Posts Tagged: Niosh
Colerain and Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today
Eleven Minutes to Mayday: Lessons from 2008 Resonate Today
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Auto Parts Store Roof Collapse Double LODD 1996
Two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when they became trapped by a rapidly spreading fire in an auto parts store and a pre-engineered wood truss roof assembly collapsed on them.
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Maintaining a Relationship with your SCBA
NIOSH's Jaclyn Krah shows one way that you can show you care to your sweetie.
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Protecting Lives
"We must constantly evaluate the environment we are in and try to determine if the conditions will allow us to continue with our task."
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Close the Door for Life!
From our very beginning in New Amsterdam, the role of the fire service was to be proactive and save lives through fire prevention. In 1647 Fire wardens would inspect houses and chimneys, fining the owners for potential hazards, to prevent fires from happ…
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Follow up on Wytheville … Damn that evil Captain Wines and his mustache!
So many of these questions/factors could have fatal consequences if not answered / addressed. Do they have the "it will never happen here" mentality? I hope not.... the results can be devastating.
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Lesson Not Learned
Texas, Tennessee and Emmitsburg
Why Does Johnny Not Read?
Everyone went home so who the hell cares?
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NIOSH report: Zachary Whitacre, Virginia firefighter who fell off rear step of tanker headed to fill site at West Virginia fire. Father was driving rig.
Water dumped by another tanker created black ice near spill site.
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NIOSH reports: LODDs of Asheville, NC’s Capt. Jeff Bowen & Baltimore Co., MD’s FF Mark Falkenhan.
Read reports and related coverage and information.
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So What Are We Supposed to Do?
It is easy to look backwards at an event and say that things should have been done differently and there would have been another outcome.
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Rhetorical Lesson No.10
Profiling and Pets
If VSP is to reduce risk of injury and death it should apply to searching for the Golden Doodle, right?
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“Getting it Done”
Absurdity on Alabama Fireground
Where is the disconnect? What about the message isn't reaching every fire department? Why do we think we're invincible?
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Human Behavior
5 Years Later, We Can’t Shake It
While we echo “remembering the fallen and their sacrifice,” we let them die in vain when we don’t challenge our own behavior to see if the same mistakes are lurking in the dark, waiting to be repeated in our fire.
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9-11 health fund to cover 50 different types of cancers. NIOSH ruling issued today.
Ruling would allow for compensation and treatment, but is still open for comment.
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The Ides of March: Learning and Remembrance
Take the opportunity to identify the common themes and apparent causes of some past events.
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Wind Driven Fires
Wind blowing into the broken window of a room on fire can turn a "routine room and contents fire" into a floor-to-ceiling firestorm.
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FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998
FDNY Brooklyn Box 4080: 17 Vandalia Avenue 12.18.1998
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Remembering Brackenridge 1991 Floor Collapse and LODD
Remembering Brackenridge 1991 Floor Collapse and LODD
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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Poor Operations and Flashover Kill Three, Iowa 1999
It is believed that the three victims were hit with a thermal blast of heat before the handline burned through.
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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Collapse Six Minutes After Under Control, Chicago 2010
The T-16 crew proceeded into the structure and observed a small amount of rubbish burning on the ground.
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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004
" - it was reported that all at once it sounded like firefighters were yelling “back out, back out” and “bail out.”"
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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Pre-Planning and Disorientation, New York 2003
"The officer and nozzle man from E95 thought they heard a scream from inside the fire building. "
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IAFF Cancer Study Newsletter,
Issue 1
First word out on work done so far investigating firefighter cancer.
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A Tale of Two Fires
VSP will never save a firefighter that fails to wear his seatbelt, that drives like an Indy car racer, or eats his double cheeseburger on a jelly donut.
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“You Can’t Handle the Truth”