Posts Tagged: Fathers Day Fire
Apply the Lessons Learned
Above all, don't let the lives lost at any LODD be lives lost in vain. Learn from their mistakes, but don't be critical, we have all screwed up and been lucky enough to get away with it. Be constructive and train on the recommendations so that you don't repeat history.
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Learning the Lessons from the Past
June 17th marks the anniversary of two significant fire service incidents that resonate with the values, doctrine and philosophy that define the principles and tradition of the Fire Service.
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I Have That T-Shirt!
The other day I was surfing the internet...this is not uncommon at all! I was going from site to site. When I get going I might end up with 5 windows open with 10 or 15 tabs each which is not very easy to keep track of.
However, on this one particular d…
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Firefighting Acronyms
Here are some Firefighting acronyms that every firefighter should know. If you have more, add them to the comments. I know that there are hundreds more than this list, I just thought I would save us time and publish the difficult ones as well as some of …
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Fire Cadet costs Houston FD Half a Million Dollars
At least that is what the report states...kinda. I am jumping to the end of the article found here. According to the Houston Fire Department, it costs $500,000 to put a recruit through recruit school. Boy have I got a deal for the Houston FD. I know of a…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – Sun Valley Fire Department
The Monday morning shoutout goes to the Sun Valley Fire Department (link) located in Idaho. Keep up the great work and stay safe!
Two other notes: Sun Valley utilizes wordpress for their web hosting/design although it might have been customized by a thi…
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Playing Russian Roulette with Public Safety
Flint, Michigan just found out what it is like to play Russian Roulette with Public Safety.
Less than 48 hours after the city of Flint, Mich., laid off 22 firefighters and cut operations at two local fire stations, an alarm sounded for a house fire on Be…
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So you want to be a Firefighter? Can we please have your Facebook password first?
The City of Bozeman, Montana apparently really wanted to get their name on the map. The City is demanding that new applicants for city jobs like firefighters, and police officers hand over their login AND passwords for sites like facebook and myspace.
I…
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Four-story building collapses in Brooklyn
Doesn't it seem as though a building collapses every day in New York City? Luckily only 4 people were injured this time and no one was killed. I just find it interesting at how often it seems as though this occurs. I wonder how many departments out there…
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Making the most of blogging
How's about another Shrimp on the Barbie?
In a couple of months, two bloggers will be working together at each others jobs. One is a Firefighter and Paramedic on an Engine company in San Fransisco (The Happy Medic) and the other is a Paramedic for the…
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Fire Chiefs and Statistics
Some Fire Chiefs have devised a great way of showing success in their careers and within their departments. By altering the reporting criteria for call data they can manipulate the data. That data compared to former data (history) will show change. The p…
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