Posts Tagged: Ladders
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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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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RIC Refresher Breakdown
Saws, irons, ladders and rescues were the flavor of week for our brothers in Bluffton, SC. Safe Firefighter, LLC just wrapped up a RIC Refresher for the Bluffton Township Fire District. Training included calling the Mayday, self-rescue, rapid intervention crew assignments and operations and performing proactive RIC tasks.
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“We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
Engine 42 Lieutenant Catches Boy and Provides Training Questions for Engine Companies
Lieutenant's catch helps us give you some valuable questions your engine company should try and answer - before the fire.
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Trabajo lateral del carro de Charlie
The second-due truck is not just an "extra company" but an important assignment. Take a look and see if your truck can handle the rear, por favor.
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Release the Ladder Rack!
As apparatus drivers when we pull up to the scene of a working fire we are thinking about charging the appropriate line, getting the right gallons per minute to your interior crews and finding a water supply source before the tank water is exhausted. That is a lot to do and you normally do it all on your own. Well, there is one more thing I would like you to add to your list.
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Who Should be at the Tip?
Where your SCBA and all PPE when in and around an IDLH. Officers must make sure their people are safe at all times.
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Working Off Ladders
Don't forget the basics. Let's keep ourselves safe on ladders. Use your leg locks and/or lodder belts.
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Know What’s Around You
This picture is of a mutli-family complex that is completely built of light-weight wood frame. It is important for you know what is being built in your jurisdiction and to plan how you will handle an incident at these locations.
Depending on wha…
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Cocoanut Grove Anniversary
On Novemeber 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub was full of friends and family celebrating the holiday season and a college football upset. That night would prove to be one of the worst public assembly tragedies that America has ever seen.
The f…
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Routine Preplanning
This picture doesn't show anything spectactular or out of place. What it does show is what every community in every jurisdiction has; subdivisions.
These subdivisions will have dozens to hundreds of houses built by a single contractor or just a hand…
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A Year Ago Today
It was a year ago today that terrorists started fires in the Mumbai Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai, India. It was obiously during a holiday and many tourists were visiting the luxury complex. Other facilities were targeted and when the ordeal…
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MGM Grand Fire
We are just a few days past the anniversary of the MGM Grand Hotel fire that claimed the lives of 85 people and injuring 14 firefighters.
The facility was allowed to open without fire protection systems and the fire that started on the lower levels an…
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Understaffed Truck Work: Ladders
Most fire departments, if they are even lucky enough to staff a truck company, often struggle with how to maximize the tasks that the truck can accomplish on the fireground. Since times are tough and budgets are tougher, increasing staffing is unlikely…
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Fire Attack: Nozzle Firefighter Basics
Once you’ve scene the video from the “Straight Stream vs. Fog” post (January 13, 2009), you may have a new appreciation for using a straight stream during interior fire attack. Next we’ll look at a few ways to make the interior fire attack more…
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New SCBA Technology
Check out this link! This is a prototype for a new SCBA design that could significantly improve firefighter safety while operating at building fires and, hopefully, improve firefighter health through stress reduction.
As we all know, the only reason…
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