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Wind Driven Fires

By in Command Safety at February 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Wind blowing into the broken window of a room on fire can turn a "routine room and contents fire" into a floor-to-ceiling firestorm. Read More »

Out of Air Emergency (Last Chance Rescue Filter)

By in Fire and Rescue Concepts, LLC at 01/12/2012 at 17:13
Out of Air Emergency The Last Chance Rescue Filter You are in a dark, heat, smoke filled room, and you are taking your last breath. You think to yourself “now what?”. Your mind quickly goes to a check list of things to do. During this check li… Read More »

Virginia ambulance driver, patient killed in collision with cement truck

By in Fire Truck Blog at January 7, 2012 at 10:18 am
A medical technician was also injured in the crash. Read More »

Remembering Brackenridge 1991 Floor Collapse and LODD

By in Command Safety at December 28, 2011 at 8:25 am
Remembering Brackenridge 1991 Floor Collapse and LODD Read More »

Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983

By in Command Safety at December 28, 2011 at 8:16 am
Remembering Buffalo Box 191 North Division & Grosvenor Streets; December 27, 1983 Read More »

High-rise fires cause quarter billion dollars of property damage a year

By in Command Safety at December 6, 2011 at 8:22 pm
High-rise fires cause quarter billion dollars of property damage a year according to a new NFPA Report. Read More »

UPDATE – Two civilians dead in crash with San Bernardino County medic squad. Car crushed under rig.

By in Fire Truck Blog at December 3, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Two firefighters hurt in crash. Read More »

SFFD Diamond Heights LODD Safety Violations

By in Command Safety at December 3, 2011 at 9:00 am
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 Read More »

Have You Been “Departmentally Institutionalized”?

By in The Tailboard at November 23, 2011 at 00:01
  Oh man. Not feelin' it today for some reason. I definitely need a cup of regulah to get me going. Grab yerself some too and have a seat here with me. Teaching gives someone a unique opportunity that not everyone else in a given field has. … Read More »

A Convergence of Technology for Firefighter Training

By in Firefighter Radio at November 21, 2011 at 10:46 am
Most online training deals with reading text and posting to discussion boards. However, on December 6th, 2011, that is about to change. The Open Fire Academy, International and Firefighter Radio are offering the first class that is both synch… Read More »

Open Fire Academy Starts Affiliate Program Today

By in Firefighter Radio at November 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm
  We want to get the word out about what we are doing to help better promote training to the fire service. If you are a website or blog publisher, we will pay you to promote the Open Fire Academy, International. Promoting our mission and efforts … Read More »

Have a Heart-Healthy Holiday Season

By in NVFC Blog at November 3, 2011 at 6:29 pm
The holiday season is just around the corner. In fact, Thanksgiving is only three weeks away! As a firefighter or first responder, you know it is important to focus on your health and make sure you are ready for the job at hand. But it can be really hard… Read More »

Congratulations to Our October Giveaway Winner

By in Firefighter Radio at November 1, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Congratulations to John Sawyers for being the winner of our October Giveaway. He won a $50.00 gift card to Amazon.com. Watch our Giveaways page for more coming up and earn rewards for participating on the Firefighter Radio. More to come! Read More »

Hometown Heroes: Minnesota Firefighters Efforts to Build a New Memorial

By in Firefighter Radio at November 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm
With this episode, we begin a series called Hometown Heroes. We will look at fire departments and organizations around the globe. We will launch our series in Minnesota. If Minnesota’s 20,000 firefighters raise enough money by the end of th… Read More »

Accountability and Safety in the Fire Service

By in Firefighter Radio at October 27, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Image via Wikipedia Join our roundtable discussion as Mike, Orlando, Jeremy, and BJ discuss Accountability and Safety in the Fire Service.  We would love to hear your comments and questions.  Please join us and call i… Read More »

The Argument for European, North American Unification

By in Command Safety at October 23, 2011 at 10:46 am
While doing some research on UK and US Strategic Leadership and Operational issues, I came across an article published on FireChief .com on April 28, 2011 and written by By Glenn Bischoff titled: The Argument for European, North American Unification. A… Read More »

Webcasting the National Fallen Firefighter Ceremonies on FF Radio

By in Firefighter Radio at October 15, 2011 at 12:02 pm
If you are unable to attend the National Fallen Firefighter ceremonies this weekend, you can still watch all the events on Firefighter Radio. We will be simulcasting the ceremonies all weekend. Click the link below for schedule and to watch. … Read More »

Incident Safety Officer: Special Hazards/Electrical Hazards

By in Firefighter Radio at October 10, 2011 at 3:23 am
Hosted by Orlando Willis. Today’s firefighter faces greater variety of hazards than ever before and so does the incident safety officer. Advances in society’s level of technology have bred a whole new generation of specials haz… Read More »

Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Reports

By in Command Safety at October 7, 2011 at 4:10 am
New NIOSH LODD Reports issued from the FIRE FIGHTER FATALITY INVESTIGATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM. Are they on your radar screen? Read More »

Creating and Maintaining Drug Addictions in the EMS/ED Setting

By in The State of Prehospital/Emergency Care at October 3, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Some background:   I have a very good friend who is a nurse who recenty admitted to me that the reason s/he "dropped off the face of the Earth," was s/he had an addiction problem.   This person is on the road to recovery and offerre… Read More »

Why the 2010 Report Not Reason to Celebrate

By in Firefighter Radio at October 3, 2011 at 1:42 am
I wanted to take some time to review through the USFA's Firefighter Fatality Report for  2010. There is quite a lot of information to absorb and I definitely think all those who work to provide these reports should be commended on making this h… Read More »

Calling the Mayday is Now on Facebook

By in Firefighter Radio at September 21, 2011 at 2:25 pm
The Calling the Mayday has become a foundational course for many departments. However, some still have not had the opportunity to take this important course. To help, the Calling the Mayday is now available via the Facebook platform. Taking the course if… Read More »

Measured Response to Response Measures

By in High Performance EMS at August 27, 2011 at 2:05 pm
In conversations lately I have been hearing more diverging opinions on measuring EMS response ranging all the way from it being a definitive criteria to saying  it shouldn't be considered at all. A recorded example of such a discussion is a recent blogt… Read More »

Chicago Attic Fire: Firefighter Maydays, Four Injured UPDATED

By in Command Safety at August 26, 2011 at 6:07 am
Four Chicago Firefighters injured while battling a residential fire. Maydays were called while fire suppression operations were being conducted within the attic area of the structure. Read More »

Our Kids

By in The Tailboard at August 19, 2011 at 10:24
*Image from Uniform Duds for Kids.   Everyone got there cahffee? Grab some diamond plate. This one might stir up some lively discussion. So the other night I was listening to an on-line podcast over at FirefighterNetCast that is hosted by … Read More »

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