OMFPOA call for resource sharing.

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Alzheimer’s Awareness Month: Fire Safety Tips for Caregivers

Today, during Alzheimer’s Awareness month, let’s discuss a crucial yet often overlooked topic: fire safety for those living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. When someone is living with Alzheimer’s, even everyday tasks can become challenging and sometimes dangerous. Alzheimer’s impacts memory, judgement, and physical abilities, which can elevate risks in emergencies – particularly

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OHL 50/50 Draw to Support 3 Fire Departments

The Fire Marshal’s Public Fire Safety Council is excited to partner with the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). One of the first items in the partnership is attending the January 15 at the Connor McDavid “OHL Top Prospect” Game and having a Kiosk set up. We have invited Brantford Fire to attend the kiosk and discuss

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Our duties are shifting on a daily basis from preparing emergency homeless shelters and hospitals to completing immediate threat to life inspections and completing fire investigations.  Many have been tasked with using down time to prepare or update SOP’s, SOG’s and fire safety education presentations.  Therefore we’re encouraging our members to submit copies of documentation that they are willing to share with their colleagues.  We’re also interested in existing on-line fire safety education resources that can be shared with other departments.  All documents will be entered into the My Account – Department Member Files which are only available to logged in members.  Follow this link to see what’s there now and to submit your resources https://omfpoa.com/department-member-files/.

Thank you and stay safe.