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The objectives of this Division shall be to further enhance the education of all Fire Service Administrative Support by conducting workshops and seminars; to increase the proficiency of Fire Administrative Support by establishing a network sharing of information systems through various channels of communication; and to faciliate a statewide standardization wherever possible in all phases and aspects of the Fire Administrative Support field for the benefit of the Fire Service.

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Posted: Oct 26, 2016
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Hi Everyone,

The WFAS Section now has a Facebook group for our members! Be sure to check it out and add yourself to the group and help us spread the word!

Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wafireadmin/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

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Posted: Aug 17, 2016
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Thank you to everyone that completed our recent WFAS Survey on the 2016 Conference. We use that information to make each year's conference better than the last! 

Congrats to Cari Ross-Koler from Stevens 1 Fire Rescue as the survey drawing winner!

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Posted: Jun 15, 2016
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If you have pictures from the 2016 Conference in Leavenworth, we would love for you to share them on our website!

Once logged in, click on Photo Gallery and scroll to the bottom of the page. There is an easy-to-use photo uploader for you to send us your pictures!

A tutorial has also been uploaded to our Documents, Website Tutorials folder.

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Posted: Jun 14, 2016
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Thank you to all our WFAS members that were able to attend this past year's conference in Leavenworth! For those of you that missed out, a few highlights included lessons learned from a number of local Fire Chiefs on recent Washington State disasters we have encountered, tips for adapting to change, {WOODY}, and the highly popular casino night!

Your 2016 WFAS Board is already hard at work planning for the 2017, 2018 and even 2019 conferences! We will be meeting this friday in Cle Elem to gather our ideas and put our heads together. 

We have put together a survey for all members, to gather feedback on the recent conference, as well as overall suggestions. If you have not already, please follow this link to fill it out: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8V3LBDJ. The deadline is this Friday, June 17th to be entered in the drawing for WFAS merch for filling out the survey. 

If you missed out in Leavenworth, don't forget to Save the Date and put the 2017 WFAS Annual Conference on your calendars for May 8-10 in Olympia.

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Posted: Apr 9, 2015
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2015 NOMINATIONS/POSITIONS

Do you want to get involved? Do you seek out opportunities to impact change? WFAS has many ways to get involved and each year we have Board positions that are vacated.  Click to find out more!
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Posted: Mar 10, 2015
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WFC Fire Administrative Support (WFAS) recognizes that some departments do not have the budget available for their administrative staff to attend section functions.  Knowing the benefits of continuing education, increasing workplace proficiency and the value of network sharing, we have created a scholarship fund to assist these individuals. Money collected from the raffle at our annual conference each year funds this program.  The scholarship is designed to cover, or assist with, registration fees and/or travel & lodging costs for the recipients to attend section functions.

The following is a guideline for disbursement of these funds:

  1. Interested WFAS members shall fill out the application and forward it to the Scholarship Chair.
  2. The application shall include a written summary as to the reason for the request.
  3. Priority for funds usage will be toward registration; if scholarship funds are still available after grants are made, funds will be applied to other conference costs, ie. lodging, travel expenses, etc, dependent upon need and availability. 
  4. The Chair will appoint a committee to review all applications and select an applicant(s) to receive scholarship funds.
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Posted: Jul 1, 2014
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First Responder Building Mapping Information System (aka “School Mapping” and “CIPMS”)

As you are aware, WASPC notified you on June 10, 2016 that due to a funding shortage, Washington’s Critical Incident Planning and Mapping System (aka “school mapping”) would be suspended effective June 30, 2016. The Governor’s Office has made emergency funding available to enable us to continue the program through state fiscal year 2017, which begins July 1, 2016 and ends June 30, 2017. Because of this funding, the school mapping program will continue in its current form through that time period.

Although this funding provides a bridge to continue the program, there is no guarantee that program funding will be available after June 30, 2017. WASPC will again request that the legislature provide stable and ongoing funding for school safety programs.

We obviously heard from some stakeholders who were concerned regarding the proposed shutdown of the school mapping program. These stakeholders urged us to find a way to continue the program. We would ask those concerned about the continued viability of the program to become active during the legislative process and make your concerns known to legislators and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

We will be making internal adjustments to the program during the next few days. These will be aimed at strengthening the current program, reaching out to a variety of stakeholders, and trying to increase the actual usage of the program by end users both in the schools and within the police, fire, and emergency medical venues. We believe that the Governor’s provision of emergency funding should result in our full efforts to fully utilize the system and make every effort to have it in use for robust planning, training, tabletop exercises, and, if needed, real world responses. WASPC is committed to making this happen.

In the next few days, WASPC will outline our personnel changes and the planned activities we think will improve the service we provide and encourage usage of the system. When we convey the changes to you, we would appreciate your feedback. What can we do to help you utilize the system more thoroughly; increase the profile of the system to your personnel; provide training to your needs; make system or application changes that allow you easier access to the desired end result of increasing school safety?
I look forward to working with all of you as we move forward with this program. Our goal is to provide improved school safety support and to better integrate all aspects of school safety with the interface between school staff, students, emergency responders, and the general public.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2016,
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