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First Due Friday; Heavy Smoke from a Commercial

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at January 13, 2012 at 8:25 am
Check out this "soupy" commercial job in PG County, MD. Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement. Ready...Go! Read More »

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Video Highlights Quick Work by Minimum Staffed Crews

By in Backstep Firefighter at January 7, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Submitter of a past Backstep article is seen on tape hustling the hoselines. Read More »

First Due Friday; 2-Story Balloon Frame Rockin’ on the Peninsula

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at January 6, 2012 at 12:34 pm
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! Read More »

Everett Firefighters Prevail in Staffing Related Unfair Labor Practice

By in Fire Law at December 21, 2011 at 12:04 am
The Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission has ruled in favor of Everett Firefighters IAFF Local 46 on an unfair labor practice claim against the City of Everett. The December 2, 2011 ruling concluded that it was improper for the city to… Read More »

2012 Class and Event Planning In Progress

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at December 19, 2011 at 12:09 pm
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. Read More »

First Due Friday; Truck Arrives First at a House Fire

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at December 16, 2011 at 8:30 am
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. Read More »

First Due Friday: “Big Box” Search

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at December 9, 2011 at 10:13 am
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we'll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation. Read More »

A HUGE “LET DOWN”

By in Iron Firemen at November 3, 2011 at 7:15 am
Our strategies and tactics must change and adapt to the environments in which we are placed. I'm not so sure that our training methods and text books shouldn't be changed as well. I mean we may as well be teaching single firefighter techniques right? Why teach and drill into a rookies head the "team concept" when in reality, they are gonna end up on the nozzle or searching alone? Read More »

Real World Staffing
Required Reading for The Front Seat Program on Firefighter Netcast

By in Backstep Firefighter at October 27, 2011 at 7:55 pm
We'll be talking about the nation's only 2-man ladder company. What? You say there are other minimum staffed companies out there? No way! Read More »

Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.1:
Gastonia, North Carolina

By in Backstep Firefighter at October 9, 2011 at 8:00 am
NC engine company sets up their hosebed to make the best use of not only their three-man crew, but the second-due three-man engine company as well. Read More »

Does overtime use equal abuse? Dave takes on a reporter’s claim about the DC Fire & EMS Department. Plus, Chief Ellerbe pushes forward with his shift change plan.

By in STATter911.com at October 7, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Dave wants the reporter to present some facts. The chief wants to do away with 24-hour shifts. Read More »

Two and Three-Man Crews – We Want You!

By in Backstep Firefighter at October 6, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Does your wagon driver get dressed and don SCBA, to back you up on the line, after he's changed that line? If so, then we want to hear from you! Read More »

Another Multiple Alarm Fire in Camden, NJ

By in The Company Officer at June 11, 2011 at 11:41 am
[caption id="attachment_1691" align="aligncenter" width="303" caption="An Eight Alarm Fire Hit Camden on Saturday morning"][/caption] A huge fire early this morning has engulfed a three-story warehouse in downtown Camden, two days after another massiv… Read More »

Station Closures, Budget Cuts, Staffing Cuts…and the Race Card

By in The Fire Critic at May 17, 2011 at 11:02 am
Silberberg's article is a well written piece meant to get people to their feet. To educate them that cuts to public safety can effect anyone and everyone. That public safety cuts are not the answer and that cuts MUST be made elsewhere! Mahnoney's article is meant to get firefighters to stand up. To educate the poorer communities that public safety cuts show that their governement does not care about them if they are willing to cut their services. Read More »

It Happened Again…Brownouts Blamed in Delayed Response during Medical Emergency

By in The Fire Critic at May 13, 2011 at 6:33 pm
It took around 2 years for the Cape Coral Fire Department (Florida) to learn a very costly lesson about brownouts. Firefighters don't need to look any further for proof that brownouts don't make sense and are unfair and unsafe for citizens. As a firefighter, I really want to say "We told you so", but that isn't professional. Indeed, firefighters have been pointing to brownouts being unfair and unsafe for citizens, but in this case it might have cost someone their life. Read More »

Basics for Understaffed Truck Work: Search

By in S.A.F.E. Firefighter at May 11, 2011 at 9:00 am
By searching for victims and fire, we can increase the speed of fire attack and extinguishment which creates a safer fireground for everyone. This post will detail how to get the most out of your search despite various staffing levels. Read More »

Victim Survivability Profiling.
A Clarification

By in Backstep Firefighter at May 7, 2011 at 2:36 pm
“Every situation is a situation” and the fire you are responding to is one that you are seeing for the first time. Read More »

April at Backstep Firefighter

By in Backstep Firefighter at May 4, 2011 at 9:18 pm
April saw discussions primarily centered on risk, sizeup and personal responsibility. Read More »

Oregon Working: The Two-Men Engine Company

By in Backstep Firefighter at April 28, 2011 at 1:51 pm
For some of you, three on the engine or truck is a luxury. Others at times wish they had three. This highlights a point in our education that I hear and read of many times from suburban and rural firefighters. Read More »

Multiple Rescues on Brooklyn Firefighter’s First Day as Chauffeur

By in Backstep Firefighter at April 25, 2011 at 3:14 pm
He stopped at the third floor, where the woman and boy were. "They looked like they would jump," Read More »

Who to believe: Judge in Rhode Island & professor in Georgia come to different conclusions about a connection between safety & firefighter staffing.

By in STATter911.com at April 13, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Judge rules against union on ladder shut down, but study doesn't seem to support judge's findings. Read More »

The Right View Point of the Fire Service

By in Command Safety at April 5, 2011 at 7:40 pm
This video speaks for itself, no other comments required; Listen in..... Read More »

FD Cuts Overtime Amid Budget Concerns

By in South Carolina on Fire at April 3, 2011 at 10:37 pm
  HORRY COUNTY -- With over 200 firefighters on staff, Chief Garry Alderman is ordering his team to cut out overtime to help save money inside his public safety department. In an email to Horry County Fire Rescue workers, Chief Alderman stres… Read More »

Now that’s a firefighter protest. In Brussels, they don’t just say it, they spray it.

By in STATter911.com at March 26, 2011 at 9:47 am
Firefighters foam down the cops. Read More »

Chesapeake (VA) Auto Parts Store Roof Collapse Double LODD 1996

By in Command Safety at March 19, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Two firefighters were killed in Chesapeake, Virginia when they became trapped by a rapidly spreading fire. Read More »

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