Posts Tagged: Communications
Colerain and Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today
Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today
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What about the Brother’s Collyer?
It is first and foremost a legal minefield that we just stepped into.
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Expect Fire: Philadelphia
One and one for the AFA finds smoke showing from the third floor.
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Video Discussion: Brooklyn Box 0212
All Hands at Coffee Shop Fire
Here we are in front of the reported fire building. During our approach, what type of building did we determine to have?
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2012 Maydays
A year of communication we hate to hear, but train to say.
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Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions
Rote training produces rote responses and as such the mind isn’t challenged to think in different ways. Use this video and the questions to challenge yourself and the firefighters you work with.
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Fire Ops
We want you to Identify basic functions by putting yourself in the position of our brother and sisters in the videos. Remember these are videos and you could be the next week. We want to learn and grow not critcize.
Five basic points to consider.
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San Francisco Working:
Audio, Video of Four-Alarm Fire on Ocean Avenue
Backdraft reportedly blew a fireball nearly across the street.
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Truck Positioning
When positioning your aerial truck square up with your objective, there will be a lot less twisting and negative force on your truck.
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Five 4 Friday
Just a few rants for the week
Don't assume because a firefighters career has been prodominatly in the South that they are stupid
When fighting commercial structures always secure two water supplies
When you decide to promote up does not mean you …
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California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County
Recent first-person views and why we should push for good editing.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment
I was trying to teach my children about doing quality work and making sure you can put your name on everything you do. Of course one of them asked “But isn’t that a lot of work?” Yes, yes it is. But the effort is the biggest part of any job wel…
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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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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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The Elite Company
Often times fire companies will start to come together but start going in the wrong direction due to poor leadership or lack thereof. Members of the company will start to believe their own self made hype and will began to put distance between them and ot…
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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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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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Berwick, PA Working:
West Ninth Street Fire Videos
Nice series of video and audio of a Columbia County fire from start to finish.
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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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So Much for That “It’s Not Vacant Until We Search” Ideology
Aggressive and Safety each took a hit in Toledo.
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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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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004
" - it was reported that all at once it sounded like firefighters were yelling “back out, back out” and “bail out.”"
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Boston Mayday Training Sample
Video highlights communications during fire attack and mayday.
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Truck Tuesday:
Riding Assignments and Roof Questions
There's more to it than grabbing a saw, cutting a hole and watching the engine, right?
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Real World Staffing
Required Reading for The Front Seat Program on Firefighter Netcast
We'll be talking about the nation's only 2-man ladder company. What? You say there are other minimum staffed companies out there? No way!
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