Check out some of the sites of adjacent Fire Departments and other sites that we just happen to like.
Saginaw Township Fire Department: The official site, the one that Chief can approve of!
Saginaw Township Fire Department Station Three: Site has new address.
Thomas Township Fire Department: Their "official site, our two departments work closely together on structure fires, hazmat response, Specialized Rescue Team and other cooperative efforts
Consumers Energy: The best gas/electric utility around. They have helped us in the past with a number of Community Grants that helped fund the start of our Hazmat and Specialized Rescue program. They continue to assist with training efforts. The local headquarters is located at 2400 Weiss, Saginaw.
Ropes that Rescue: Sedona, AZ the best rope rescue training in the world. Reed Thorne runs a top notch company.
CHRIS: A hazardous materials reference database operated by the US Coast guard
EXTOXNET: Pesticide database, easy to use site for some of the more common pesticides/herbicides
SIRI: A database operated from the University of Vermont. Great MSDS database and other good stuff.
NPIC: National Pesticide Information Center
CDMS a great spot to locate pesticide/herbicide label/MSDS's
CDC/NIOSH: your tax dollars at work for a very good website with all sorts of information for the Fire Service, good un-biased information. Check out their CD ROM with the NIOSH Pocket Guide/NAERG.
Hazardous Material Links
Vertical Reality, Gilboa, OH the second best rope rescue site training in the world. Russ Borne has a great facility for those of us in the "flatlands".
Rope Rescue/Technical Rescue
Chemical Reactivity Worksheet, nifty program that gives you a clue what happens when you mix methyl ethyl death with I can't pronounce it
The 2008 ERG, New and improved version, Last version was published in 2004.
CAS numbers: Chemical Abstract Service, from the American Chemical Society a unique sequence of digits to identify specific chemicals. this is a link to the NIST site which is a source that is free.
Saginaw Township Fire Department Station Two: their "unofficial site."
CMC Rescue Equipment: They offer great classes and they supply equipment also.
Other Links of Interest
National Cancer Institute: Firefighters have a higher than average risk for all types of cancer. Stop smoking today and if you are unlucky and get diagnosed start here.
Michigan Doppler Radar
Just basic Doppler radar, one of the
better ones to use. Try viewing it in a loop mode
to predict when the precipitation gets here.
Terrorism Links
CDC: Centers for Disease Control, information without hysteria, good stuff on a variety of threats
FEMA: They do more than floods! Check out this web site for a variety of information, including links to the US Fire Administration
EPA waste codes, nice site that has the waste codes organized nicely. No more wondering what is a D003? Look it up here
Dave Jackson a Captain at Station 3 has a phenomenal photograph website of firefighters, fire apparatus, incidents, and many more! You can find that site here!
Bladder Cancer Web Cafe: The sort of place most of you hope never to visit. But if you have it, this is the place for information and guidance. The best BC site on the Internet.
Thanks to Wendy and all of her great work.
liMr. Fire, Great Fire graphics that I am trying out.
NEW! WebWISER from the NIH, National Institute of Health, an interactive identification tool that can be used on-line or downloaded to either a PDA or laptop. There are many interactive pull down menus, take a thorough look at this website
