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Fire service
- Commercial structure fires: Changing our mindset
- Conflagration innovation: How Spokane (Washington) Regional Emergency Communications turbocharged its catastrophic fire response
- Industrial firefighting: Fortifying the fire brigades
- Occupancy classifications and parking structures: Fire protection's latest burning question
- Old, inadequate, unsafe
- The role of executive fire officers in building a resilient community
Emergency medical services
- Adaption of a trigger tool to identify harmful incidents, no harm incidents, and near misses in prehospital emergency care of children
- Factors affecting emergency medical dispatchers decision making in stroke calls – a qualitative study
- Impact of collegiate football games on emergency response intervals: A case study of College Station, Texas (USA)
- Optimizing care pathways: A study of the urgent dispatch program and its impact on emergency department visits
- Sepsis management in pre-hospital care
Emergency management
- The challenges of decision-making in emergency management, the cognitive aids people use and the decision-making training they receive
- Compound crisis communication and household preparedness: Examining the effects of evidence type and crisis message fatigue
- Preparedness and emergency response strategies for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear emergencies in disaster management: A qualitative systematic review
- Scoping review: Understanding the barriers and drivers of risk management in local governments
- Use of standard operating procedures for supporting cross-organizational emergency management: Challenges and opportunities identified from a tabletop exercise