NFPA Journal - November/December 2020 - 22

Faces of Fire
returns with
electrical safety
campaign

In September, NFPA
and the Phoenix
Society for Burn
Survivors launched
a new video campaign aimed at
raising awareness
of electrical hazards
in the workplace

who lost both his
hands in 2010 after
nearly 15,000 volts
of electricity surged
through his body
during an accident.
"We as power line
workers need to
see that a person
standing up for
safety is actually
more macho than
a person who's not

Specifically, the
study found that
an increase of 10
micrograms per
cubic meter of
wildfire particulate
matter in the air
was associated with
a 7 percent rise in
mortality for dialysis
patients.
The research
helps shed light on

Samoana Matagi in a new
Faces of Fire Electrical video
produced by NFPA.

and at home. The
videos are part of
the longstanding
NFPA Faces of Fire
campaign, which
originally promoted
the importance
of fire sprinklers
through the stories
of burn survivors.
"Exposure to
electricity poses a
real injury risk to
workers and the
public," said Lorraine Carli, NFPA's
vice president of
Outreach and Advocacy. "Many people
are not aware of
electrical dangers,
and yet each year
people are injured
or killed as a result
of these hazards.
The Faces of Fire
Electrical campaign
helps educate
people about the
true dangers of
electricity and ways
to prevent related
tragedies from
happening."
One of the first
two videos released
in September features Samoana
Matagi, a former
power line worker

standing up for
safety," Matagi says
in the video.
Watch all of the
videos from the new
campaign at nfpa.
org/facesoffire.

Study links
wildfire smoke
to increased
death rate in
dialysis patients

A study published
in the Journal of the
American Society
of Nephrology in
August found that
wildfire smoke is
associated with
"an immediate and
persistent increase
in mortality" for
patients receiving
dialysis treatment
for end-stage kidney
failure.
The study paints
a grim picture for
the approximately
2 million people
worldwide who
currently receive
dialysis treatment,
as wildfire frequency and severity
increase in many
countries, including
the United States.

some of the ways
wildfire can indirectly affect human
health-a topic not
well-understood but
one that was thrust
into the public consciousness over the
summer as thick
smoke blanketed
cities across the
western US, causing many people
to report breathing
difficulties and eye
irritation. According
to the American
Lung Association,
wildfire smoke can
cause breathing
difficulty in healthy
individuals even
thousands of miles
away from the fires.
Read the full
study on dialysis
patients and wildfire
smoke by going to
jasn.asnjournals.org
and searching
"wildfire."

NFPA asks for
participation
in Needs
Assessment
survey
NFPA launched
its fifth Needs

Assessment of the
United States Fire
Service survey in
September. All US
fire departments are
urged to participate,
and the deadline for
participation is January 1.
"The goal of the
Needs Assessment
project is to understand what is being
asked of fire departments and if they
have the needed
resources necessary
to carry out those
tasks," NFPA said in a
statement. The study
includes questions
on PPE, apparatus
and equipment,
training, health and
wellness, and cancer
prevention, among
other timely topics
impacting the fire
service. Findings
from the survey
serve multiple, critical purposes, such as
generating statewide
reports that can
serve as a powerful
tool for understanding and supporting a
community's needs,
and helping the US
Fire Administration
and other fire service
advocates create
programs that best
support communities' needs.
NFPA conducts its
Needs Assessment
survey every four
years. In 2016, more
robust behavioral
health services
emerged as a pressing need among
departments.
Learn more about
the 2020 survey and
how to participate
by going to nfpa.org/
needsassessment.

California
removes
employment
barrier for
former inmate
firefighters

In September, California Governor
Gavin Newsom
signed a bill allowing
former prisoners

who have served as
inmate firefighters
in the state to ask to
have their criminal
records expunged.
The move aims to
remove a critical
barrier some ex-cons
face in finding
employment in the
fire service after
prison.
"After receiving
valuable training and
placing themselves
in danger assisting
firefighters to defend
the life and property of Californians,
incarcerated individual crew members
face difficulty and
obstacles in achieving employment
due to their past
criminal record,"
the bill, authored by
California assemblywoman Eloise
Reyes, reads. "Due to
their service to the
state of California
in protecting lives
and property, those
incarcerated individual crew members
... should be granted
special consideration relating to their
underlying criminal
conviction." The
bill excludes those
convicted of violent
or sex crimes from
eligibility.
Each year, the California Department
of Forestry and Fire
Protection employs
thousands of non-violent prisoners to
help prepare for
and respond to
the state's wildfire
season. Since the
work can be dangerous and inmates are
paid just a couple
of dollars a day, the
program has come
under fire from
critics who believe
it amounts to little
more than slave
labor. Read NFPA
Journal coverage
of the controversy
during the 2018
wildfire season at
"Cellblock to Fireline," at nfpa.org/
inmatefirefighters.

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