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This Week’s Highlights

• Fire safety – Children’s Literature – updated list: click here 
• 75 years ago – New London School Fire | March 18, 1937 | 294 fatalities |   About this incident |

Current Awareness: Weekly News Roundups – Just updated

• All-Hazards News and Information:  http://www.lrc.fema.gov/news_allhaz.html
• Fire Prevention in the News :  http://www.lrc.fema.gov/news_fireprev.html  

LRC RSS Feed Digest :

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• Most of the USA is at low risk for spring flooding
• Local Public Health Preparedness for Radiological and Nuclear Incidents
• Tornado Tech: What If Dorothy Had A Smartphone?
• Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response
• Why protecting interior exposure is vital for firefighter safety
• Tornado deaths raise questions about mobile home safety
• Flooding Facebook – the use of social media during the Queensland and Victorian floods

LRC Fire Prevention Feed Digest :

• Frostburg officials must decide on home sprinkler systems
• Class teaches fire safety to Lejeune residents
• NFPA Journal interviews new U.S. Fire Administrator
• Over 20,000 smoke alarms tested in the TVOKids “Push the Button” campaign
• 75 years ago – New London School Fire, March 18, 1937 – 295 fatalities

New at the LRC Last Week

• Fire service online titles
• All-hazard online titles
• All new library materials (109 new items this week)
• EFO Papers

Selected Fire/EMS/Emergency Mngt topics:

• Arson
• Campus safety
• Codes
• Disaster planning/preparedness
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Medical Services 
• Emergency response
• Emergency vehicles/design
• Extrication
• Fire behavior
• Fire Prevention
• Fire Protection
• Fire Service/Fire Departments
• Fire statistics/research
• Firefighter Fatalities/Health/Safety
• Firefighting Ops/Incident Command
• Funding/Grants
• HazMat
• Homeland Security
• Human Behavior in fires
• Interagency Cooperation
• Leadership/Personnel Management
• Lessons Learned/Fire Histories/Close calls
• Mass casualties
• Mass Evacuation 
• Natural disasters
• Public Health
• Rescue Operations
• Resiliency/Critical Infrastructure
• Risk communications/social media
• Risk evaluation/management
• Terrorism
• Training – Fire Service
• Training – Emergency Mngt
• Wildfires