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The Ides of March: Learning and Remembrance

By in The Company Officer at March 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Take the opportunity to identify the common themes and apparent causes of some past events. Read More »

Residential Fire Injures Seven Firefighters: Wind Driven Conditions Suspected

By in Command Safety at February 25, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Residential Fire Injures Seven Firefighters: Wind Driven Conditions Suspected. Apparent wind driven condition contributed to rapidly escalating fire conditions resulting in extreme fire behavior during initial fire suppression operations being coordinated at a single family residential dwelling (SFD) fire Friday night February 24th in Riverdale, MD Read More »

Tabletop Training for the Weekend “Rubbish Fire”

By in Command Safety at August 27, 2011 at 9:58 am
This special weekend edition of Ten Minutes in the Street TM is being offered on CommandSafety.com and is taking advantage of a training video produced by the LAFD in 2009 that involved a basis initial dispatch to a report of a rubbish fire that escalates into two structure fires and resulted in multiple alarm operations. Challenge your personnel and discuss and tabletop the incident scenario based on your operational and orgnizational profile and resources. Read More »

Ten Minutes in the Street: The First-Due

By in The Company Officer at August 25, 2011 at 2:44 pm
This edition of Ten Minutes in the Street TM is looking at the considerations for the first-due engine company upon arrival at a well involved single family residential house fire. Arrivals and subsequent deployments during night time periods pose ever increasing challenges to arriving officers in the ability to ascertain and recognize factors that will have a direct or ancillary affect in the developing incident action plan, tactics and task assignments. Read More »

Flags at the NFFF Memorial; SFFD LODD

By in Command Safety at June 3, 2011 at 3:46 am
[caption id="attachment_2444" align="aligncenter" width="574" caption="National Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial this morning"][/caption] The flags at the National Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial at the National Fire Academy are once again lowered this morn… Read More »

Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call

By in The Company Officer at March 15, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Taking it to the Streets: Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call On Your Street, In Your City, Across the Country, Around the WorldTM      Join us on Wednesday night March 16th at 9:00 pm ET for an insightful discussion on the Nation… Read More »

Taking it to the Streets: Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call

By in Command Safety at March 11, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Taking it to the Streets: Near Miss Reporting and One Captain’s Close Call On Your Street, In Your City, Across the Country, Around the WorldTM            Join us on Wednesday night March 16th at 9:00 pm ET for an insightful discussion on … Read More »

The Ides of March

By in Command Safety at March 8, 2011 at 6:53 pm
   Operational Safety Here are five (5) NIOSH Firefighter LODD Event report summaries for incidents that occurred in the March 4th through the 8th time frame in the years 1998, 2001, 2002, 2008.    Take the time to look over the e… Read More »

LAFD LODD: Hollywood Hills Mansion Investigating Building Standards

By in Command Safety at February 25, 2011 at 10:24 am
According to published reports; "The city of Los Angeles has stringent building codes, and those building codes are made not only to protect residents, but also to protect our firefighters," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told KTLA. "So we're looking into what exactly was the situation at that house." Read More »

Ten Minutes in the Street: “A Little Smoke Showin’?”

By in Command Safety at November 23, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Vol10NO08 Ten Minutes in the Streets with Christopher Naum Ten Minutes in the Street A Buildingsonfire.com Series Interactive Scenarios, Where YOU Make the Call Ten Minutes in the Street is back, bringing you insightful and provoking street scenarios… Read More »

Vacant Residential Building Fires Report

By in Command Safety at November 19, 2010 at 7:42 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) United States Fire Administration (USFA) issued a special report examining the characteristics of fires in vacant residential buildings. The report, Vacant Residential Building Fires, was developed by … Read More »

Vacant Residential Building Fires Report

By in The Company Officer at August 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) United States Fire Administration (USFA) issued a special report examining the characteristics of fires in vacant residential buildings. The report, Vacant Residential Building Fires, was developed by US… Read More »

More Company Discussions:You Are the Boss!

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at March 17, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Deploy your resources accordingly through what ever a first alarm will bring you. If you want to expand your alarms, hey, have at it. Read More »

Vent, Enter and Search

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 20, 2010 at 7:19 am
Would you use VES on this fire? What tactics would you use instead or in addition too to search for occupants? Read More »

Venting the Roof

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 17, 2010 at 10:12 am
Take a look at this video and let me know what you see. I posted the still frame from this video and had some great responses. Now, here is the whole thing. What do you see and what would you do different if anything? Read More »

How to Deploy

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 16, 2010 at 8:22 am
Assign your crews to tasks on this house fire with rescue. They are all sitting at the front door, but you need them elsewhere. Where do you put them and why? Read More »

Chief on Scene and In the Smoke

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 12, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Chiefs need to remember their tasks and responsibilities on the fire ground. As aggresssive as you want to be, stay safe and set the example. Read More »

Kitchen Table Tactics 1-11-2010

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 11, 2010 at 7:47 am
Your first in with limited resources. Possible victims trapped. How do you handle this one? Read More »

Kitchen Table Tactics 1-10-10

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 10, 2010 at 8:48 am
What would you do if you were the first arriving company officer on this fire? What are the main considerations with this house? Share and post your answers and thoughts. Read More »

Kitchen Table Tactics 1-7-10

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 7, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Give us your tactics and strategies for this large residential fire. Share you thoughts and ideas on how you would tackle this fire as the first arriving company officer or commanding officer. Read More »

Mississippi SB 2079: Attack on Residential Sprinklers

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 6, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Another state selling out public safety: bill will essentially not allow local jurisdictions and municipalities to adopt residential sprinkler ordinances. Read More »

Roof Ops

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at January 6, 2010 at 11:33 am
Should we be putting firefighters at risk during defensive operations? Read More »

Kitchen Table Tactics

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at December 30, 2009 at 10:07 am
What have we got here? What is you size up? What is you first impression as you are driving up the drive about line placement and life safety considerations? What is your first action when stepping out of the apparatus and why? Are there any s… Read More »

Safety, Safety, Safety!

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at December 30, 2009 at 9:53 am
[caption id="attachment_357" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Is he wearing everything he should be?"][/caption] This should be obvious to most who look at this picture. We have a fully charged house fire and we are venting. There is no doubt … Read More »

Venting the Roof

By in A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy at December 29, 2009 at 10:41 am
Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? Using a roof ladder is a good thing.  Working in teams is a good thing.  What are some hazards we see here? What is the main problem with this operation?  Post your responses and I will post mine later… Read More »

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