Posts Categorized: Company Officer
Leadership Got Your Department Boogered Up?
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Across the world I bet if you sat around the table on the tailboard of an apparatus or at any conference you would hear some folks that ar…
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Adaptive Fireground Management for Company and Command Officers: FDIC 2012
New insights into emerging concepts and methodologies related to the challenges that arise while fighting today’s structural fires on the evolving fireground.
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The Ides of March: Learning and Remembrance
Take the opportunity to identify the common themes and apparent causes of some past events.
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2012 Les Lukert Conference, Nebraska Society of Fire Service Instructors
Exceptional Training opportunities at the 2012 Les Lukert Conference, Nebraska
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Second Alarm Apartment Fire, VA
Strategy and Tactics at Garden Apartment Complex and Residencies required special instructions, insights and knowledge that goes well beyond the practices and methodologies typically deployed at single family residential fire incidents.
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Apartment Complex Under Construction: Rapid Deployment and Operations
Safety and accountability are high priorities at multiple alarm incidents involving a construction site. A rapidly advancing fire in an apartment building complex under construction was managed and controlled without incident. How prepared are you and your company?
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Required Reading: Impact of Ventilation on Fire Behavior in Legacy and Contemporary Residential Construction
Another must read for all Company and Command Officers: Impact of ventilation on fire behavior in legacy and contemporary residential construction from UL. Take some time to increase your proficiencies and compentencies.
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Checking your Compass
As a Company Officer; have you checked your compass lately? Do you know where you are?
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Tactical Operations and Combat Fire Engagement with Go >Forward Training
The demands of today's fire ground require new perspectives built upon the decades of practices and methodologies and the emerging new rules of combat fire engagement. Are you up for the challenge?
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Credentials versus Competence
Credentials vs. Competence. Kevin Milan asks the question and provides the insights. Education and experience are important, but both must be updated throughout your fire service career.
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Ten Minutes in the Street: The First-Due
This edition of Ten Minutes in the Street TM is looking at the considerations for the first-due engine company upon arrival at a well involved single family residential house fire. Arrivals and subsequent deployments during night time periods pose ever increasing challenges to arriving officers in the ability to ascertain and recognize factors that will have a direct or ancillary affect in the developing incident action plan, tactics and task assignments.
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Training this Fall: A Must for the Emerging and Practicing Fire Officer & Commander
CommandSafety.com and TheCompanyOfficer.com will be participating in both the inaugural Gateway Midwest Fire & Leadership Conference and the Liberty Regional Fire and Leadership Conference this fall. Check out the exceptional training programs being offered and be there.
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Tonight on Taking it to the Streets: The New Fire Ground and the First-Due
Tune in to tonight's edition of Taking it to the StreetsTM where the program will be looking at the New Fire Ground and the First-Due
Joining the program will be two special guests: Division Chief Ed Hadfield (CA) and Deputy Chief Jason Hoevelmann (MO) providing a great opportunity to listen to perspectives from coast to coast and the heartland.
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Deployment Decisions: Defining Operations on the First-Due
First-due company operations are influenced by a number of parameters and factors; some deliberate and dictated, others prescribed and prearranged and yet others subjective, biased, predisposed or at times accidental, casual and emotional. For many of …
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Building Knowledge=Fire Fighter Safety
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Modern incident demands on the fireground are unlike those of the recent past requiring incident commanders and commanding officers to …
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Near-Miss Report of the Week
As an officer, you need to stay abreast of operational issues and situations in order to be knowledgeable and conversant with the variables that may affect company deployments and subsequent operations.
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Texas Captain; 2010 LODD Report Issued with Lessons Learned
Captain Araguz, a 30 year old, 11-year veteran of the Wharton Volunteer Fire Department made Captain in 2009.
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Company Officer Problem-Solving
A Company Officer is responsible for accomplishing many things. There are two critical skills that help with completion of tasks: knowing how to allocate the proper resources to solve needs and to determine if you alone, or others, are needed to solve a problem.
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Mayday and Rapid Intervention Realities: The Phoenix Perspective
One of the major objectives of this year's theme was addressing a variety of functional areas for the Mayday event.
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Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home
Courage to Be Safe®: Chicago Fire Department
NFFF - A preview of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation film, Chicago Fire Department - Everyone Goes Home, directed by Rob Maloney. From the EGH website;
In 2008, the FDNY allowed an NFFF film …
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Front Seat Responsibilities; On Both the LEFT and RIGHT Sides
Front Seat Responsibilities Artwork by Paul Combs All Rights Reserved
A few days ago I posted an article entitled here on TCO: Front Seat Responsibilities; On Both the LEFT and RIGHT Sides, however the original article was lost as a result of the site…
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SFFD Firefighter Memorials and Updates
More details emerged Monday about last week’s fatal Diamond Heights blaze, as fire officials said an emergency alert accidentally went off on a nearby fire engine about the same time two firefighters’ personal alarms sounded inside the burning buildi…
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San Francisco FD mourns the loss of a Second Firefighter LODD After Diamond Heights Fire
San Francisco firefighter Anthony Valerio is the second firefighter to die from Thursday's Diamond Heights fire. According to San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Valerio had "significant damage to his respiratory system" and burns across his body after Thursday's fire.
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Thank You
On this Memorial Day, 2011......Thank You...,
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