Posts Categorized: Firefighter Safety Health
Chief suspended over PPE issue at vehicle fire. Firefighters resign saying no confidence. The story from Friday Harbor, Washington.
Chief now on medical leave following two day suspension.
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Honesty is ALWAYS the Best Policy…Lesson Hopefully Learned by Chief Taylor in High Point, NC
As I have observed during my tenure in the fire service Fire Chiefs are always under scrutiny. Due to that fact, it is very difficult to cover up lies and half truths.
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Must see videos: Scores of explosions at Collingdale, Pennsylvania welding shop fire. Employees injured. Two old fire trucks destroyed.
Blasts forced evacuation of homes in the area.
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Meeting A Messenger On A Mission!
Rob has a passion. It is hazardous materials. Within that, he has a passion for the hazardous effects of smoke on civilians and firefighters.
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Funeral Arrangements Announced for Deputy Chief Jeff Thompson
GOOSE CREEK - Jeffery Andrew Thompson, 32, husband of Brandy Reeves Thompson, of Goose Creek, SC, died Saturday, August 28, 2010. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, September 2, 2010, at Pine Ridge Fire Department at 4 o'clock. Burial will…
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Guns & hoses: A redo. Take 2 has more details & videos thanks to BainbridgeGA.com.
Videos showing firefighting in Georgia.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news fro Tuesday.
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Guns & hoses in three parts
A trio of interesting videos.
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Fireground audio from 4-alarm hi-rise fire in Houston with reported mayday. At least 5 firefighters hurt. Standpipe issues.
Fire was on the 27th floor.
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Airbags in the Dark
So, when you drill for these, lift something, anything, like pallets with full visibility. Watch what happens to the opposite side of the lift and make notes. When you get into the dark you will have to crib, raise, and lower all by feel. Oh, and up on red and down on blue is difficult at best.
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Engine 51 taking shape
Day 2 in the new digs and it's going well.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Monday.
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Shining through Suffering – Learning How to Cope with Sadness in EMS
Dealing with the level of sadness we see in EMS isn't something that comes naturally. It's a learned skill. Take your time and find your way. We're all nothing but human.
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Firefighter Killed in Farming Accident
TOWNVILLE - A longtime volunteer fireman from Townville who had also worked for Clemson University was killed Friday in an accident involving a hay baler. Jimmy Boleman, a farmer himself, was baling hay at a friend’s farm on O’Neal Ferry Road in To…
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Fatal wreck in Hardeeville
HARDEEVILLE - A Beaufort man died Thursday after his sports car and a refrigerated delivery truck collided head on in the Okatie area of Hardeeville. Architect Randy Boyles "Brandy" Long, 56, died instantly after the truck, owned by W-East Trading Corp.…
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38 Buildings To Burn:
“Johnny Reb”
A Backstep Firefighter double-header looks at Ogden Utah's live burn opportunity.
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38 Buildings To Burn:
“Billy Yank”
A Backstep Firefighter double-header looks at Ogden Utah's live burn opportunity.
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Deputy Chief Jeff Thompson Passes
BREAKING NEWS>>
PINE RIDGE - Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Thompson, of Pine Ridge Fire District, has passed away this morning of a reported heart attack. Chief Thompson is the older brother to Charleston Firefighter Brandon Thompson who perished in the …
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Which Way is Out?
This may seem a bit simplistic, but I am always surprised when I ask someone to close their eyes and hand this prop to them. After I hand them the hose I ask which way they would go to get out of a building?
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After the Fire; How Do FF’s Cope?
CHARLESTON - They are often the first ones called to the scene in emergency situations where death and destruction are par for the course. But it has only been in the past three years that firefighters in the Charleston metro area have had an organizatio…
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Local Man Dies in Plane Crash
ANDREWS - A McClellanville man died Wednesday in the second fatal aviation crash in Georgetown County in less than a year.
Richard H. Gross, 66, died when the small plane he was piloting went down in a wooded area adjacent to the Andrews Airport at a…
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Woman Dies in Wreck With SC Trooper
LANCASTER COUNTY - At least one person is dead following a wreck involving a state trooper which happened in Lancaster County late Wednesday night.
The accident occurred around 11:29 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 521 and North Corner Road which …
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Family of Fire Victims Speaks Out
NORTH CHARLESTON - A day after a mother and her twin sons died in a fire at their West Ashley home, the rest of their family is in mourning. Randy Brown is having a hard time thinking about the fact his sister and nephews are gone. (more...)
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Iva Home Damaged By Fire
IVA - Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that did heavy damage Wednesday to a house in Iva. Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson said the blaze, on Johnny Long Road off S.C. 81 South, was called in by a firefighter from Starr.
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