Posts Tagged: Radio
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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This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Disorientation, Radio Problems and RITs Driven Out, Missouri 1999
En route to the scene, the victim had advised the IC that they might have radio problems, due to past experiences with their radios in this type of structure.
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Lone Rangers
Join Jeremy Mitchell as he discusses single companies operating at a structure fire with other resources arriving later in the incident; for example, in brownout, callback or long-distance mutual aid situations. This show will also discuss esta…
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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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Remain Calm, All Is Well
There is enough excitement and confusion already, if we arrive and start screaming, yelling nothing will get done.
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Multiple Rescues on Brooklyn Firefighter’s First Day as Chauffeur
He stopped at the third floor, where the woman and boy were. "They looked like they would jump,"
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Apartment Fire w/ Rescue… Command Presence and NIMS: An Excellent Visual Aid
Andrew Brassard found this video from an El Camino Apartment fire w/ rescue. It is tremendous teaching aid for Incident Commanders. Really, anyone would learn and appreciate the effort of these guys. Very professional, very efficient. Great job to that FD.
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Thinking About Little Things
Tunnel vision, prejudices, attitude, excessive talking - all can turn a fireground sour.
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And the Winners are Iron Firemen and Ambo Driver
Here is the moment you all have been waiting for...
The winners for the Black Diamond Boots Fire & EMS Blog of the Year for 2010-2011 are:
Iron Firemen.com - Fire Category
A Day in the Life of an Ambulance Driver - EMS Category
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Mayday Audio Of Baltimore County Firefighter Tragic LODD In Fire 1/19/2011
Firefighter Mark Falkenhan, 43, was killed last night after becoming trapped and calling a mayday during an apartmentment fire where he suffered massive burns. He leaves behind his wife and 2 children. He was a member of the Lutherville Volunteer Fire Co…
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“Expect Fire” Baltimore, Md.
Clear, concise, level-headed communication is one of the best characteristics a first-due officer can have. Especially when the local alarm turns out to be two floors of heavy fire and the exposures starting to go.
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Essential Emergency Fix
CHARLESTON COUNTY -- The county's consolidated emergency communications system has been touted as a way to provide better response by fire, police and emergency medical services over the whole of Charleston County. Our Sunday news report, however, reveal…
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The Initial On Scene Report
Most in the fire service would agree that our success at any building fire is determined by the actions of the initial arriving units (first alarm assignment). The ability of the first arriving unit to provide a sufficient initial on-scene report will provide other incoming units with the information and direction they need to position and operate in the most efficient manner and, hopefully, take care of the fire safely and quickly. A very useful and effective acronym that I have used is the A-B-C-D Size-up.
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Running The Line: Estimating the Stretch
How come nobody is running around in circles in a state of sheer panic?
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October Training Prompt:
Delays and Reasons Why
Where's the water? Quit your crying and help the boss get around these problems. Remember, side alpha is only one side you see.
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Giving ‘Fast Attack’ A Bad Name?
Houston LODD Differences
"If ‘fast attack’ is intended to mean quick access into the structure and positioning of the hoselines for a quick knockdown, then it is dead-on in probably the majority of working fires in Houston."
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Dunderdale Hits a Triple
Boston's first triple and they're not even in Ft. Myers yet...
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Communication: Boston Firefighter Down
"You are 'hard wired' to either control the situation (a mayday, for example) or you will panic, and show it in your voice."
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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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