Posts Tagged: Fire Attack
First Due Friday; Heavy Smoke from a Commercial
Check out this "soupy" commercial job in PG County, MD. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Ready...Go!
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First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula
Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house. Note the wind and the exposures. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Have fun!
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Anatomy of a Basement Fire
Here is a short video that you can use for a drill or training night. Feel free to use however you like. This is from a recent basement fire and what was looked for and what was done. There are some considerations to think about. This is not everything for all basement fires. Just a simple tutorial. Feel free to add your experience and ideas to this video.
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2012 Class and Event Planning In Progress
Make training, professionalism and pride part of your New Year's resolution! We're in the process of building our 2012 calendar with intense, realistic hands-on training, interactive classroom events and good old-fashioned brotherhood.
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First Due Friday; Truck Arrives First at a House Fire
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation. This week, you are the Officer on the 4 person TRUCK company who ARRIVES FIRST at this single-family house fire. Due to other call volume, the FIRST DUE ENGINE is 5 minutes away.
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First Due Friday: “Big Box” Search
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
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Up On the Roof!
A few tours back, the kid and I were on top of a wood frame, two-story residential. Metal roof. Taken there by the City's platform...
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High Rise training, fighting, dancing and a rodeo!
I didn't get a post up saturday night because I took half the day off.
My beautiful bride and I attended her 25th high school reunion.
We had a very nice dinner and dance at Mariner's Landing on nearby Smith Mountain Lake.
For those of you…
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Working Fire
It's been exactly one month since Randy was assigned to "Lucky #13" and today, he caught his first fire.
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Preplanning During EMS Runs
Snapped this picture during an EMS run. Invaluable lessons can be learned by paying attention during non-fire runs.
Some of the things we noted:
1. The additional slide bolt lock on the front door
2. No door knob on the bedroom door
3. Open ligh…
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Basic Tactical Considerations
What are some considerations that must be looked at with this fire? What would be your next plan of action? Why ist there so much heat and smoke with the fire venting the exterior? What is your size up?
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Another Hectic Day In “The Noke”
Well, hectic for me anyway.
It's my 3rd and final day of "riding the car" this week. The Chief will be back to duty next cycle and I get to go back home to "Lucky #13".
As I said, in an earlier post this week; riding the car isn't ALL bad…
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The Next 100 Feet of the Attack Line
When discussing attack line tactics, one of the most important points to remember is for the Nozzle Firefighter to always show up at the door with, at least, 1 section of hose often referred to as the “working length”. What about the 100 feet or so behind the working length? Who manages that hose and how? There are certain objectives, or good practices, that all engine companies should try to accomplish that will aid in advancing the attack line into the structure.
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Physiological Stress associated with Structural Firefighting Observed in Professional Firefighters-Study
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COOPERATIVE EFFORT WITH THE INDIANAPOLIS FD
A primary goal of the project was to investigate the physical rigor of real fire scene work. Fire scene work tasks may differ widely with respect to their cardiovascular and respiratory stress. …
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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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Where Goes the Second Line?
However, sometimes the bigger issue becomes where to take the second line? What apparatus does it come from and what size should it be? What about the length?
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Is Anyone (Else) Out There? First Arriving & Trapped.
As reported in our nations news, five DC Fire Department members were injured yesterday in an early morning house fire. They became trapped by a ceiling collapse shortly after making entry. The speed with which the RIC deployed and made rescues, coupled with the the IC immediately requesting a 2nd Alarm resulted in not only rapid rescue of multiple trapped firefighters, but also quick knock down of a serious fire. Unlike urban/metro FD's, the suburban FD may not have quite a rapid response to the same scenario. Though the goals, intentions may be the same, the shear number of available resources can be a devastating difference. What does your department have in place to prepare and/or react to the first arriving unit becoming involved in a fireground emergency?
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Light Force 170. Rock On Dude
Yeah, they're cool and all, but you might learn a bit more with the mute button "on".
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Straight Stream vs. Fog: A Visual Aid
A byproduct of that debate is hose stream selection for fire attack. The question is, do you use a wide fog pattern, a narrow fog (a.k.a. power cone) or a straight (or solid) stream for offensive interior fire attack? Watch this video and form your own conclusions.
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The end of the dreaded Mon, Wed, Fri cycle…
I received several questions as to the smoke condition from the attic / roof. Apparently, the picture wasn't large enough for some to see so I'll put it up again in a larger size ... I'll also highlight some smoke for ya ...
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The Whip Tips the Hat to the Man
Giving your people the authority to make decisions and to act in the moment when action must rule the day takes a lot of trust and confidence. Sometimes you are going out on a limb, but if you don't give them that opportunity, if you don't believe in your people, how will they ever master their profession?
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Remembering The Parting Glass
I gathered the shift together to tell them we would soon hear a single tone out over the house radio to mark his passing. I didn't even get finished telling them before it began to sound a long, long, mournful tone. He was gone.
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9/11 – Remembering the 343 And A Promise Made
" The fireman I was before 9/11 is not the fireman that I am now. That changed in an instant. Before both towers had gone to ground, I had become a different fireman. For myself and thousands of other firemen, we had not only a career changing moment, but a life-changing moment. All things that had been before were somehow less intense, our current time, began when the towers went down."
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Learn Something
Let's learn something that will keep us safe and make us better and thank the guy who filmed and posted the video for the experience.
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