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Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks

By in Backstep Firefighter at May 3, 2012 at 6:21 pm
"[The fireground] moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. " Ferris Bueller, kinda. Read More »

Fire Dynamics Simulation of 2011 Baltimore County LODD- 30 Dowling Circle

By in The Company Officer at March 25, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Fire Dynamics Simulation model provided insight on the route of fire spread, the rapid fire growth leading to flashover of the second and third level, and the benefits of compartmentation on slowing fire and smoke spread. Read More »

Baltimore County (MD) Firefighter Falkenhan Line of Duty Death Report Issued

By in Command Safety at March 25, 2012 at 9:55 am
"Firefighter Falkenhan was a well-respected and experienced firefighter. He died performing his duties during a very complex incident with severe fire conditions and unique fire behavior coupled with the immediate need to perform multiple rescues of victims in imminent danger. It would be easy if one particular failure of the system could be identified as the cause of this tragedy. We could fix it and move on. Unfortunately it is not that simple. No incident is “routine”. Mark’s death and this report reinforce that fact". From the Baltimore County (MD) FD LODD Report. Read More »

Denver Working: Apartment Fire, Transitional Attack?

By in Backstep Firefighter at March 12, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Is it a weak, cowardly move that says you have no balls when it comes to being an "aggressive firefighter"? Some believe so. Read More »

The Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”

By in Backstep Firefighter at March 7, 2012 at 10:00 am
The area of refuge only applies to truckies forcing apartment doors, correct? Read More »

Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

By in Backstep Firefighter at February 29, 2012 at 9:48 am
Providing a brief fire attack video to pick your brain on what you think transitional attack is. Read More »

San Francisco FD Berkeley Way Double LODD Report Issued: Routine Fire….

By in Command Safety at February 24, 2012 at 3:23 pm
This incident appeared from the onset to be a routine “room and contents” fire that the SFFD encounters on a regular basis. As the Companies were performing standard fireground operations, the incident rapidly deteriorated due to a hostile fire event. The failure of a window in the fire room allowed fresh oxygen to enter the room, providing a fire that was deprived of one of the key elements of combustion to rapidly intensify. Read More »

Looking Back at One Meridian Plaza High Rise Fire: 1991

By in Command Safety at February 24, 2012 at 12:01 pm
On what began as an uneventful Saturday night twenty-one years ago, a fire on the 22nd floor of the 38-story Meridian Bank Building, also known as One Meridian Plaza, was reported to the Philadelphia Fire Department. Read More »

Building-Occupancy Relationships and Firefighting

By in Command Safety at February 16, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Knowledge and proficiencies related to building construction are formulative to all strategic, tactical and task level assignments. Without understanding the building-occupancy relationships and integrating; construction, the compartment, occupancy ris… Read More »

The New Rules of Combat Fire Engagement: Random Thoughts

By in Command Safety at February 15, 2012 at 8:10 pm
The New Rules of Combat Fire Engagement: How do You Measure  Your Effectiveness on the Fireground? What are Your Rules of Engagement Based upon? Are Your Operations SOP Driven? Are they Aggressive or Measured? What is Employed in your Size… Read More »

FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998

By in Command Safety at December 28, 2011 at 8:30 am
FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998 Read More »

This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004

By in Backstep Firefighter at December 20, 2011 at 10:00 am
" - it was reported that all at once it sounded like firefighters were yelling “back out, back out” and “bail out.”" Read More »

Collyer Mansion Rescue: Pasadena, MD
Rescue of Handicapped Occupant and Progressing Fire on Videos

By in Backstep Firefighter at December 15, 2011 at 8:17 am
Handicapped Maryland woman located and rescued as fire consumes packed house. Read More »

Stockton, California Working:
A Little ‘Shot in The Arm’ for the Fire Service

By in Backstep Firefighter at December 9, 2011 at 9:33 am
You have a job to do. Get it done. Read More »

SFFD Diamond Heights LODD Safety Violations

By in Command Safety at December 3, 2011 at 9:00 am
State investigators have cited the San Francisco Fire Department for "serious" worker safety violations in the deaths of two firefighters killed battling a Diamond Heights house fire in June Read More »

Second Alarm Apartment Fire, VA

By in The Company Officer at November 20, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Strategy and Tactics at Garden Apartment Complex and Residencies required special instructions, insights and knowledge that goes well beyond the practices and methodologies typically deployed at single family residential fire incidents. Read More »

Required Reading: Impact of Ventilation on Fire Behavior in Legacy and Contemporary Residential Construction

By in The Company Officer at October 23, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Another must read for all Company and Command Officers: Impact of ventilation on fire behavior in legacy and contemporary residential construction from UL. Take some time to increase your proficiencies and compentencies. Read More »

Fireground Dynamics: Smoke Explosion during Interior Operations

By in Command Safety at October 8, 2011 at 11:33 am
Reading the Smoke, Fire Dynamics and Smoke Explosion Read More »

“Expect Fire” Part 2
Afternoon Worker in San Francisco’s ‘Haights’

By in Backstep Firefighter at September 28, 2011 at 11:04 am
Captain Keyboard and Firefighter Anonymous are going to have a ball with the second video. Read More »

FRM: Common-Sense Ventilation on the Fireground

By in Backstep Firefighter at September 23, 2011 at 10:00 am
"Firefighters can penetrate deeper into the structure without coordinating the vent—simply because the gear and equipment masks the environment." Read More »

Chicago Attic Fire: Firefighter Maydays, Four Injured UPDATED

By in Command Safety at August 26, 2011 at 6:07 am
Four Chicago Firefighters injured while battling a residential fire. Maydays were called while fire suppression operations were being conducted within the attic area of the structure. Read More »

Tonight on Taking it to the Streets: The New Fire Ground and the First-Due

By in The Company Officer at August 17, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Tune in to tonight's edition of Taking it to the StreetsTM where the program will be looking at the New Fire Ground and the First-Due Joining the program will be two special guests: Division Chief Ed Hadfield (CA) and Deputy Chief Jason Hoevelmann (MO) providing a great opportunity to listen to perspectives from coast to coast and the heartland. Read More »

The New Fire Ground and the First-Due

By in Command Safety at August 15, 2011 at 4:52 pm
This edition of Taking it to the StreetsTM the program will be looking at the New Fire Ground and the First-Due Joining the program will be two special guests: Division Chief Ed Hadfield (CA) and Deputy Chief Jason Hoevelmann (MO) providing a great opportunity to listen to perspectives from coast to coast and the heartland. Read More »

Deployment Decisions: Defining Operations on the First-Due

By in The Company Officer at August 9, 2011 at 10:14 am
First-due company operations are influenced by a number of parameters and factors; some deliberate and dictated, others prescribed and prearranged and yet others subjective, biased, predisposed or at times accidental, casual and emotional. For many of … Read More »

The Waldbaum’s Supermarket Fire and Collapse FDNY 1978-2011

By in The Company Officer at August 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm
The Waldbaum’s Supermarket Fire and Collapse FDNY 1978   The Waldbaum Super market fire, Brooklyn, New York occurred on August 2, 1978. Six firefighters died in the line of duty when the roof of a burning Brooklyn supermarket collapsed, plungi… Read More »

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