Posts Tagged: Close Calls
Oklahoma City Battalion Chief Mike Walker on ‘The Front Seat’
Tune In! Chief Walker will discuss training to an acceptable level of performance as well as training methods and ideas he has been working with. We’ll also review several Firefighter Near Miss Reports and identify some common themes.
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Maydays and Window, Rope Bailout in Queens,
All Within 35 Minutes of the 10-75
35 minutes after the 10-75, there was one member caught in a floor collapse and later, another forced to bailout of the second floor.
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NIOSH Wants To Hear From You
NIOSH is looking for ways to improve the Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program.
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Make A Hole, Make It Wide
When the engine is advancing toward the seat of the fire, it is important that the path in is clear, and that they have a clear path out.
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Smoke Is Fuel. Brief Moment in Fire Science at New York House Fire
Video of a New York house fire reminds us how quickly black turns to orange.
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Kansas City Flashover, Mayday:
Raw Video Interview Highlights Burnt Line, Backup Line and Area of Refuge
"There's no doubt we had a serious near-miss this morning." Chief Dyer
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Roll Call for September 26 to October 2
SAFE Firefighter is going to give an overview of how WE did as a fire service from Sunday to Saturday of every week.
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But They’ll Die as “Valiant Heroes”
What do you know? The fire service has its own version of "don't ask, don't tell."
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Influential Fire Report- Firefighters Trapped at the HoJo
He says that when they penciled through the smoke...it was like spraying gasoline onto the fire...the entire area lit up instantly and violently, “like a bomb went off,” as he described it. He reacted by burying himself facedown on the floor, his partner setting the nozzle to wide fog and spraying it above him as a water curtain. It worked and they were able “ride out” the event.
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Rhetorical Lesson No.6:
Excuse By Explanation Makes Everything Okay