Prevention and Mitigation Advocacy for Small Department Responders. National FireAcademy. Student Manual. First Edition

摘要

Prevention and Mitigation Advocacy for Small Department Responders (PMSD) is thesecond in a series of outreach prevention/mitigation courses ideally suited to the needs of America's smallest departments, those in communities serving several hundred to several thousand populations. In this second course the authors begin to shift from motivation to insight, from awareness and advocacy to action. During this course, participants identify responsibilities, recognize allies and detractors, and analyze how the political environment influences a community's 'acceptable level of risk': those issues of public policy that elected and appointed officials knowingly or unknowingly accept. Attendees more clearly identify the role of the fire service in a community's overall scheme of risk reduction. They develop strategies to locate, secure, and use newly discovered resources to bring about a change in the way small-town America can become proactive about fire and injury prevention.