Posts Tagged: Engine Company
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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Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks
"[The fireground] moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. " Ferris Bueller, kinda.
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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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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 Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”
The area of refuge only applies to truckies forcing apartment doors, correct?
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Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More
Video from Rescue Officer answers critics about delay in getting water on the fire and shows that chasing kinks is everyone's job. Where is that firm benchmark that says you must have water on the fire by __ time?
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Spaghetti
You are an engine company, not an Italian restaurant.
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D.C. Working: Southeast House Fire.
Notice the Stretches.
Not much fire in the video, but two damn good examples of a hoseline stretch.
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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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“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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Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.1:
Gastonia, North Carolina
NC engine company sets up their hosebed to make the best use of not only their three-man crew, but the second-due three-man engine company as well.
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“Expect Fire” New Haven
After Medic-Local, Engine 11 Comes Across Working Fire and Makes a Rescue
After not finding a patient the engine company heads home. On the way, they see people pointing to smoke coming from an apartment window.
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“Expect Fire” Early Footage of Chicago Multiple Alarm on Weekday Afternoon
Only a block away from quarters, Engine 22 has an afternoon full of fire and first line choices.
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The Craziest 10-Minutes in Firefighting
*Image from Bayonne, NJ Fire Department website
Whew! Well after that blow we all deserve a break on 'da tailboard and a nice hot cup of regulah. Everyone got one? Let's just have a nice chat then shall we?
When I first began dr…
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The Endangered Species
"The UFA also claims fire emergencies have increased 16 percent since 2001 and that the FDNY received a record number of alarms in 2010."
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But The 2-1/2 Is Soooooo Hard to Move…
"If the reason why you don't use the 2 1/2 is because it is difficult to move, you are insulting the generations of firefighters before you, when that was all they had." Batt. Chief Gerry Tracy, FDNY
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Victim Survivability Profiling.
A Clarification
“Every situation is a situation” and the fire you are responding to is one that you are seeing for the first time.
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Fire apparatus photos from Baltimore 5th-alarm from Stanley J. Jaworski.
Baltimore City's engine companies, truck companies and water tower on the fifth-alarm at 404 East Baltimore Street.
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Food for Thought: Pump Pressures for Attack Lines
No matter how much training and/or experience you had as a firefighter, the pressure of being the Driver/Operator, the one responsible for the safety of an attack crew, causes some to question what they know is right.
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The NIST Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiements, Executive Summary
The NIST Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiements was issued this morning. A copy of the report is at CommandSafety.com HERE and is also available for download at the NIST, HERE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Both the increasing demands on the …
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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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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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Putting the wet stuff on the red stuff
The essence of fire service suppression operations is predicated upon the deployment and application of water as an extinguishing agent, in sufficient quantities, location and duration to extinguish a fire within an enclosed structural compartment. The u…
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Stockton, California Working:
A Little ‘Shot in The Arm’ for the Fire Service