Posts Categorized: Sar
Out of Air Emergency (Last Chance Rescue Filter)
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…
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Brotherhood Instructors class in Wildwood NJ
Brotherhood Instructors, LLC. will be presenting our 8-hour hands-on "Beyond the Academy: Engine & Ladder Company Operations" class on Thursday September 15, 2011. This course is hosted by the Cape May County Fire Chiefs Assn. - Click…
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The Second Line…
The question for most officers is “which” handline should we pull? For some companies, the question seems to be “whose” handline should we pull?
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25 Days of Blogging: Day 13
Fire apparatus hit by a train, baby delivered in ambulance, and firefighter inhales kitten…just the day in the life of a firefighter.
Read More »Several Upcoming Classes Announced for 2011
February 2011
Saturday February 12th, 2010 - MacBoston Truck 18 2011 Seminar
Clifton Park Fire Department - Clifton Park, NY
2 - 3 hour, LECTURE: Firefighter Safety & Common Fireground Tasks
Open Enrollment Registration & Enrollment Informati…
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Class Announcement: March 2011 – Hands-On & Lecture Training in Lockport, Illinois
Brotherhood Instructors, LLC and Firefighter Education Group, LLC are pleased to
announce a joint-training weekend in Lockport, Illinois
(click here or flier above for further details)
Friday March 11th, 2011 - Beyond the Academy: Forcible E…
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November 14th, 2010 – Centre Wellington, Ontario – Beyond the Academy: Advanced Forcible Entry Operations Class Photos
On Sunday November 14th, 2010, Brotherhood Instructors, LLC conducted an open enrollment Beyond the Academy: Advanced Forcible Entry Operations hosted by the Centre Wellington Fire Department in Fergus, Ontario.
28 members were in attendance from 12 …
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The Brotherhood Instructors, LLC. Training Blog is BACK!
We have decided to relaunch our Online Drills area of our website once again. Over the past year, we have been utilizing our Facebook page (right side-bar) as a drill medium. We liked the Facebook medium because everyone was FORCED to "own-up" to eve…
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Breaking News: Huge Earthquake Hits Chile
Quake was reported as being an 8.8 magnitude and is also the cause of a tsunami that is expected to strike various nations in the Pacific basin.
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Report From Haiti
US&R teams from around the world are engaging missions in Haiti: New York TF 1, Florida TFs 1 and 2, Virginia 1, California 2, and Colorado 1 are working in country, as well as teams from Jamaica, Costa Rica, Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Luxemburg, Canada, Russia, Spain, China, France, Iceland, St. Domingo, Mexico, Netherlands, the UK and Colombia.
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US&R in Haiti: Wishing vs. Planning
Every community must understand its vulnerabilities and the potential for disaster, and plan accordingly. The caveat to this is, that despite the presence of a written plan, you can have every contingency covered and discussed, if you don’t understand and practice the plan, it isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
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Urban Search and Rescue – Rockbreaking 101
Since there seems to be a huge lean forward right now from people who want to know more about US&R, and since US&R is (and has been) one of my main projects for over twenty years, I figure I'll take the opportunity to point you all in some directions for information.
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Hypocrisy
When a man will condemn others but will not subject himself to the same ethical standards, that, my friends, is a hypocrite. We talk about people living in glass houses and the logic for their not throwing stones, but we often fail to hold people to …
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1984
I woke up very early this morning with some reflections of how the last week has gone and was thinking back to how much easier it was in the "old days". While the year 1984 has certain significance to many (you know, the book), the year has certain sig…
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The Case for Credentialing – An Opposing View
I'm distressed that a comment got sent to my spam filter regarding an earlier post and for that I apologize. The poster made the comment that he didn't think I'd print it. As it is, I would hope by now that readers understand that I welcome opposin…
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The Case for Credentialing – Those Who Can't Get In
My final group of people who are not happy with credentialing efforts are the "outsiders". To me, they are the ones with the most logical and compelling concerns about credentialing. Ironically, these people are often those already with some responsi…
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The Case for Credentialing – Those Who Can't Get In
My final group of people who are not happy with credentialing efforts are the "outsiders". To me, they are the ones with the most logical and compelling concerns about credentialing. Ironically, these people are often those already with some responsi…
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The Case for Credentialing – Answering Your Comments
I hate to break free in the middle of this series like this, but there were some comments made that I wanted to discuss. Since one is on one post and the other is on another post, I felt the need to tie them together and talk really quickly to the issu…
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The Argument for Credentialing – Moving On
Now that we have discussed the four major players in the argument against credentialing, lets talk about the argument for it.
A credential is only as good as the standard by which it is issued. The point of having a credential should be to identify an…
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The Case for Credentialing – Opportunists and Profiteers
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And then, there are the profiteers. My intent with Firehouse Zen is not to use it as a place to vent, but as a place to enlight…
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