Posts Categorized: Engine Company
Buffing in Buffalo
Lloyd Mitchell with Two Houses Working
Conditions were so bad that the arriving companies went defensive right away.
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Hazing Leads to Arrest of Three Firefighters in Vermont
It is an occurrence that has become all too familiar: a group of young firefighters set out with the intention of hazing a younger member, but in the end the hazers end up arrested.
The latest occurrence was in Vermont involving members of the Hyde Pa…
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Ohio Close Calls
Blaming Radios and Remembering Past Tragedy
Relying blindly on technology without incorporating behavioral changes is like giving an M40 to someone who has never fired a rifle in their lives and expecting them to put every round in the 10-ring. It’s not going to happen.
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Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks
"[The fireground] moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. " Ferris Bueller, kinda.
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Snohomish County Working:
Rescue Off Balcony
Okay, so this isn't someone straddling the window sill with that rich brownish, grayish smoke pulsing out over him, but imagine pulling up to this with just you, your driver and one firefighter in the back. What's your game-plan?
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Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire
"I believe I'm at the stairwell on the Walnut Street side, but I'm stuck in here. On the fire floor, can't get out of this spot and I'm burning up in here."
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Pasadena Working: Transitional Attack
Remember, you can't call a "time out."
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The Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”
The area of refuge only applies to truckies forcing apartment doors, correct?
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Squad Co.18 Working:
Top Floor Fire on Lower East Side
Video from Manhattan two-alarm fire and related material on truck company operations and ventilation.
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Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More
Video from Rescue Officer answers critics about delay in getting water on the fire and shows that chasing kinks is everyone's job. Where is that firm benchmark that says you must have water on the fire by __ time?
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Pennsylvania Firefighter Charged With Indecent Assault on Junior
A 20 year old volunteer firefighter from Pennsylvania has been charged with indecent assault for sexually assaulting a junior firefighter last year. Joseph Traino, of the Chambers Hill Fire Company, was in court yesterday on charges that date back to O…
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Spaghetti
You are an engine company, not an Italian restaurant.
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Stockton, California Working:
A Little ‘Shot in The Arm’ for the Fire Service
You have a job to do. Get it done.
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D.C. Working: Southeast House Fire.
Notice the Stretches.
Not much fire in the video, but two damn good examples of a hoseline stretch.
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Real World Staffing
Required Reading for The Front Seat Program on Firefighter Netcast
We'll be talking about the nation's only 2-man ladder company. What? You say there are other minimum staffed companies out there? No way!
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“We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
Engine 42 Lieutenant Catches Boy and Provides Training Questions for Engine Companies
Lieutenant's catch helps us give you some valuable questions your engine company should try and answer - before the fire.
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Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.1:
Gastonia, North Carolina
NC engine company sets up their hosebed to make the best use of not only their three-man crew, but the second-due three-man engine company as well.
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“Expect Fire” New Haven
After Medic-Local, Engine 11 Comes Across Working Fire and Makes a Rescue
After not finding a patient the engine company heads home. On the way, they see people pointing to smoke coming from an apartment window.
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“Expect Fire” Early Footage of Chicago Multiple Alarm on Weekday Afternoon
Only a block away from quarters, Engine 22 has an afternoon full of fire and first line choices.
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Volunteer Firefighter Faces Serious Sexual Misconduct Charges Over Prank
A volunteer firefighter is in serious trouble in Pennsylvania for what appears to have been a highly inappropriate prank involving a minor. Chad Richey, 29, of the Citizen’s Hose Company No. 1 in Glassport, has been charged with sexual abuse of …
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NY Suit Alleges Sodomy Hazing Induction In Fire Department
A bizarre story is emerging from Piermont, New York where a father is alleging that his son was sodomized as part of a ritualized hazing of new members in a volunteer fire department.
Mark Bernstein has filed suit against the Village of Piermont and t…
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But The 2-1/2 Is Soooooo Hard to Move…
"If the reason why you don't use the 2 1/2 is because it is difficult to move, you are insulting the generations of firefighters before you, when that was all they had." Batt. Chief Gerry Tracy, FDNY
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Victim Survivability Profiling.
A Clarification
“Every situation is a situation” and the fire you are responding to is one that you are seeing for the first time.
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PA Captain Accused of Having Sex with 13 Year Old Junior Firefighter in Station
A Carlisle, Pennsylvania fire captain has been accused of sexually assaulting a 13 year of female junior firefighter. Dana Franklin Jr., 22, has been charged with statutory sexual assault, indecent assault, and endangering the welfare of children. He w…
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John Salka and the Transitional Attack