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2008—IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR! By Barbara Doepping There is much to be said around the country these days regarding all the ups and downs we've all experienced during 2008, in fact scuttlebutt has it that we´d better hang on to our hats, hunker down and hang on as we get ready to ride out 2009. To read more about election trends in 2009 go to "Voter Bond Support Remains Strong". The good news here at the Interact Business Group (IBG) is that 2008 was a very good year, and we'd like to share our success stories with you! January 2008, Four New Public Safety Training Centers Underway! and peruse a synopsis of each of the following training centers: (1) Luzerne Community College, Pennsylvania; (2) Contra Costa County, California; (3) Vacaville, California; and (4) Portland, Oregon-each unique with specific needs. February 2008, IBG President Bill Booth was Selected to Join the New York Police Department Training Center Value Engineering Team in a series of workshops for their newly proposed consolidated training center to be built in College Point, Queens, to replace the inadequate Manhattan facility that opened in 1964. Study the key points experts reviewed for the project. March 2008, A Working Partnership IBG's President Bill Booth discusses three hot topics about different approaches to a training center's success. For example, were you aware that more and more agencies are partnering with Community Colleges in order to realize their training center needs? This article presents three approaches that are currently being used today between agencies and community colleges to manage and administrate public safety training facilities:
May 2008, Relive the vision of Martha Chapman and her family (who lost 12 family members in a violent natural gas pipeline explosion in New Mexico) in A Dream is Born. The disaster resulted in the Permian Basin Regional Training Center, which provides first responders the education, skills, and hands-on training they will need to meet future catastrophes, like the Chapman family encountered, head-on. July 2008, Experience the excitement at the ribbon-cutting dedication of Phase One of the training institute. Read the Crown Jewel Becomes Reality for New Public Safety Training Center at Luzerne County Community College, Pennsylvania. September 2008, Phase 1 of the Kalamazoo Regional Police and Fire Training Center which was dedicated August 28, 2008. In 2001, the year of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil, the City and County of Kalamazoo, City of Portage, City of Oshtemo, Kalamazoo Township, Western Michigan University, and the Kalamazoo Community College came together to investigate the need, potential location and cost to build and operate a regional public-safety training academy, along with the help of the Interact Business Group. See their mission accomplished in our article, Protecting the Homeland. November 2008, Walk with the thousands who attended the 27th Annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend, October 3-5, 2008 in Emmitsburg, Maryland. This was held to honor and commemorate the sacrifice of firefighters who lost their lives while working in the line of duty. See our article Firefighters-Fallen but Not Forgotten. But don't stop there. Discover recent vital statistics of firefighter deaths, and what the Interact Business Group has been doing to improve training and decrease firefighter in-the-line-of-duty deaths this past year. 2008 has been a very good year! Let us help you make 2009 an even better, safer, Happy New Year.
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Planning group aids training center success Voter Bond Support Remains Strong First class graduates from county fire training center Fire training now part of college curriculum Firemen killed in Bray tragedy lacked training F.A.T.S Training gets officers ready for life and death encounters Fire training for ILM crews Training, tactics help cut police deaths A day with the NYPD offers some Finest insight No money to train police recruits in Oakland Study Group - Traps Turn Facilities Into Disasters Detroit firefighter dies in early blaze Family of paralyzed former Hull firefighter who died this week “at peace” about 1999 accident Fire departments team up to offer reduced-cost training courses New dogs in town
Victoria Police Department's K-9 unit back in force FDNY Firefighter Jamel M. Sears Dies Following Training Exercise Training for the most difficult decision an officer can face Campus, Public Safety take part in shooter drill Training helps rookie officer Firefighters who rescued grandmother from Rockaway Twp. fire are honored British firefighters sent to train in Texas because it's cheaper Report says fumbled gun went off, killing reservist Chandler Fire probed over breathing-apparatus training Staph infections traced to firefighter training center Officer, Should I Buy A Gun? New York was lucky to have him Hundreds pay their respects to fallen fire Lt. Firefighters' live burn training gives adrenaline rush Injured firefighter home to Firearms can be green, too Two dogs join the NHP law enforcement team Old Country Pub building burns Lincolnton firefighter: You get adrenaline and you just pray right there, 'Lord, let her live' Fire officials respond to trainee death report Firefighters complete rigorous exam The above dated news links may have expired. If you would like more information on any of these please contact Mary at 760-751-0773
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