{"id":2409,"date":"2010-08-26T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2010-08-26T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:16:51","slug":"long-beach-fire-department-hosts-august-s-a-f-e-r-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Fire Department Hosts August S.A.F.E.R. Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>Thursday, August 26, 2010<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject:\u00a0 Long Beach Fire Department Hosts August S.A.F.E.R. Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the morning of August 25, 2010, the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) hosted the Southern Area Firefighter&#8217;s Equipment Research (SAFER) Meeting at our Fire Training Center.\u00a0 The SAFER organization is a regional association between manufacturers, vendors, and Firefighters looking at means to increase firefighter safety and efficiency through innovative new products and equipment.\u00a0 Started in 1976, LBFD is one of the association\u2019s first charter members.\u00a0 Fire department personnel from other agencies such as Newport Beach Fire, Downey Fire, and Los Angeles County Fire were also in attendance and toured our facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the topics this meeting specifically looked at was the recent enhancements made to our training facility.\u00a0 A state of the art microwave link system has allowed our Headquarters, Training Center, and Downey Fire Headquarter to videoconference simultaneously for a myriad of uses.\u00a0 During the testing of this system, participants were at each of the three venues. The system is designed to allow us to host regional training classes and conferences at our Training Center with other agencies at the same time using the hi-tech audio and video equipment.\u00a0 This is just one of the many ways that the Long Beach Fire Department is utilizing Federal Grant monies to better our department\u2019s capabilities and ultimately provide for a safer community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:\u00a0 Thursday, August 26, 2010 \u00a0 Subject:\u00a0 Long Beach Fire Department Hosts August S.A.F.E.R. Meeting \u00a0 On the morning of August 25, 2010, the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) hosted the Southern Area Firefighter&#8217;s Equipment Research (SAFER) Meeting at our Fire Training Center.\u00a0 The SAFER organization is a regional association between manufacturers, vendors, and Firefighters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}