Posts Tagged: Strategy
The TruForce is Here!
Safe Firefighter, LLC is proud to announce is newest training partner TroxFire Training Solutions, creator and manufacturer of the TruForce forcible entry training system.
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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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“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”
You've seen the video on Facebook - noise, limited visibility, an increasing urgency to get out. The Front Seat speaks with the video creator as well as picks up on some interesting items on Oklahoma City garden-style apartment fires.
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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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Reading the Building: Just a Glimpse
As you may know, I am playing with a different format. It wont be all of the time for every blog, but something a little different. So, here is one based off an article that I did. Please be patient as I work with this. Hopefully, it will enrich your blog reading.
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Change the Way You Train
Are you looking for quality, cost-effective Fire Service training options? I’m excited to be a part of a new training event series that will bring first-rate education and hands-on training to affordable, regional locations. There are two events this fall from Go>Forward Training...
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Zen Zone #20
You should not have a favorite tactic or weapon. To become over-familiar with one method is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
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Preplanning During EMS Runs
Snapped this picture during an EMS run. Invaluable lessons can be learned by paying attention during non-fire runs.
Some of the things we noted:
1. The additional slide bolt lock on the front door
2. No door knob on the bedroom door
3. Open ligh…
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Not-So-Vacant, Vacants
When most of us think about fighting fires in vacant buildings we envision either urban areas with blocks of old vacants or rural areas with one lonely house hidden in the overgrowth. But we found a random row of empty, new construction, houses in a well-kept suburban area where firefighters generally wouldn't think twice about calling this row "EMPTY" or "VACANT". Presumably, they would set their strategies and tactics in motion accordingly. Here is proof that we can never take things at face value.
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Equations or Effectiveness? Have We Become So Smart We’re Stupid?
How did it come to be this way? Is this truly the future of the fire service, to not fight fires at all? It’s hard to be called out for being wrong when you stand on the side of over-cautiousness with a second helping of safety. And alas that is where the nation’s authors have gone to avoid confrontation, a catch phrase contest on who can be the safest. I have a new catch phrase for you, “Return to Effectiveness”.
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Basics for Understaffed Truck Work: Search
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.
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What Is Your Favorite Attack Line & Nozzle Setup and Why?
Please share with us your tool of choice. You know, the setup that, when the S#!T hits the fan, is your GO-TO line. You can also share your (constructive) opinions on someone else's favorites.
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The Dichotomy of Risk
The internet will be alive with ideas, thoughts and reasons why what happened in DC and Gary shouldn’t have happened.
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Thinking About Little Things
Tunnel vision, prejudices, attitude, excessive talking - all can turn a fireground sour.
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Tool Choice
A six foot rake isn’t going to be a big help if you’re assigned to force entry, just as a Halligan may not be useful if you end up opening ceilings.
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NIOSH Wants To Hear From You
NIOSH is looking for ways to improve the Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program.
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Charlotte FD Video & Modern Residential Construction
When operating at fires in lightweight construction, do your operations change? Do you adapt your strategies, tactics, benchmarks and/or resources? This post includes a very informative video from Charlotte Fire Department of a large fire they fought in a lightweight model home.
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All Hands Working In Bed-Stuy
Knocked with two lines operating, even after being briefly pushed back into the common hall.
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January at Backstep Firefighter
We "covered" January rather well.
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The Sword
While leaders must have the ability to exercise statesmanship, these soft skills are sometimes not fully appreciated unless you can bring some smackdown to the table.
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April at Backstep Firefighter