Posts Categorized: Training Fire Rescue Topics
Don’t Be That Firefighter
Are you this kind of firefighter? We hope not.
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European High-Angle Rescue Competition
ON MAY 12 the seventh edition of Grimpday was held.
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VES with Ladder Bail
This is a video of a drill we do. It starts as a VES drill with the firefighter ascending the ladder and then clearing a window. The space is smoked up and the fierfighter enters, starting his search for the door. While he’s searching we throw a rug …
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Identify Basics
There is always talk of the basics and what they mean to the fire ground. Basics are the Key to preventing fire ground emergencies. Every week we will look at a fire not to poke fun or disrespect the agency in the photo or video, but in an effort to use …
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Kill The Flashover
Transitional attack is something you might see in our department, but you probably wouldn't hear anyone using the terminology "Transitional Attack". It would merely be a case of cooling the fire prior to heading inside if needed.
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Best of the Rest – Learning to Crawl, Fingerprints, Chicago Fire, All My Rowdy Friends…and More
Best of the Rest - Learning to Crawl, Fingerprints, Fireground Flowthrough, Chicago Fire, All My Rowdy Friends, Terrifying Secrets About Riding in an Ambulance, Training, and much more!
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Ohio Close Calls
Blaming Radios and Remembering Past Tragedy
Relying blindly on technology without incorporating behavioral changes is like giving an M40 to someone who has never fired a rifle in their lives and expecting them to put every round in the 10-ring. It’s not going to happen.
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R.I.T Friend or Foe
The discussion of Rapid Intervention continued to come up among various groups.
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Mock Wreck Turns Dynamic
Safe-Driving Display Gains Unwanted Realism
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Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks
"[The fireground] moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. " Ferris Bueller, kinda.
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Globe’s WASP
Physiological and Location Monitoring on the Fireground
Just before he presses the button on his handie-talkie the EMS duty officer reaches out to him, “Check this out, Ladder 104 Can, he’s spiked his heart rate and respiration.”
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Snohomish County Working:
Rescue Off Balcony
Okay, so this isn't someone straddling the window sill with that rich brownish, grayish smoke pulsing out over him, but imagine pulling up to this with just you, your driver and one firefighter in the back. What's your game-plan?
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FDIC Day 1 notes
Tweeted notes from Wednesday
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Northern Ohio Fools Heavy Rescue 101
Like most extrication folks, I’ll never miss a chance to cut up some....
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UK Decision to Sell Off National Fire College Brings Widespread Complaints
Now it's the National Fire Service College that is adrift and broke.
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Crematorium Fires Increase as Population Gets More Obese (Fatter)
IN GERMANY ROUGHLY HALF THE REMAINS of deceased people are cremated and half of them are medically obese ....
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Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire
"I believe I'm at the stairwell on the Walnut Street side, but I'm stuck in here. On the fire floor, can't get out of this spot and I'm burning up in here."
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Pasadena Working: Transitional Attack
Remember, you can't call a "time out."
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Bailout Hooks–Your Preference?
A recurring question that comes up during almost every firefighter escape or bailout class is which anchor hook most people use and why. We like to train firefighters with the equipment they have, but the hook debate always seems to cause some passionate opinions on which is best and why. I feel that it is not as important what hook you have, but whichever you are using… be an expert with it. No matter what system you are using you must know how to use it properly in any and all conditions that you may face as a firefighter.
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Denver Working: Apartment Fire, Transitional Attack?
Is it a weak, cowardly move that says you have no balls when it comes to being an "aggressive firefighter"? Some believe so.
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The Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”
The area of refuge only applies to truckies forcing apartment doors, correct?
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Citizen Dies in Bungled Fire Drill
THE BANGALORE, INDIA, FIRE DEPARTMENT is in heavy damage-control this weekend after a poorly-planned fire drill at a clothing factory resulted with the death of a 25-year-old woman.
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Squad Co.18 Working:
Top Floor Fire on Lower East Side
Video from Manhattan two-alarm fire and related material on truck company operations and ventilation.
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Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video
Arrival video from D.C. offers opportunity to train on sizeup report expectations.
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Why We Search: Camden
Pot of Gold at the End of the Row?