congress and many of the federal regulatory agencies, including the DOT , EPA, DHS, and their many divisions like PHMSA, FMCSA, and TSA. They are also involved in numerous state and local issues that impact tank truck carriers through an affiliate relationship with the American Trucking Associations.
What is the National Tank Truck Carriers?
400
This department collaborates with fire departments during large-scale disasters, provides personnel and equipment and is instrumental in the pre-incident planning and stockpiling of supplies for large-scale disasters.
What is the (local) Office of Emergency Management?
400
The state agency that is involved in firefighter safety, writes specifications for equipment that firefighters use, and may investigate firefighter deaths and injuries.
What is the State Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
400
FEMA is the agency gives the President the capability to provide for national needs in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to all types of emergencies. The mission of the agency is to support citizens and first responders to build, sustain, and improve the capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
400
The ISO is organization of insurers that evaluates and rates the fire protection in communities throughout the U.S.
What is the Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO)?
400
The AAR- BOE is a unique membership organization dedicated to helping carriers, shippers, and container manufacturers continually improve hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation safety. Formed in 1907 by the railroad industry to serve as a self-policing agency to advance the safe transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles, the BOE actually developed the first hazmat safety rules, which were later adopted and expanded upon by the Interstate Commerce Commission and later the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Today's BOE continues to provide valuable services and products throughout North America that promote compliance with federal hazmat regulations and industry safety standards.
What is the (Association of American Railroads) Bureau of Explosives (AAR-BOE)?
500
This agency is responsible for enforcing various codes and regulations that the local government adopts; It may review and approve plans for new buildings and renovation before construction begins; it may inspect structures and facilities for compliance with its own standards as well as fire prevention codes
What is the Building Department (Code Enforcement)
500
This agency is the principal authority on fire protection in nearly all states; it's powers are delegated by state legislative body; It responsibilities may include review and approve construction plans for fire safety; conduct fire prevention activities; investigate and determine fire causes; actively fight arson, regulate the storage and use of combustibles, hazardous materials, and explosives, provide specifications for required exits, detection systems, alarm systems, and extinguishing systems and develop and deliver fire service training programs.
What is the Office of the State Fire Marshal?
500
NIST is engaged in fire research and tests involving building technology, as well as advancing fire technology.
What is The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?
500
The NFPA is an association concerned with fire safety standards development, technical advisory services, education, research, and other related services. The members come from all segments of the fire protection field, both private and public. The primary service of the organization is the development of more than 300 technical consensus standards.
What is the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)?
500
The CPSE is a nonprofit organization that helps local public safety agencies around the world streamline and improve the services they provide their communities. Through its individual commissions, CPSE provides a host of programs including accreditation for fire and emergency service agencies and professional designations for senior-level fire and emergency service officers. Learn more! CPSE also offers a variety of workshops, designed specifically for fire and emergency service agencies and geared to aid emergency personnel in their quest for continuous quality improvement.
What is the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE)?
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