Finding time to train is difficult. Finding time to tackle all the trainings required of emergency services is overwhelming. To help, we've added a Department Training Guide in our online DFC Resource Library. This printable resource (Monthly Drill Calendar) schedules
Gift giving season is upon us! While the joy of giving is a reward, the tasks of choosing what to give is the challenge. For that hard-to-buy-for, hard-working fire service person, Dinges Fire Company is here to help. Here is
One of the committees directing the business of a fire department is the Foreign Fire Insurance Tax Board or FFIB. Known by other names like Foreign Fire, 2% Board, 2% Fund, etc., this group determines how best to utilize the
October is National Fire Prevention Month with Fire Prevention Week falling Oct. 9-15, 2022. For many departments that means a week of touring elementary students around the fire house or judging a coloring contest. Spreading awareness of fire prevention can
Training, workshops, keynote speakers, vendor booths and thousands of fellow fire service professionals greet everyone attending FDIC International. Dinges Fire Company's Nicholas C. Dinges, CEO, Bethany O'Connell, CMO, and Jeff Bryant, COO offer 10 ways to get the most out
Harrison Township, Michigan – Walk a treadmill for 30 minutes. Take a HITT class. Repeat. Day after day after day. Read any fitness blog and boredom is ranked as a top reason people stop exercising. James Plieth and Letty Azar,
Derek Feuss (left) and Nicholas C. Dinges, CEO Dinges Fire Company (right) complete the acquisition of Fox Fire Apparatus Repair & Maintenance by DFC. Wyoming, Iowa – Dinges Fire Company (Amboy, Ill) recently acquired Fox Apparatus Repair &
Jeff Bryant, Dinges Fire Company's COO, started writing grants in 2000 for his fire department in Amboy, Ill. Unfunded mandates, increasing regulations, and a stagnant tax base forced him into the role of department fundraiser. It is a role many
In the decade following September 11, 2001, Andy Shapiro of Vanguard passed the same memorial often. This well-kept remembrance to FDNY firefighter Michael Kiefer kept the promise so many Americans made on 9-11, ‘never forget’. Turns out Shapiro knew Kiefer’s
