Posts Tagged: Type
Learning from the Past: Five Alarm Church Fire and Collapse leads to two Line of Duty Deaths (LODD) and Twenty-Nine Fire Fighter Injuries three hours into the incident
Six years ago on March 13, 2004, two career firefighters with the City of Pittsburg (PA) Fire Bureau were fatally injured during a structural collapse of a bell tower at the Ebenezer Baptist Church fire. Battalion Chief Charles G. Brace (55 years of age)…
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The Case For Credentialing – The Argument
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As discussed in the last post, there are those who are against credentialing, for their own reasons. Because I have had plenty of discu…
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The Case for Credentialing
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I'm about to launch into a multi-part blog to discuss the merits of credentialing. Right now I am aware of …
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The Past Will Continue To Haunt Us
I'm supposed to be working on my final Executive Fire Officer paper but in doing some literature review, I came across a voice from the past. I happened upon a copy of "The Fire Chief's Handbook" from 1978. Now to someone like me, 1978 doesn't sound …
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Growth
If you aren't making mistakes, you aren't reaching far enough. Of course, when we are talking about something like making a decision on dinner, it's one thing, but when it is something where your career is on the line, it's a whole other ballgame.
The p…
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Thoughts While Sitting in Traffic
Sorry for not being around lately. I've had family in town and lots of stuff to do with the wife and girls. However, as I returned home from work the other day (this is at about 0645 in the morning), I was riding side-by-side with a vehicle best describe…
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Firefighting as Asymetrical Warfare
There used to be a day when warriors considered it less than chivalrous to take cover or to shoot from a prone position. Most of us in this millennium probably would never consider it a good idea to stand up and march forward upright into a withering h…
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Let's Take an Unemotional Look at the Problem
While I have been pursuing the discussion on The Kitchen Table only peripherally as I have been very busy lately, I noted an undertone of something that I guess has nagged at me for quite some time. After thinking about it for a few days, I realized th…
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