Posts Categorized: Decision Making
The Same Mistakes: Newspaper Reports Common Issues Affecting Fire Operations
Four years after nine firefighters died battling Sofa Super Store fire, a report details an eerily similar set of breakdowns in a March blaze.
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SFFD Diamond Heights LODD Safety Violations
State investigators have cited the San Francisco Fire Department for "serious" worker safety violations in the deaths of two firefighters killed battling a Diamond Heights house fire in June
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Size-Up: Report of the Week (ROTW)
Sizing up a structure for a fire attack is a skill that takes time, practice and experience to fully develop. In some cases, if the size-up is too rapid, critical points can be overlooked.The National Fire Fighter's Near-Miss Reporting System's Report of the Week (ROTW) has some insights.
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Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports
New NIOSH LODD Reports issued from the FIRE FIGHTER FATALITY INVESTIGATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM. Are they on your radar screen?
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Tabletop Training for the Weekend “Rubbish Fire”
This special weekend edition of Ten Minutes in the Street TM is being offered on CommandSafety.com and is taking advantage of a training video produced by the LAFD in 2009 that involved a basis initial dispatch to a report of a rubbish fire that escalates into two structure fires and resulted in multiple alarm operations. Challenge your personnel and discuss and tabletop the incident scenario based on your operational and orgnizational profile and resources.
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National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting System; Untapped Resource
Have you heard about the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting System (NMRS)? Have you used the NMRS Reports, or submitted a near miss event? Did you know there is a wealth of resources available on the NMRS web site or that there is a Report of t…
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188 Days of Opportunity to make a Difference: Surviving the Fire Ground
During this week, there were on average, over 8,600 structure fires in the United States. According to NFPA statistics the following occur on average in the U.S;
A fire department responded to a fire every 23 seconds.
One structure fire was repo…
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Combat Ready and the Fire Service Warrior on Taking it to the Streets
Discussions on what is meant by embracing the philosophy of the fire service warrior, and striving for the ready position.
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Albuquerque Fire Department; Learnings from Close Call Collapse and Fire Fighter Injuries
The Albuquerque Fire Department seeks to improve operations from past performance
Four firefighters with the Albuquerque (NM) Fire Department were injured during operations at a three-alarm fire that injured raged through the Royal Crown Apartment…
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Taking it to the Streets Radio Program On Firefighter Netcast.com
Survivability Profiling Live on Taking it To the Street
Taking it to the Streets Radio Program On Firefighter Netcast.com
April 20, 2011 Show 9:00 pm – 10:15 pm ET
Live and Online Taking it to the Streets with your host Christopher N…
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The Ides of March
Operational Safety
Here are five (5) NIOSH Firefighter LODD Event report summaries for incidents that occurred in the March 4th through the 8th time frame in the years 1998, 2001, 2002, 2008.
Take the time to look over the e…
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Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…Multiple Firefighter LODDs January 23, 2005
FDNY: Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…LODD 2005
The call had come at 7:59 on a Sunday morning, the day after a January blizzard had shut down the city. There was still more than a foot of unplowed snow on East 178th Street off the G…
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Collapse of Bowstring Truss Roof Seriously Injures Fire Fighter
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The NIOSH Fire fighter Investigation and Prevention Progr…
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Taking it to the Streets: The First-Due Officer
Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for an hour with Taking it to the Streets on Firefighernetcast.com where we’ll discuss the street level issues affecting the First-Due Officer on Wednesday night November 17th at 9:00 pm EST.
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Taking it to the Streets; “Redefining the Fire Ground” Rescheduled
Many would argue that the fire ground doesn’t need to be “redefined”; that the way we do business in the Streets is just fine and that the American Fire Service knows how to get the job done, at any cost.
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NIST Study on Charleston Furniture Store Fire Calls for National Safety Improvements
Major factors contributing to a rapid spread of fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18, 2007, included large open spaces with furniture providing high fuel loads, the inward rush of air following the breaking of windows and a lack o…
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FireFighter Fatalities in 2009
The USFA recently issued the Report on Firefighter Fatalities in the Undited States for the year 2009. Ninety (90) on-duty firefighters from 33 states lost their lives as the result of incidents that occurred in 2009. Pennsylvania experienced the hig…
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Rules of Engagement 2010
The “Rules” were formally adopted by the IAFC Health, Safety and Survival Section at the Fire Rescue International Conference held last week in Chicago.
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Thursday 9pm ET: “We Have a Situation; Are You Aware?”
This month Christopher Naum and Battalion Chief Matt Tobia discuss the emerging and prevailing issues related to situational awareness.
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Transmitting the Box for an Alarm of Fire…Taking it to the Streets
Taking it to the Streets
Premiering Wednesday July 21st 9:00pm ET
Live on Firefighter Netcast.com
Premiering “What’s on YOUR Radar Screen”?
Check out what’s on of off your radar screen on CommandSafety.com
If you’ve never listened to…
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Newest NIOSH Alert: Preventing Deaths and Injuries of Fire Fighters at Structure Fires
NIOSH released it's latest Alert on Firefighter Risk Reduction. Fire fighters are often killed or injured when fighting fires in abandoned, vacant, and unoccupied structures. These structures pose additional and sometimes unique risks due to the potentia…
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Taking it to The Streets on FireFighter Netcast.com
Taking it to the Streets
With Christopher Naum
A New Monthly Radio Talkshow on FireFighter Netcast.com Premiering on Wednesday July 21 at 9pm ET
A Buildingsonfire.com Series and FireFighter Netcast.com Production
Advancing FireFi…
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What’s On Your Radar Screen?
BuildingsonFire 2010; Building Construction, Command Risk Management and Operational Safety
Major Influencing Fire Service Reports, Issues or Focus that should be on Your Radar Screen
The following list is but a modest cross section of pertinen…
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Eleven Minutes to Mayday; What You Need to Know
The Colerain Township (OH) Fire and EMS Department under the leadership of Director and Chief G. Bruce Smith recently released its final report Investigation Analysis of the Squirrels nest Lane Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths related to the Ap…
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