Posts Tagged: Command
Rules of Engagement 2010
The “Rules” were formally adopted by the IAFC Health, Safety and Survival Section at the Fire Rescue International Conference held last week in Chicago.
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Shaping the Future Creating leaders in our Youth
As we quickly approach a time when much of the fire service leadership will be retiring we are destine to face the loss of great leadership in the fire service. This could prove to be a tragedy for our profession or we can make it a positive bench mark. …
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Stuck In The Past
When your organization is experiencing such dysfunction that it is obvious even to the newest recruit, then how clueless are you to insist that everything is coming up roses?
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What Do You See?
As an officer that will be making the initial decisions on this building you have a great responsibility to know as much about this structure as you can. It will certainly help you to make the best possible decision about your tactics.
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Registration Open for Officer Development School in Barren Hill, PA
Traditions Training is excited to announce that registration is now open for our "Officer Development School", to be held September 18 & 19 at the West End Fire Company in Quakertown, PA. Learn real-world leadership and street-smart tactics featuring experienced officers from the Kentland VFD, FDNY, and Fairfax County Fire Department.
Featuring hands-on participation with various leadership challenges and tactical scenarios, this program will have you interacting with leaders of other departments and challenging your decision-making as you examine and improve your personal leadership style.
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BURN
BURN is a documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters, who are on the front lines charged with the thankless task of saving a city — and an American Dream — that many have written off as dead. We made a 10-minute trailer.…
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Adapting
If you are the first arriving unit and officer, explain where your going and what your doing. I'll give you a little information to help you along.
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Ten Minutes in the Street: “A Little Smoke Showin’ with your Coffee?”
New Scenario Posted
Ten Minutes in the Street
A Buildingsonfire.com Series
Interactive Scenarios, Where YOU Make the Call
Ten Minutes in the Street is back, bringing you insightful and provoking street scenarios for the discriminating and persp…
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Remembering Hackensack and Gloucester City
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As we approach the July 4th holiday period, two significant LODD incidents previously occurred during this time frame that hold a …
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No More History Repeating Events-Remembrance
As we approach the July 4th holiday period, two significant LODD incidents previously occurred during this time frame that hold a number of lessons learned related to command management, operations, building construction principles and building performan…
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Registration Open for Officer Development School in Quakertown, PA
Traditions Training is excited to announce that registration is now open for our "Officer Development School", to be held August 14 & 15 at the West End Fire Company in Quakertown, PA. Learn real-world leadership and street-smart tactics featuring experienced officers from the Kentland VFD, FDNY, and Fairfax County Fire Department. Featuring hands-on participation with various leadership challenges and tactical scenarios, this program will have you interacting with leaders of other departments and challenging your decision-making as you examine and improve your personal leadership style.
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Officers, Take a Look Around You!
This is why the officer/s need to be aware and not get tunnel vision.
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Learning the Lessons from the Past
June 17th marks the anniversary of two significant fire service incidents that resonate with the values, doctrine and philosophy that define the principles and tradition of the Fire Service.
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Ten Minutes in the Street: Interactive Scenarios Returning to Firefighter Nation
Ten Minutes in the Street
After a bit of an extended hiatus on the lecture circuit, Ten Minutes in the Street is returning to the Firefighter Nation Forums with more of what you came to expect with high quality scenarios and thought provoking discuss…
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From Waldbaum’s to Hackensack- Worcester to Charleston; Legacies for Operational Safety
From Waldbaum’s to Hackensack- Worcester to Charleston; Legacies for Operational Safety
“From Waldbaum’s to Hackensack- Worcester to Charleston; Legacies for Operational Safety”; I still find it surprising during my travels around the coun…
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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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NFPA 1407 – R.I.T. – Part II
In our first post on R.I.T, we reviewed the new "NFPA Standard for Rapid Intervention #1407 " and its role in defining RIT training. In this is second blog post we will take a look at the rest of the NFPA 1407 document. On the fireground, No one is coming in for us, but more of us... We need to be sure that we are ready to go to work as a member of a R.I.T Company.
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Buffalo, NY Three Alarm Fire and Double LODD Report
NIOSH released it's report on the August 24, 2009 three alarm fire at 1815 Genesee Street in Buffalo, New York that resulted in the LODD of Lt. Charles McCarthy and FF Jonathan Croom. On August 24, 2009, 45-year-old career Lieutenant Charles McCarthy die…
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Ten Minutes in the Street: Stretchin’ the line on the First-Due Scenario
Head on over to Firefigher Nation to the Fireground Tactics & Firefighter Safety Forum for a new Ten Minutes in the Street Scenario.
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Maintaining Situational Awareness
Maintaining focused situational awareness while recognizing and processing a wide latitude of incoming information and observations at complex and multiple alarm incidents is a significant challenge to even the most experienced of incident command teams.…
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Criminal negligence on the part of commanders?
South Carolina's SLED is planning to review records for signs of negligence in the case of the June 18, 2007 Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, SC. A team of State Law Enforcement Division agents is reviewing records from the Sofa Super Store blaze for…
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What do you know about Building Construction?
What do you know about Building Construction?
Regardless of your rank or time in your organization or company; what do YOU know about building construction? It’s a loaded question to say the least, since the characteristic replies run the gamete of wh…
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Risk versus Gain: Operations in Vacant or Abandoned Structures
Risk versus Gain: Operations in Vacant or Abandoned Structures
Fire Fighter LODD after Being Trapped in a Roof Collapse During Overhaul of a Vacant/Abandoned Building. NIOSH recently published a report on a 2008 LODD that occurred in a vacant/ abandon…
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Rings, Tags, Clips & Velcro…
Accountability hardware systems: TAGS, RINGS, CLIPS, VESTS, BOARDS, VELCRO, PAPER LISTS, MAGNETS, COMPUTER CHIPS... they come in all shapes and sizes, limited usually only by your budget. Your department can use a pre-made "canned one"...off the …
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Predictability of Occupancy Performance during Suppression Operations
Our buildings have changed; the structural systems of support, the degree of compartmentation, the characteristics of materials and the magnitude of fire loading. The structural anatomy, predictability of building performance under fire conditions, struc…
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