- Author
- Johnson Foundation
- Title
- Wingspread Conference on Fire Service Administration, Education and Research. Statements of National Significance to the Fire Problem in the United States. February 1966.
- Coporate
- Johnson Foundation, Racine, WA
- Book or Conf
- Johnson Foundation. Wingspread Conference on Fire Service Administration, Education and Research. Statements of National Significance to the Fire Problem in the United States. Proceedings. February 1966, 16 p., 1966
- Keywords
- education | fire research | fire departments
- Identifiers
- public is complacent toward the rising trend of life and property loss by fire; there is a serious lack of communication between the public and the fire service; behavior patterns of the public have a direct influence on the fire problem; insurance interest has exerted a strong influence on the organization of the fire service; professional status begins with education; scope, degree and depth of the educational requirements for efficient functioning of the fire service must be examined; increased obility at the executive level of the fire service will be important to the achievement of professional status; carrer development of the fire executive must be systematic and deliberate; governing bodies and municipal administrators generally do not recognize the need for executive development of the fire officer; fire service labor and management, municipal officers and administrators must join together if professionalism is to become a reality; traditional concept that fire protection is strictly a responsibility of local government must be re-examined