Posts Tagged: Company Training
Why Everyone Goes Home doesn’t always mean “Everyone Goes Home.”
"You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers." Charles Bronson as O'Reilly in "The Magnificent Seven"
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High Rise Markings
If you have a high rise or respond on mutual aid to a high rise district, do you know if they are marked for floor identification? If so, do you know how they corresspond with the interior labels? High rise buildings are marked differently, if at all. In…
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Plan B
Are you going to fires with blinders on? Are you approaching your training with blinders on?
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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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It’s That Simple
In most parts of the country we are fighting less fires.This is dangerous and makes it even more important to drill regularly. The officers of the past had years of actual firefighting experience to lean on and pass on. We are losing that experience and that requires us to train as a crew in order to know what is expected, what our company capabilities are based on available resources and to create those experiences that are hard to come by. It all falls on the company officer.
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Tricks of the trade ..RIT tips
There have been several incidents lately where "MAYDAY" was transmitted and RIT / RIC (Rapid Intervention Team, Rapid Intervention Crew) was activated. Dave Statter has coverage of the 5 firefighters injured in Washington DC HERE . Chris Naum …
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Training for VES
When discussing this tactic in some circles there is great debate. In fact, I have heard outright intolerance for VES.
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False Exterior Walls
Not only will it hamper rescue efforts, performing ventilation or suppression from this side of the building would be challenging at best.
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Addresses on Inspections
Then I look at my list and see the same numerics on another inspection form with a different business name. This is what I find.....
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More Company Discussions:You Are the Boss!
Deploy your resources accordingly through what ever a first alarm will bring you. If you want to expand your alarms, hey, have at it.
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Company Discussions: Redeployment?
Time is running out for keeping this in check and an interior attack. We've all been here and we know how this can go.
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Company Discussion: Building Characteristics
Some of you may have fought a fire or two in a building similar to this one or done an inspection at one.
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Company Training
Make company training fun and meaningful. Use this drill for improving the knowledge of equipment on the apparatus while getting the competitive juices flowing!
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Making I-joists More Dangerous
This is a weak spot in this floor and will sag. It will fail much faster if contacted with fire.
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Company Discussion
On what appears to be routine fires, there are challenges always lurking. You must use caution and control in making your tactical decisions.
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Row Houses
This building fire give us many challenges and the need for resources. It is obvious we have extreme exposure problems. How do you handle this?
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Vent, Enter and Search
Would you use VES on this fire? What tactics would you use instead or in addition too to search for occupants?
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Chief on Scene and In the Smoke
Chiefs need to remember their tasks and responsibilities on the fire ground. As aggresssive as you want to be, stay safe and set the example.
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The Plain Clothes Vent Man
Don't allow this on your scene. There is no room for the Plain Clothes Vent Man at your calls.
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Trip to the Hardware Store
This exit door is not only blocked and not accessible, it is also padlocked so that it cannot be opened.
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Kitchen Table Tactics 1-10-10
What would you do if you were the first arriving company officer on this fire? What are the main considerations with this house? Share and post your answers and thoughts.
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More Roof Ops
Is there anything we are forgetting here?
First, let me make it clear, I was looking for a picture I have of a crew working on the roof the correct way when I came across this one.
I know, we have beat the first Roof Ops post to death and if y…
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TIC–Some Food for Thought
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I posted a couple of pictures a few days ago that showed a living room taped off. The roo…
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TV vs. Emergency Lights
You have to look kind of hard to find the emergency features you need to check while on inspections.
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Green Roofs and Fire Operations
Let's try to determine how we would need to change our tactics, if at all, on a green building. This is a house fire like all the others with the exception the roof is a grassy meadow.
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