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The United States Fire Administration (USFA) is a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) located in Frederick County, Maryland, near Emmitsburg. [1] [2] Per the official website, "the mission of the U.S. Fire Administration is to support and strengthen fire and emergency medical services (EMS) and stakeholders to prepare for, prevent, mitigate and respond to all hazards".
The Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 was created in response to the 1973 National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control report, America Burning. [1] The report's authors estimated fires caused 12,000 deaths, 300,000 serious injuries and $11.4 billion in property damage annually in the United States, asserting that "the richest and most technologically advanced nation in the ...
Sparky the Fire Dog. Sparky the Fire Dog is the official mascot of the National Fire Protection Association. Created in 1951 to promote fire safety education for children, [9] [10] he is a Dalmatian dressed in firefighting gear. A children's book about Sparky by Don Hoffman was published in 2011.
On Oct. 17, The CPSC issued a recall for 89,500 Colsen fire pits ranging from 5 to 18 inches wide, and sold through several retailers including Amazon, Wayfair and Walmart between January 2020 to ...
Updated December 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium on December 14, 2024 in ...
(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump blasted federal “work from home” policies Monday, calling them “ridiculous” and stirring up pushback from federal employee unions.
A fire fighter's turnout gear staged in front of a fire engine. According to the National Fire Department Registry, in January 2025 there were 1,207,800 firefighters in the United States (this includes career, volunteer and paid per call firefighters as well as civilian staff and non-firefighting personnel). Of these, 14.7% are mostly or ...
About 1,600 Forest Service firefighters, or more than 10% of the wildland fire workforce, lived in government housing last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the agency, said ...