Reducing your volunteer fire department's exposure to risk is vital to your safety and success. Training, pre-fire planning and fire prevention are all important steps to minimizing your loss.

We hope that the following resources will prove to be helpful to your station.

• Emergency Response Guidebook - A guidebook developed for first responders to the scene of dangerous goods/hazardous materials incidents, created by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is offering a new publication, Fire Service Features of Buildings and Fire Protection Systems. The publication helps to increase the safety of building occupants and emergency responders.
• Preventing Church Arson: US Fire Administration guideliens to minimize risk.
• United States Fire Administration Releases Report on the Fire Response to the Northern Illinois University Shooting
• Preparation the key to protecting against the risk of flood - A Risk Management Alert addressing the awareness of flooding and preparation for incidents resulting from floods.