Posts Tagged: Strategy
LOOK UP…To Save Your Life!
Many of today's risk management theories are used for STRATEGIC LEVEL decision making (i.e. "go" or "no go"). Though “go” or “no go” risk management theories are valid, they are only as good as the information we get when we show up. Firefighters still die in fires that were determined to be “GO” fires. DOES RISK ASSESSMENT STOP AT THE FRONT DOOR? What about TACTICAL LEVEL risk assessment when you are definitely “GOING”? If we want to save firefighters’ lives, we have to start LOOKING UP!
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38 Buildings To Burn:
“Johnny Reb”
A Backstep Firefighter double-header looks at Ogden Utah's live burn opportunity.
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38 Buildings To Burn:
“Billy Yank”
A Backstep Firefighter double-header looks at Ogden Utah's live burn opportunity.
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Preplanning Pays Off For Boston Chief
District 7 chief's first thoughts on arrival were of the Worcester Cold Storage fire.
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August Training Prompt:
Top Floor Fire, Truck Duties
You're the roofman and it's a top floor job. What is expected of you?
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Food for Thought: Pump Pressures for Attack Lines
No matter how much training and/or experience you had as a firefighter, the pressure of being the Driver/Operator, the one responsible for the safety of an attack crew, causes some to question what they know is right.
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Commercial Forcible Entry for Residential Doors
This door is pretty intense and, if not identified recognized on scene, could waste time and energy should we have to gain entry into a building. Essentially, they are high security, reinforced steel doors with up to six (6) dead bolts (controlled by a single lock) and dressed to look like standard residential wooden doors.
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Influential Fire Reports
Understanding the Routine Fire
"A common thread to all of them is how such a routine fire can end in the death of one of our own."
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Influential Fire Report- Firefighters Trapped at the HoJo
He says that when they penciled through the smoke...it was like spraying gasoline onto the fire...the entire area lit up instantly and violently, “like a bomb went off,” as he described it. He reacted by burying himself facedown on the floor, his partner setting the nozzle to wide fog and spraying it above him as a water curtain. It worked and they were able “ride out” the event.
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2nd Ed. First Due Blog Carnival
Call for Posts
What fire report has influenced you? A call for submissions to the First Due Blog Carnival.
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Beating Up on Aggressive Firefighting
"If your department doesn't bring its A-game to each and every fire, the 'aggressive attack' could become an illegal act."
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The Safety Mantra
"FDNY Captain Paddy Brown is quoted as saying, “you can do everything right on this job and still get killed.”"
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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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Giving ‘Fast Attack’ a Bad Name?
Houston LODD Similarities
Is it the actual tactic or is it a string of collective, individual errors making us question Houston's 'fast attack'?
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Primary Search is Negative
"Eventually the line is charged and the fire attack and search continue. The report from the interior is “primary search is negative.” "
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Unscientific Culture Study: Boston
"Cowboys, who do they think they are jumping in there without any SCBA on..."
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Change
"Not a fad, but a change in "culture", a change of delivery."
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Firefighter Netcast. Listen Up
"What, no BOC? no Steve Miller Band? no Rush? what kinda show is this?"
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Collyer Mansion, Part II
"Unable to open the door all the way because of debris, Lieutenant Dooley and his team began passing bags of rubbish out into the public hall."
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Guest Article: The Triangle of Solid Standard Operating Procedures
"Unfortunately there are some officers that subscribe to the “mother may I” mentality. They do not encourage their firefighters to think on their own."
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Size Doesn’t Matter
Being able to teach firefighters from throughout the state gives me the opportunity to listen to, and have discussions with, people from departments of all sizes and demographics. I try to draw from the positive information and purge the negative comme…
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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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First Due Blog Carnival, 2nd Ed.
“Influential Fire Reports”