Posts Categorized: Training Development
2012, The First 10
Here is a specific breakdown of these first ten fatalities.
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A Comment Worthy of a Post
Executive Director of the NFFF reminds us of the purpose of "EGH".
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B shifter quarterly starts second year
Those "Blue Card" Brunacini's start second year of their digital magazine
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Why Everyone Goes Home doesn’t always mean “Everyone Goes Home.”
"You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers." Charles Bronson as O'Reilly in "The Magnificent Seven"
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Why We Search, 2012
We are not saying you should be reckless, unsafe. We are saying you should be realistic.
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Owning the Job. Part IV – Misunderstood Requirements
Before you read on, please understand that I appreciate smart aggressive firefighting, it is what I live. I think there are some small things that some firefighters view as others trying to change the way we fight fire...I view them as tools for making us better and understand they must be understood properly and implemented into our game plan. They don't really make us "safe", they make us "smarter".
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The TruForce is Here!
Safe Firefighter, LLC is proud to announce is newest training partner TroxFire Training Solutions, creator and manufacturer of the TruForce forcible entry training system.
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Plan B
Are you going to fires with blinders on? Are you approaching your training with blinders on?
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Wombat-itis
Mike's Wombatitis returns ... will the students avoid infection?
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January 17th, 1908 – Scranton PA Fatal Knitting Mill Fire
SCRANTON FACTORY FILLED WITH GIRLS A PREY TO FLAMES
FOUR KILLED AND MANY MEET SERIOUS HURTS
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were …
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Complacency
For some of us, the routine is one that we do to make sure that our PPE, SCBA, meters and thermal imagers are ready for use. Sometimes the routine turns into a rut…
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Owning the Job. Part II – Past, Present, and Future
To what do we owe the men who founded our department? The honor, respect, dignity, integrity, pride, tradition, loyalty, and brotherhood that created it? Why am I sitting here almost 125 years after the first fire department in Roanoke was created seeking ways to bring back the best of what it has been? What has been lost? Where can we find it?
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Owning the Job. Part I – Self Evaluation
Low morale, bad attitudes, lacking leadership, loss of traditions, lack of pride, no honor, too little integrity, loss of camaraderie, too little respect, no discipline...I could go on. Hopefully the building blocks are still there and I can help salvage the hull of what is a great fire department.
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First Due Friday; Heavy Smoke from a Commercial
Check out this "soupy" commercial job in PG County, MD. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Ready...Go!
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Video: Bionic Firefighting Headmounted Display is Being Developed by Tanagram
Check out this video about a brand new technology being developed by Tanagram Inc. They are developing Headmounted display (HMD) Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Yeah, I know...what the hell does that mean? Watch the video!
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Video: Minor Oops Driving Through Smoke, Fire Engine Clips Mailbox
Here is a short clip. Simply a reminder to pay attention to your surroundings. This could happen to any of us. Luckily it was just a mailbox!
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Morning Lineup – January 10
If you haven't logged on since yesterday morning, then you haven't yet seen the eBook contest we're running.
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First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula
Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house. Note the wind and the exposures. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Have fun!
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Best of the Rest – Fires, Stair Climbs, Training, Best of 2011, a Huge FAIL and Much More
Check out a brand new column on FireCritic.com "Best of the Rest". This column features plenty of other content from around the blog world and elsewhere! If you have something to share let me know!
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MN8 Foxfire Illuminating and Reflective Tetrahedrons – Product Review
I just got a new Phenix leather helmet and the tetrahedrons that came on it are terrible. I pulled them off and installed these new MN8 Illuminating and reflective tetrahedrons and it looks great.
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2012 Les Lukert Conference, Nebraska Society of Fire Service Instructors
Exceptional Training opportunities at the 2012 Les Lukert Conference, Nebraska
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Hold Your Assignment
Often times aggressive fire companies want to get inside and do work, but it is with that same aggression firefighters get killed. If any firefighter out there could justify why 15 firefighters should be operating in a 1100 sq ft ranch house here is your…
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Chicago Fire Department – Everyone Goes Home – Watch and Share
If you think you got some good reason for not wearing this or for not doing things the right way write it down. Because I need to read that to your widow. Cause I'm not going to know what to say. You say it for me. - Chicago Chief of Training Peter VanDorpe
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A Perfect Example of Fire & EMS Recruitment from Wyoming, OH Fire & EMS
The beautiful thing about this project is that any department can use it as a recruitment tool. It won't matter that the video has Wyoming Fire & EMS in it, the message is the same. As a matter of fact, Wyoming firefighters encourage other departments to use it.
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Anatomy of a Basement Fire
Here is a short video that you can use for a drill or training night. Feel free to use however you like. This is from a recent basement fire and what was looked for and what was done. There are some considerations to think about. This is not everything for all basement fires. Just a simple tutorial. Feel free to add your experience and ideas to this video.
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