The United States Fire Administration has partnered with the International Association of Fire Fighters to provide an updated communications guide for fire service members to replace Fire Department Communications Manual - A Basic Guide to System Concepts and Equipment (FA-160). The new guide, Voice Radio Communications Guide for the Fire Service, provides up-to-date information on communications technology and discusses critical homeland security issues and concepts, such as SAFECOM, that did not exist when the original manual was first published. It also provides baseline familiarity with basic communications issues such as hardware, policy and procedures, and human interface.

The guide is available for download at https://www.usfa. dhs.gov/media/ press/2008releas es/120108. shtm