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Voting for Your Favorite Fire and/or EMS Blog of 2012
Voting has begun for the Blog of the Year 2012. Vote for your favorite Fire & EMS Blog now through the 21st!
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Best of the Rest – Shaved Heads, Daytona 500 Fire, The Bowring, The Hose Jockey, and a Great Article to Read
Shaved Heads, Daytona 500 Fire, The Bowring, The Hose Jockey, 9/11 Memorial Stair Climbs, Bladensburg Update, IronFiremen.com exclusive, Social Media, and a Great Article to Read
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Great article on Smartphone Apps for Firefighters
I have written about smartphone apps in the past, but FireRescue1 has an article with many more...and plenty of information on them.
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Teen Charged in Fake 911 Call that led to Fire Truck Crash. His Fault or not?
A teenager in Connecticut was charged with making a false 911 call. The problem isn't just the prank call. The problem is that a fire truck crashed on the way to the call.
What do you think? I agree that it is wrong to make fake 911 calls, but do you think it is his fault for the fire truck crashing?
Should the punishment be more severe?
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Dr. Stefan Svensson Insults America’s Bravest at FRI
HUH? Speak for yourself. You are not talking about my department...not our firefighters. That is where some of this got personal. That the IAFC would allow this guy to come back and give a similar talk to 2007.
Maybe I am missing something. Maybe I don't have a clue about firefighting at all. Maybe all of the great instructors in the American fire service don't have a clue and we need a wake up call from a Dr. in Sweden.
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Complacency
Complacency is a subject that seems to surface repeatedly in our business, a business that requires constant vigilance. It strikes all of us at one point or another. The cure, sadly enough, seems to be getting stung.
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Shut Up
Perhaps part of the problem in anonymity is that people feel compelled to say what they think, which in this and more than a few other cases, isn't much.
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Quick Takes: December 22, 2010
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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Indoor Video of a Catastrophic Fire Event
When a catastrophic fire event takes place as you are crawling through the burning box, does it really matter whether it's a flashover, backdraft, smoke explosion, etc.?
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Monday Morning Shoutout – The Kitchen Table
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes to the Kitchen Table is a blog offered by FireRescue1.com.
The Kitchen Table blog is a place for the growing online firefighting community to get the daily buzz. As the firehouse kitchen table is where firefighters…
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Saturday Hotshot – Spain's wildfires continue to rage
Six firefighters have died in wildfires in Spain. Video coverage is below. The image is from here.
More footage here
here
and here
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Son saves dad in killer avalanche
A 23 year old used a tracking beacon in a life or death search to save his father. The two were skiing in the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand when they were overtaken by an avalanche. Once the avalanche stopped, Gus Castran freed him…
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New Video from Camberwell Fire in England
The Fire Critic first reported this incident here. Apparently, some newer footage has been released on the incident included below. I noticed some interesting things in the video, the most interesting being the car sitting on its side. It appears as thou…
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For all you Crusty Old Firemen
Here is a video to help all you crusty old firemen explain to the newest generation how it used to be (somewhat) and how fortunate the new generation should be. The insight is comical, yet very true. Eat your heart out! While I don't think this will clos…
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4-Alarm Fire Rages At South San Francisco Food Factory
From CBS5.com
Firefighters continued to battle a four-alarm structure fire at the Columbus Food manufacturing plant in South San Francisco Thursday morning.
The fire was first was reported at a warehouse at 465 Cabot Road just after 2 a.m., the dispa…
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Alleged Sex Scandal At Atlantic City Fire Station
From MyFoxPhilly.com
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Officials in Atlantic City are investigating an alleged sex scandal involving three firefighters.
A source tells Fox 29 News that a mother of a teenage girl found a cell phone picture of her daughter wearing fi…
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