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Quick takes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OWHK3AMJds&hl=en&fs=1]Know your triple-combination pumpers: This is one of 17-parts of the 1949 film Know Your Fire Department featuring LAFD. Click here to access the rest of the film and a unique look at…
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Range Report: Random Observations
Random musings from the gun range:1. Five rounds of five stand with a 12 gauge over/under will make your shoulder a wee bit sore. But it's a good sore. It may take me a few boxes of clays to get my swing back, but my last round was 17/25, and if it weren…
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I LOL'ed
From comments on my Barack Hussein Obama post:"...Never has there been an assault on the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution. I do ask everyone to read it before suggesting that owning a fully automatic 30 round clip weapon somehow is defending their fa…
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Anatomy Of A Truck Fire
THE CAB OF A SEMI-TRACTOR TRAILER caught on fire while traveling along Interstate 71 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday afternoon around 2 pm. The driver heard a loud "bang" and pulled over onto the shoulder right away. Witnesses said that they saw the ri…
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Learning From Your Performance – Conshohocken
Like a Warren Buffett quote used recently to in relation to the economic crisis says, "When the tide goes out, you see who's been swimming naked". Is your department shining the light of truth on its failures as well as the successes?
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Morning Lineup – January 24
It looks like the driving dimwits have come up with a new method to screw things up for the rest of us. It's called, Yielding-to-only-one-emergency-vehicle. Twice this month we have learned about incompetent drivers who have pulled out into traffic a…
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Before there was 911, there was 116. That, and much more about the Los Angeles Fire Department of 1949 are unearthed in this treasure of a film.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG0r68CT1JI&hl=en&fs=1]When I posted the entry below about the truck companies of 60-years-ago, I didn't fully realize it was part of a film about the Los Angeles Fire Department. "Know Your Fire Department…
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The truck company is your friend. Get up close and personal with a ladder company of 60-years-ago. Another history lesson from Los Angeles.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0rnwWjlfeg&hl=en&fs=1]This really needs no explanation. Just watch and enjoy.
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Another brilliant arsonist caught on tape setting himself on fire (and his car).
A week ago FireGeezer posted a story of a man who set his clothes on fire while trying to torch a warehouse with his buddies in Broward County, Florida. The video above is from last May in the UK, but the burned man has just been sentenced to four years.…
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Must see video: Church roof collapse in Brazil captured on video. Nine killed and more than 100 were injured on Sunday.
About 400 people were inside Sao Paulo's largest church Sunday evening when the roof collapsed. Nine of them died and 113 were injured. It happened in the evangelical Reborn in Christ Christian Church.A camera inside the church caught the collapse. Read …
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Shadows…
My girl NinjaMedic wrote recently about her Shadows... I think most of us have those shadows. Those memories of patients, those people. Young, old, sometimes in-between who leave their mark on you forever.
You never forget them.
She was 13-years-ol…
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Two-alarm service station fire in Falls Church, Virginia area. (Dave actually makes it to a fire in his first due.)
A fire late Friday morning heavily damaged a service station at the corner of Route 50 and Annandale Road in the Falls Church, Virginia area. Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department spokesman Lt. Raul Castillo says the fire started in a service bay …
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Keeping People
Got any bright ideas?
Here's a link to a FirefighterNation discussion started by a firefighter struggling to maintain the membership in his volunteer fire department.
"In my group we have people that come and don't show up for 6 months; people who quit due to other members ill behavior and misconduct - and people who stay and do as they are told.
What do we do to keep members and to have the members come back?"
Join the Recruiters Group on FFN and chime in on the chat: Keeping People
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Arrangements for Firefighter Joseph Quigley, Dale City VFD
Below is a press release from Dale City VFD Assistant Chief Steve Chappell. Firefighter Joseph Quigley died Tuesday in an automobile accident in Maryland:FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR FIREFIGHTER JOSEPH QUIGLEYDale City Volunteer Fire Department Mourns the Lo…
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Fire Dynamics comes to MFRI
Executive Development Seminar: Fire Dynamics for the Fire ServiceThursday, February 19, 20099:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute4500 Paint Branch Parkway College Park, MD 20742301-226-9900 or 1-800-ASK-MFRIFeaturing:Daniel Madrzykowski…
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"A scammer in chief's clothing"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13hnkTDigI0&hl=en&fs=1]The quote in the headline is from Arnold Diaz, the in-your-face, long-time TV consumer reporter from New York. The last time we ran one of Diaz's stories was in July, 2007, on a nasty…
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Aw Hell…
I am a bad bad friend.
You see, someone I happen to adore had a birthday yesterday. A milestone birthday.
And I forgot. Completely. *hangs head in shame*
Forgive me, MedicMatthew. Happy 30th Birthday Dude! I owe you an alcoholic beverage of …
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Shamwow, or Wow Of A Sham?
BY NOW, MOST OF YOU HAVE SEEN the television commercial for a towel-like product called Shamwow. The play on words implicates that the product has a moisture-removing quality similar to a chamois cloth.
The video plug shows some irritating personality…
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Delivery Van Plows Into Group Of Kids
A DRIVERLESS DELIVERY VAN IN NEW YORK CITY drove itself into a group of pre-schoolers walking down the sidewalk Thursday, killing 2 of them and injuring 11 others, one critically.
Associated Press
The accident happened in the Chinatown district on East…
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