Learning Resources for Studies in Community and Human Services
Recommended Links — General
- Empire State College Online Library Community and Human Services Studies Resources
- Empire State College Online Library Internet Resources in Community and Human Services - see Community and Human Services Studies Resources above for the most up-to-date information
Recommended Links — By the Center for Distance Learning
Emergency and Fire Services
Associations
- International City/County Management Association
www.icma.org
professional management association for managers, administrators and assistants in cities, towns, counties, and regional entities throughout the world - includes a public safety and emergency management section with up-to-date news, an eLibrary and web links to federal agencies concerned with issues of public safety and disaster planning - International Association of Arson Investigators
www.firearson.com/ - International Association of Fire Fighters
www.iaff.org/ - National Fire Protection Association
www.nfpa.org
membership organization advocating fire prevention through the development of safety codes and standards, training and education, offering access to codes, a wide variety of training and education programs and materials, fire-related research data, professional development seminars and conferences - National Association of Emergency Management Technicians
www.naemt.org/
Public Education
- Firewise
www.firewise.org/
educational workshops, tutorials, and interactive games on fire safety, including information on community planning and awareness
Publications
- Fire Engineering Magazine
fe.pennnet.com/
provides training, education and management information for fire and emergency services personnel worldwide. Articles are written by experts in the fire service and focus on lessons-learned. The web site includes a discussion board, a list of conferences and events, and links to a variety of current news articles on topics related to the field. - Fire House
www.firehouse.com/
comprehensive site for fire fighters including a variety of forums, an online magazine, current news articles, job listings, career and training information and events calendar - Institute of Homeland Security
www.homelandsecurity.org
explores issues related to homeland security with links to the "Journal of Homeland Security"
Research
- Integrated Emergency Management
www.richmond.edu/~wgreen/benchmark.htm
BENCHMARK is a site designed to assist students of emergency management in research in the discipline. BENCHMARK is posted and maintained by Dr. Walter G. Green III of the University of Richmond. - Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/sara.htm - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/cercla.htm
State, Local and Federal Government
- Research and Special Programs Administration Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
hazmat.dot.gov/
The US Government Office of Hazardous Materials includes federal, regional and local contact information and links to rules and regulations, enforcement, training and information dissemination, domestic and international standards and inter-agency cooperative activities. - Federal Emergency Management Agency – home page for emergency personnel
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/index.shtm - Federal Emergency Management Agency – U.S. Fire Administration home page
www.usfa.fema.gov/ - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Fire Research
www.fire.nist.gov/
Fire on the Web is a collection of resources from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST. These Web pages provide links to fire related software, experimental fire data and mpeg/quick time movies of fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed online. - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
www.cdc.gov/niosh/ncpc/ncpc1.html
guide to determine the compatibility of chemical protective clothing - New York State Emergency Management Office
www.dhses.ny.gov/oem
The New York State Emergency Management Office (OEM) coordinates Emergency Management Services for the State. The site provides information on planning (including an interactive program for preparing an emergency plan and a Hazard Analysis Program), education (includes a training catalog which lists courses offered in the areas of Professional Development, Incident Command, Incident Command Skills and Readiness by various agencies around the state), and resources to protect lives, property and the environment (list of emergency equipment available and loan procedures, Emergency Management Times Newsletter, Radiological Emergency Planning, Weather and links to other federal, state, and emergency related web sites. - NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control
www.dhses.ny.gov/ofpc
The OFPC operates the Fire Academy. The site includes information on New York state fire programs, state reports, training opportunities and a video lending library. - OFPC Library @ the NYS Academy of FIre Science
www.dhses.ny.gov/ofpc/training/fire-academy/library.cfm - United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
www.csb.gov/
The Board's mission is to work in concert with industry, labor and government to help prevent chemical accidents by determining and addressing their causes. - FEMA's Emergency Management Institute
training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is195lst.asp
offers a variety of independant study courses.
Media
- www.interfire.org/res_file/patterns.asp
photographs showing examples of burn patterns - www.interfire.org/res_file/reports.asp
instructions for writing a fire investigation report - includes a sample report - Virtual Reality CD
InterFIRE offers aVirtual Reality CD with includes a fire scenario, scene investigation, tutorial, best practices and resource list. The CD is available to Fire Depts for free from /www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/subjects/arson/interfire.shtm and can also be ordered online. - www.fire.org/
online fire management tools and modeling software for predicting fire behavior
Texts and Other Links
- "Fire and Civilization" by Johan Goudsblom
- "Fire Wars" (Fire in the American West), NOVA/PBS, 2002
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fire/
The website accompanying the NOVA documentary on U.S. wildfire policy since the late 1800s (using the 2000 wildfire season in the American West as its focus) offers interactive teaching modules (including a three-variable Wildfire Simulator and interactive global fire maps), links, transcript and supplementary articles including "How Plants Use Fire," by Dr. Pyne, a featured expert in the documentary.
The History of Fire
- www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/fall1998/historyfire.html
brief timeline of fire from 300 million years ago to 1997 (using recent events in Illinois as examples of fire events) from Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Fall 1998 - www.i-women.org/bibliography.php
bibliography of gender issues in the fire service - www.chicagohs.org/fire/
The Great Chicago Fire,a virtual exhibit, by the Chicago Historial Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University