Posts Categorized: Firefighter
Chicago Fire Department: Everyone Goes Home (official version)
In an effort to make personal safety a top priority, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) today released a new video, Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home®.
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Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983
Remembering Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983
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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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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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Standpipe Systems and Operational Insights
Standpipe Systems, Select Case Studies, Incident Reports, LODD Investigations and Operational Insights for Firefighter Safety and Operational Excellence
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Gypsum Board Ceiling Systems and Firefigher Safety
The recent events in Los Angeles and the line of duty death of veteran LAFD Firefighter Glenn Allen who died Friday from injuries he sustained when a ceiling collapsed on him in a house fire late Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills again gives us paus…
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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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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?
"Is that the best you can do?" Those seven words are so simple, yet when asked of ourselves and others, can become so powerful. Is what you're doing in your EMS career the "best" you can do? Think of what we could accomplish if all simply "tried our best".
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Automatic Window Roller Uppers and Other “Great” Ideas
Wanna hear about a time I thought I was smart but when I was actually stupid? It happens about as often as you'd think. Thanks Car Company Engineers!
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Grumblemedics
Grumblemedics seem to be everywhere, whether they're a "grumble-Pee" or a "grumble-bee", perhaps they should evaluate their own attitudes. We have a long way to go, but look at how far we've come.
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Thanking Those who REALLY Deserve it – Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to All and to All a good night! Who should we really be thanking this Christmas? It's not me, I'll tell you that.
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Stop the Entertainment
When we focus our attention on Building Construction, Command Risk Management and Firefighter Safety and the essence of combat structural fires; Structural firefighting is what it's all about, is it not? The fundamental nature and reason we have such ven…
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Everyday EMS Ethics – Social Media and “Smart” phones?
Are "smart" phones and social media too much of a temptation for some? This Everyday EMS Ethics post looks into our ethical standards with Social Media and the Emergency Services.
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The day I didn’t die – Firefighter Close Calls
This is my post for the November edition of The Handover Blog Carnival, hosted this month by The Happy Medic. The theme? Close calls. I've not been much closer than this.
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Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek
Ok, so this post really proves just how much of a geek I really am. Just bear with me for a bit.
This subject causes me a lot of personal grief. I know that it probably shouldn’t and that I am indeed a geek for worrying about this issue because seem…
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If I wasn't so busy running calls today…
I would get a post up about EMS Ethics and patient advocacy involving a scenario for y'all...I would get more done on my new upcoming site that's going live (probably) early next week: http://www.lifeunderthelights.com/I would write a response to an…
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Why I love this Job
Because the owner of this brand new Escalade will ultimately be happy that I'm tearing it apart with the spreaders. (Yep, that's Good Ol' Ck on the tool)
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Sunday, Random Sunday
Howdy everyone, welcome to my Random Weekend Post that’s just chock full of Grade A Weekend Randomness. Let’s get things started off here on the right foot with this:
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From the Obsessive Ambulance Cleaner – Tips and timesavers for keepin it squeeky
I am obsessed with clean ambulances. Shocking, I know. Really though, I scrub, clean, shine, and disinfect my ambulances so much I really ought to be locked up. At one job that I worked at for years my partners knew they never had to wash the truck. It w…
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Remembering Earl
This post is my submission to The Grand Rounds blog carnival that's being hosted by Medic999 over on his site. My regular readers are getting a sneak peak. Welcome Newcomers! Be sure to check out the normal day-to-day medic blogging at Http://proems.blog…
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EMS Trendsetters Conference 2009
http://www.emstrendsetters.org/Are you an EMS Person? Are you involved in Emergency Medicine? Are you an EMT, a Paramedic, a Nurse, a Doctor, a “something medical”? Are you interested in high quality continuing education provided in a fun and cool en…
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tRNfkatAMN and Flames a Flyin’
I am so proud of myself!The first EMS Ethics post I wrote a few days ago "EMS Politics, Medical Ethics, and What Would You do?" the one with the ethical dilemma to cric or not to cric, gathered me my first comment flame!The commenter, who bills himself a…
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Operation FEE Line: Exposing the Deadly Side of Kittens on Emergency Scenes
see more Lolcats and funny picturesKittens: Deadly minions of the Dark Side, or Cuddly Agents of Evil… You decide.Today, I faced my own mortality in a daring, high-stakes, high-angle rescue. A life was on the line and my truck company was assigned to r…
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