Posts Tagged: Saw
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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Raw video: St. Louis house fire. Evac order & a close call with a saw.
Fire today in South St. Louis.
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Bread and Butter Vertical Ventilation Video! (Helmet Cam)
This video from FirefighterNation comes from a 1-story duplex fire in Durhan (NC) Fire Deparment. This great helmet cam video shows many good strategies and tactics being executed. You may also see some "tricks" for tool placement/mounting that may expedite your roof/OV operations.
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Lessons Learned: Solid Truck Work Makes for Easy Engine Work
Aggressive tactics and a coordinated effort make a quick stop of a large and challenging fire in a commercial storage building. Solid forcible entry saw work by the Truck Company allowed the Engine Company to access and knockdown the fire which contained it to area of origin.
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Welcome to the FIRE/EMS Blogs Network
Today is my first full day of being part of the Fire/EMS Blog network. I have a ton of new content coming around the corner. However, I am on vacation. I'll be adding articles on LODD as well as an article, from my first contributor, talking about …
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Firefighter Health and Wellness
Are we giving city hall the right information about the importance of firefighter health
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LODD Summary: July 2009
In July there were 6 Line Of Duty Deaths:
Thomas Marovich fell during a rappelling training exercise and suffered fatal traumatic injuries. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Joseph Grace was found unresponsive in the firehouse k…
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RFB: Charleston 9
It’s already been 2 years since the sofa superstore fire in charleston, sc. I was on duty that night, surfing the web when I caught a headline that (at that time) 2 firefighters were missing at a commercial building fire in charleston. My crew stay…
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FDIC & Brotherhood
I recently responded to a post on the thinking man’s fire blog “fire(fighter) behavior”. The post primarily discussed the tremendous training opportunities available at the fire department instructors conference (FDIC) and asked what those who at…
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