Posts Tagged: Command
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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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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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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2012 Class and Event Planning In Progress
Make training, professionalism and pride part of your New Year's resolution! We're in the process of building our 2012 calendar with intense, realistic hands-on training, interactive classroom events and good old-fashioned brotherhood.
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First Due Friday; Truck Arrives First at a House Fire
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation. This week, you are the Officer on the 4 person TRUCK company who ARRIVES FIRST at this single-family house fire. Due to other call volume, the FIRST DUE ENGINE is 5 minutes away.
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First Due Friday: “Big Box” Search
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
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FF SAFETY: AF 447 : Conclusion (PART 5)
In trying to determine the cause, it’s almost instinctive to focus on the pilot at the controls, since it was his inputs which led to the nose high pitch and stall. Indeed, in all of the other cruise incidents where mis-matched speeds caused some com…
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FF SAFETY: AF 447 : Investigation (PART 4)
Today is the fourth in a five-part series exploring the loss of Air France Flight 447 and the lessons firefighters can learn about effective teamwork, communication and decision making in a high risk environment.
Air Speed and Pitot Tubes
The A-330…
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FF Safety: Air France 447 : Search (Part Two)
Today is the second of a five-part series exploring the loss of Air France Flight 447 and the lessons firefighters can learn about effective teamwork, communication and decision making in a high risk environment.
In the days immediately after the disa…
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FF Safety: Air France 447: 263 Seconds (Part One)
Today is the beginning of a five-part series exploring the loss of Air France Flight 447 and the lessons firefighters can learn about effective teamwork, communication and decision making in a high risk environment.
On May 31st, 2009, at about 22:30, …
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RIC Refresher Breakdown
Saws, irons, ladders and rescues were the flavor of week for our brothers in Bluffton, SC. Safe Firefighter, LLC just wrapped up a RIC Refresher for the Bluffton Township Fire District. Training included calling the Mayday, self-rescue, rapid intervention crew assignments and operations and performing proactive RIC tasks.
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“We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
Engine 42 Lieutenant Catches Boy and Provides Training Questions for Engine Companies
Lieutenant's catch helps us give you some valuable questions your engine company should try and answer - before the fire.
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Training for the Evolving Fireground
Today's fireground is evolving and transitioning due to a wide variety of changes, impacts and influences. Are you keeping up with what those changes are? Looking for some new and emerging training for 2012? How about Training in PA in November?
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Size up this fire.
The point of view in this video shows almost everything that is happening so you have to imagine yourself showing up at street level and the limited view you would have had. The first arriving companies thought it was a fire in the rear p…
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Change the Way You Train
Are you looking for quality, cost-effective Fire Service training options? I’m excited to be a part of a new training event series that will bring first-rate education and hands-on training to affordable, regional locations. There are two events this fall from Go>Forward Training...
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Lessons Learned:
Deadly Disorientation at Texas Plant Fire
Probably one of the best reasons to do preplanning from 2010.
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Texas 2010 LODD State Investigation
Lessons Never Learned
The Araguz LODD report fails to mention one area that could have made all the difference. It's also doubtful that a RIC would have made a difference. Maybe it's time we start looking at reports just as hard as we look at the incident.
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Failure During Training
During the setup a multi-agency drill, a conversation was started after a prop that was going to be used was built. The conversation covered when to remove a firefighter from the prop that will be used as apart of an Air Management course. The statement…
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Remembering Hackensack and Gloucester
As we approach the July 4th holiday period, two significant LODD incidents previously occurred during this time frame
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Not-So-Vacant, Vacants
When most of us think about fighting fires in vacant buildings we envision either urban areas with blocks of old vacants or rural areas with one lonely house hidden in the overgrowth. But we found a random row of empty, new construction, houses in a well-kept suburban area where firefighters generally wouldn't think twice about calling this row "EMPTY" or "VACANT". Presumably, they would set their strategies and tactics in motion accordingly. Here is proof that we can never take things at face value.
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Texas 2010 LODD State Investigation Synopsis
For 12 minutes, Incident Command has called for the victim and captain 10 times.
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Roof and Ceiling Collapses DCFD and Gary FD
The collapse conditions presented themselves during the course of operations in which suppression or search and rescue operations were being conducted.
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Chesapeake (VA) Auto Parts Store Roof Collapse Double LODD 1996
Two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when they became trapped by a rapidly spreading fire.
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Apartment Fire w/ Rescue… Command Presence and NIMS: An Excellent Visual Aid
Andrew Brassard found this video from an El Camino Apartment fire w/ rescue. It is tremendous teaching aid for Incident Commanders. Really, anyone would learn and appreciate the effort of these guys. Very professional, very efficient. Great job to that FD.
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