Posts Tagged: Firefighting Operations 2
Checking your Compass
As a Company Officer; have you checked your compass lately? Do you know where you are?
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It’s back: Raw video & fireground audio from Murphy, Texas fire reposted.
The video vanished into thin air shortly after STATter911.com posted it.
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Ten Minutes in the Street: Report of Smoke in the Area
It always starts out this way…..a quiet Saturday afternoon.
The shift tour has been fairly quiet or you just happened to stop into the fire station for a cup of coffee and some kitchen table talk in the day room.
The bells/tones…
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NIOSH LODD Report Issued: Fire Department faulted in firefighter deaths
NIOSH Released its report (F2010-18) on the July 24, 2010 house fire that resulted in the two fire fighter LODDs. Bridgeport fire officials' failure on nearly every level led to the deaths of two firefighters battling a West Side blaze last July, the NIO…
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USFA Releases Restaurant Building Fires Report
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) United States Fire Administration (USFA) has issued a special report exam…
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Gypsum Board Ceiling Systems and Firefigher Safety
The recent events in Los Angeles and the line of duty death of veteran LAFD Firefighter Glenn Allen who died Friday from injuries he sustained when a ceiling collapsed on him in a house fire late Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills again gives us paus…
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New video from Fairfax County two-alarm fire shows flashover that injured three firefighters.
Video taken by neighbor as firefighters made initial attack.
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Chicago: Anatomy of a Building and its Collapse-PDF Download
Chicago: Anatomy of a Building and its Collapse PDF Training AidThe recent post titled: Chicago: Anatomy of a Building and its Collapse has been receiving a considerable amount of attention as the post makes its way throughout the fire service eMedia sit…
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Chicago: Anatomy of a Building and its Collapse
The single story commercial structure was vacant, however it was readily known that squatters were known to seek shelter in the abandoned structure especially give the harsh weather being experienced in the city.
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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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Stuck In The Past
When your organization is experiencing such dysfunction that it is obvious even to the newest recruit, then how clueless are you to insist that everything is coming up roses?
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