Posts Categorized: Close Calls
Timely Monday Morning Training
“One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six who jumped in the rear, we need massive EMS here.”
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Wingnut of the Week: Homeowner Says Firefighter’s Gear Set Off Explosion That Severely Burned Them
Howabout we leave the flap settings, ILS intercepts, and all that other cockpitting crap to you, and let us do the firefighting and the associated investigation into an incident that nearly killed four of us.
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Fully Engulfed Meteor: You Make the Call
Does your department have an SOG for this? If none exists, then you are in luck. If you are a firefighter looking for a bugle, or a bugle looking for a band, here’s golden opportunity to prove you are a self-starter, a problem solver, a go-getter.
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360 Burn Size-up of the Fire Web- 1/21/2010
Three horrific apparatus accidents, maydays go unanswered, and a great website to stay on top of VA Task Force 2 in Haiti- all in today's 360 Burn.
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The Ghosts of Fires Past
Again, more tangible proof that the Worcester 6 (and others like them) have not died in vain...
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360 Burn Size-up of the Fire Web 12/12/09
Finally, bugles and bagpipes for the New Haven 20 - Fire destroys a building that stood since before the war (The Revolutionary War) - Ladder bailout video show the value of training - all on today's 360 Burn.
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AMR Ambulance Crash in Tampa Last Night
An AMR ambulance was involved in a near head-on crash last night in Tampa, FL while responding to a medical call.
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“I’m the World’s Oldest Proby…”
At 61, retired Pastor Starts Over as Rookie with Suburban Chicago Fire Department
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Excellent Video of Syracuse Mayday
Two Bailouts in 24 Hours Less than 20 hours before a Yonkers, N.Y. firefighter lost his life bailing out of a third floor window, the Syracuse, N.Y. Fire Department nearly lost one of theirs during an eerily similar bailout early Thursday morning.…
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Yonkers, NY LODD FF Patrick Joyce
While his wife and two young daughters were nestled in their beds at home, daddy was crawling into a burning bedroom to search for and rescue trapped children he didn’t know. Tragically, daddy is never coming home. 39-year old Patrick Joyce died ea…
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Don’t Catch Fire Teaching Fire Prevention
It’s October, the month of “Fire Prevention Week”. Time to dust off our PR skills and show the taxpayers how good we are. Or not.
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The Disturbing Consequences of an Ongoing Nightmare
A suburban Chicago firefighter stands to collect $850,000.00 to settle a sexual harassment and discrimination suit filed more than three years ago. According to a report in today’s Chicago Tribune, Oak Lawn firefighter Sharon Januszewski complained th…
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Nicknames
So we find ourselves sitting around the kitchen table patiently waiting for someone to make the first move to clean up the dishes, and digesting Scotty’s Garlic Stoup- of which none is left. Perhaps drunk off the stuff, one of the guys burps then bl…
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Really Really Private Firefighter
“I don’t get paid to sit around playing pinochle, I get paid by the fire.” “…always washin’ their trucks…” -J
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“360 Burn” Fire Web Size-up
One Firefighter’s View of Items Worth Your Time Forcing Entry If you don’t have the opportunity to do some real truck work very often, your skills make suffer due to the lack of experience. How quickly and efficiently you can force ent…
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