Posts Tagged: Education
Don’t Be That Firefighter
Are you this kind of firefighter? We hope not.
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How well do you know your weapon
Many times as I travel across my state and even on vacation I stop into firehouses and ask or inquire about their departments operation.
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Perfect Alignment
Deep down inside, we might say to ourselves, "That could never happen here." Or we feel it coming up and we suppress it, because we know, if we were ever to actually verbalize that, it WOULD happen.
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Pasadena Working: Transitional Attack
Remember, you can't call a "time out."
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Denver Working: Apartment Fire, Transitional Attack?
Is it a weak, cowardly move that says you have no balls when it comes to being an "aggressive firefighter"? Some believe so.
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The Right Stuff
There is a profound need to make sure the people we bring in not only have read and signed a memo telling them what our ethics happen to be, but that they LIVE these ethics.
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National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium Training App
The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium’s First Responder Safety Training features a suite of modern technology products and training for electric drive vehicles. Participants learn important information needed to safely respond to accidents involving these vehicles.
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A Comment Worthy of a Post
Executive Director of the NFFF reminds us of the purpose of "EGH".
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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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Why We Search, 2012
We are not saying you should be reckless, unsafe. We are saying you should be realistic.
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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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Zen Zone #40
Half of the battle in leading is knowing ourselves best.
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Okay, It’s 2012: Now What?
Any time you have a problem with someone, it really helps to reflect on the situation and ask yourself if there was a possibility you had something to do with that problem.
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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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The Definition of Insanity
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”
You've seen the video on Facebook - noise, limited visibility, an increasing urgency to get out. The Front Seat speaks with the video creator as well as picks up on some interesting items on Oklahoma City garden-style apartment fires.
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Defending Against Bullies
There are those who are laughing at us, thinking we are too dumb to do anything about cutting our benefits, laying off brothers, closing up fire stations. But hey, let's not raise the spectre of changing things because that wouldn't be "patriotic".
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Boston Mayday Training Sample
Video highlights communications during fire attack and mayday.
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Leadership, Purpose, Service and Reason
The names and placed change; but the meaning and message behind these words resonate with the traditions, values and virtues of the Fire Service
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Georgetown Fire Department Awarded For Excellence in Education
GEORGETOWN - The Georgetown City Fire Department has been presented with its third award for its fire safety program.
During the SC Fire Chief’s Association annual meeting in Anderson, SC, this year, the department was awarded the Richard …
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Mark My Words
"Johnny, you've got the lawyer spot tonight."
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Sacrifice
The point is that true leadership requires sacrifice. Real leaders don't just mail it in when they are tired, or sick, or having a bad day. They put others first and they continue soldiering on.
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Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.2:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Ladder-1 is the only company in the department that gets a green light on every fire.
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And Now, The Rest Chime In…
Real leaders don't let the weak get beat up by bullies, even though they have it good themselves.
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We Won!