Posts Categorized: Strategy And Tactics
First Due Friday; You Arrive on the Truck… (Video)
First thing you see is a Truck pulling up to the scene. YOU'RE ON THAT TRUCK! Based on what you see with the building, the conditions, the Engine Co. and other crews' operations, WHAT ARE YOUR ASSIGNMENTS FOR YOUR CREW? Compare this FD's ops to your FD and give us your RECEO VS considerations. Enjoy!
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Adaptive Fireground Management for Company and Command Officers: FDIC 2012
New insights into emerging concepts and methodologies related to the challenges that arise while fighting today’s structural fires on the evolving fireground.
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Thoughts On “Size 10″ Forcible Entry
Forcible Entry is always a popular topic in the blogisphere as well as the kitchen table. While we consider ourselves forcible entry purists (i.e. using the right tool for the right job in the right manner), you can't help but appreciate this how-to poster:
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The Worcester 6
May the Worcester 6 always be remembered; “Fallen Heroes Never Forgotten.” Learning from the past is your responsibility.
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Apartment Complex Under Construction: Rapid Deployment and Operations
Safety and accountability are high priorities at multiple alarm incidents involving a construction site. A rapidly advancing fire in an apartment building complex under construction was managed and controlled without incident. How prepared are you and your company?
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Tactical Operations and Combat Fire Engagement with Go >Forward Training
The demands of today's fire ground require new perspectives built upon the decades of practices and methodologies and the emerging new rules of combat fire engagement. Are you up for the challenge?
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Tonight on Taking it to the Streets: The New Fire Ground and the First-Due
Tune in to tonight's edition of Taking it to the StreetsTM where the program will be looking at the New Fire Ground and the First-Due
Joining the program will be two special guests: Division Chief Ed Hadfield (CA) and Deputy Chief Jason Hoevelmann (MO) providing a great opportunity to listen to perspectives from coast to coast and the heartland.
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Building Knowledge=Fire Fighter Safety
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Modern incident demands on the fireground are unlike those of the recent past requiring incident commanders and commanding officers to …
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SFFD Firefighter Memorials and Updates
More details emerged Monday about last week’s fatal Diamond Heights blaze, as fire officials said an emergency alert accidentally went off on a nearby fire engine about the same time two firefighters’ personal alarms sounded inside the burning buildi…
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Combat Ready and the Fire Service Warrior on Taking it to the Streets
We'll further explore how as Christopher Brennan states; "Today’s firefighter must be a warrior who will unflinchingly put his very life in harm’s way to accomplish a mission, but who is also fully informed about the path being chosen".
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Surviving the Fire Ground – Fire Fighter, Fire Officer and Command Preparedness 2011
Safety Week 2011The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) are pleased to announce the 2011 Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week (also known as Safety Week) to be held the week of Ju…
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Survivability Profiling: Taking it to the Streets
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Live and Online Taking it to the Streets with your host Christopher Naum will present another timely and insightful look at an emerging e…
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Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call
Taking it to the Streets: Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call
On Your Street, In Your City, Across the Country, Around the WorldTM
Join us on Wednesday night March 16th at 9:00 pm ET for an insightful discussion on the Nation…
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Ten Minutes in the Street Scenario: On-scene, with Engine Company 13…..
You’re dispatched to a commercial building address in your first-due area along with the Truck Company for a report of smoke coming from the building.
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One Meridian Plaza High Rise Fire: Twenty Years Ago
On what began as an uneventful Saturday night twenty years ago, a fire on the 22nd floor of the 38-story Meridian Bank Building...
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Multiple Alarm Operations with Wind Driven Fire
The five alarm fire that ran through a seven story multiple occupancy (MO) apartment building in the Flatbush Section in the Borough of Brooklyn (NYC) this weekend considerably challenged operating companies of the FDNY as the fire was fueled and spread …
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Operational Conditions can Change in a Heartbeat: Remembering FDNY Black Sunday
Take the time to read both NIOSH reports and remember the sacrafice…
Three veteran FDNY firefighters died in the LODD in Brooklyn, New York and the Bronx on Sunday January 23, 2005, a day that has become known as “Black Sunday” and called one …
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Leadership Defined
Dick Winters, the former World War II commander whose war story was told in the book and miniseries “Band of Brothers,” died on January 2, 2011 at the age of 92. Dick Winters led a quiet life on his Fredericksburg farm and in his …
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Training & Tactics Talk: Emerging Dynamics in the Modern Fire Environment Podcast
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Podcasts and Internet Broadcasts for Fire and Emergency Service Professionals: Real Issues. Real Answers. Real Firefighters.
Training & Tactics Talk Hosted by Chief Doug Cline
Training & Tactics Talk: Emerging Dynam…
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Fire Department Officers Liable in Double Firefighter LODD
The state Supreme Court Appellate Division in Rochester – in a 4-1 split decision – concluded the law granting personal immunity to volunteer firefighters does not apply to the fire departments themselves or to department officials.
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Remembering Brackenridge 1991 Floor Collapse and LODD
Remembering Brackenridge, Pennsylvania December 20, 1991: Four Firefighters Killed, Trapped by Floor Collapse
Four volunteer firefighters died when they were trapped by a partial floor collapse during a structure fire in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania…
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The What, Where & Why of the First Line
Nothing does more to improve safety on the fireground than correctly stretching, positioning and using the first attack line (sorry Truckies). The question is, do we take our most effective life and property saving skill for granted? Do you know the WHAT, WHERE & WHY before and/or during the initial attack line stretch? This post asks these questions and offers some discussion to the most fundamental fireground tactic.
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First-Due Arriving Companies; Are You Prepared?
As the First-Due Fire Company; Officer and crew, Are you prepared to address the fireground variables and occupancy risks upon your arrival and during the initial stages of your deployment and operations? Are you combat ready or passively engaged? …
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The First-Due Fire Officer
On the most recent edition of Taking it to the StreetsTM we had a vibrant and insightful program in which we discussion some of the expansive facets related to the First-Due Officer. The discussion revolved around a variety of functional elements, trai…
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The Initial On Scene Report
Most in the fire service would agree that our success at any building fire is determined by the actions of the initial arriving units (first alarm assignment). The ability of the first arriving unit to provide a sufficient initial on-scene report will provide other incoming units with the information and direction they need to position and operate in the most efficient manner and, hopefully, take care of the fire safely and quickly. A very useful and effective acronym that I have used is the A-B-C-D Size-up.
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