Posts Tagged: Fire Service
Listen to the Firefighter Netcast’s Stand Down for Behavioral Health- Part 1
Now more than ever before, we have an incredible amount of new resources with which to assist us as we begin to change our attitudes toward the way we address these behavioral health issues which have always been there, but we were always afraid to confront.
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Best of the Rest – Short and Sweet…Fire Service Warrior, FDIC, and Social Media
Last week I posted an article from January on The Fire Service Warrior. Chief Ron Siarnicki commented on the post directly on FSW and apparently the two caught up to discuss it. This week, Chris Brennan talks about why he wrote the article and his discussion with Siarnicki. Read the original post here and the newest post here.
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Fire Critic and IronFiremen Converge on The Big Apple Again…This Time to Support the Rescue 2 MAYDAY Fund
Yeah, they made a pot of coffee. It meant the world to me. One F$%#in cup of coffee was all I needed. If you remember, I have been kicking myself since our last trip for NOT drinking the cup of coffee I was offered. This time I drank it...and they opened up to us more as time went on.
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Another Milestone for Willie and I at the Swoope VFC Annual Banquet
This could be make it or break it to see if Willie and I can share the same stage and talk...and make sense. I am an optimist, so my thoughts were that we would get up there and everything would work itself out.
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Owning the Job. Part V – A Cup of Coffee
Whether it is someone dropping off cookies, looking for directions, a neighboring crew, a retiree, an off duty firefighter, or Chiefs we should welcome them into OUR firehouse. After all, when someone comes to your house do you just let them walk in without greeting them? I didn't think so.
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Vote Now for your Favorite to Win a Firehouse Kitchen Remodel by The Family Handyman
The firehouse with the most votes will receive a truly heroic kitchen renovation valued at $25,000. And since it’s all from IKEA, it will be full of smart and innovative ideas to make their lives a little bit easier so they can better protect our communities.
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South Bend Firefighter Demoted for Taking Cell Phone Video
The report does not state whether or not the "impromptu video" took away from a task the firefighter was completing. When I teach/present on social media, I always remind the guys/gals that they are firefighters, not reporters. They should leave the reporting up to others. I am also a huge proponent of taking pictures of your crew when the job is done.
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Best of the Rest – Quick Drills, Shoutouts, FDNY Rescue 2 MAYDAY Fund, Jay Bettencourt, and much more
The Best of the Rest is back with plenty from across the Fire Service World. Check out some of what the other blogs and web sites have to offer!
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Video: Apartment Fire in West El Paso from Multiple Angles. Firefighter Gets Assistance from Videographer
Apparently a firefighter needed some assistance with directions for incoming units. He got answers from the guy holding the video camera. Nice teamwork!
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Team up with The Fire Critic, IronFiremen, and MN8 FoxFire to Support the Rescue 2 MAYDAY Fund
For the next week, today (Monday January 23, 2012) through next Monday (January 30, 2012) Zach will donate 50% of all online sales of MN8 FoxFire products to the Rescue 2 MAYDAY fund!
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PA LODD- 19-yr old Brandon Little dies while responding in his POV
Brandon Little, 19, of the United Hook and Ladder Fire Company Company 33 out of New Oxford, PA ejected in horrific crash into a house and tree after cresting hill at a high rate of speed.
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Hilarious Video: Firefighter vs Police Officer vs Structure Fire
Here is some humor for you...perfect timing since I have been posting serious stuff recently.
Enjoy... A funny skit about a police officer showing up first at a structure fire.
Warning: Language...and no offense intended towards America's Finest. Just the Bravest having some fun...
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“Iron Sharpens Iron”: Company Officers in today’s Fire Service
Hey Brother,....The Good Book says in Proverbs, that "iron sharpens iron.." meaning that iron in one form can be sharpened by iron in another form (like a file). It goes on to say that in a similar way, good friends build each other up. Sometimes by …
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Owning the Job. Part II – Past, Present, and Future
To what do we owe the men who founded our department? The honor, respect, dignity, integrity, pride, tradition, loyalty, and brotherhood that created it? Why am I sitting here almost 125 years after the first fire department in Roanoke was created seeking ways to bring back the best of what it has been? What has been lost? Where can we find it?
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Owning the Job. Part I – Self Evaluation
Low morale, bad attitudes, lacking leadership, loss of traditions, lack of pride, no honor, too little integrity, loss of camaraderie, too little respect, no discipline...I could go on. Hopefully the building blocks are still there and I can help salvage the hull of what is a great fire department.
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Firefighters, US NAVY Seabees, and Luck Save a Woman and Two Daughters in Daring California Rescue
Here is a decent video showing a complicated, involved, and presumably very well choreographed rescue of a woman and her two daughters. The three family members were rescued. The driver of the semi died in the collision. The incident happened in Buellton, California.
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Video: Minor Oops Driving Through Smoke, Fire Engine Clips Mailbox
Here is a short clip. Simply a reminder to pay attention to your surroundings. This could happen to any of us. Luckily it was just a mailbox!
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Best of the Rest – Reviews, Chevy Volt, Volunteers, Firehouse History, and @Ochocinco on Twitter
I have been sitting on this story waiting for the right time to bring it up. I thought it was kinda neat that Chad Ochocinco mentioned the Peabody LODD on Twitter. Ochocinco has over 3 million followers on twitter. It is great to see someone with his celebrity offering condolences for one of our fallen. Follow Ochocinco on Twitter @Ochocinco
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Fatal Chicago Hi Rise Fire- If Only…..
IF ONLY there were a way to alert sleeping residents, automatically confine the fire to its room of origin, get water on it quickly, and make sure the elevators don't deliver their occupants into hell. Maybe by 2015....
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Close Call: Amazing Video of Russian Firefighter Rescued From High Rise Fire by Aerial at Last Possible Moment
I was on the edge of my seat as this firefighter was rescued at the last possible moment as he hung outside the 4th or 5th floor of this high rise and fire burned around him.
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Video: FDNY Battles 3 Alarm Fire on Broadway in Manhattan
3 alarm fire at 4945 Broadway in Manhattan, NY. FDNY Firefighters battle this building fire that might have been started by "illegal nighttime welding". 138 firefighters from 33 units fought the fire for about 4 hours.
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Video: Fast moving Apartment blaze in Woonsocket, RI
Arriving companies found heavy fire in the basement rapidly extending to the upper floors. About 20 minutes into the fire, firefighters had to evacuate the building because of deteriorating conditions. They then quickly knocked the heavy overlapping fire down from the exterior and went back in and finished knocking it down.
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Video: Bystanders VES Exposure at Apartment Fire in Detroit
Check out this video in Detroit. You guessed it, something is burning!
Chalk up one VES, minus the V, for the bystanders...
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Zen Zone #40
Half of the battle in leading is knowing ourselves best.
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Part II – The Best of Fire & EMS Motivational and Demotivational Posters
These are motivational and/or demotivational posters about our profession(s) of Fire & EMS. Some of them are funny, some are sexy, some are serious.
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