Posts Tagged: Water
What About Water?
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Join Jeremy Mitchell as he discusses the risks and benefits of the first in engine establishing a water supply via hydrant or other source versus initiating attack with tank water. This is a subject near and…
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Zen Zone #36
What form do you provide to create energy?
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Gypsum Board Ceiling Systems, Ceiling Collapse and Firefighter Safety
We're posting the ROTW alert in it's entirety below and are expanding upon this discussion to include materials previously posted on Buildingsonfire.com from the posts that surrounded the LAFD LODD of Firefighter Glenn L. Allen
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Caught On Video: Kingsport (TN) Firefighters Rescue Woman From River
Kingsport Tennessee firefighters were dispatched to a woman stranded on the roof of her car in the middle of the Holston River. Witnesses state the driver drove down a hill and into the river without ever slowing down. Our guess is that she was updating …
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Gypsum Board Ceiling Systems and Firefigher Safety
The recent events in Los Angeles and the line of duty death of veteran LAFD Firefighter Glenn Allen who died Friday from injuries he sustained when a ceiling collapsed on him in a house fire late Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills again gives us paus…
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Safety Officer Alert: When The Guys At The Station See This Video … Watch Out!
[fblike]The 2011 Jetlev Flyer is now available for purchase. That's all well and good for average people. However, further examination of this new recreational vehicle tells me that a fire station shift of 5-8 could put this together in about 2 hours fla…
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Adapting–The Rest of the Story
So, lesson 1 is big fire equals big water. If the fire is advanced enough that you will run out of water, it wont make any difference what size your line is. But, the larger line will put out more fire in that short amount of time.
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Steam Heat Synergy
I end the week with a pretty cool video that hopefully will inspire you as a PIO to try just a little bit harder and go just a little bit further.
We all learned during our Firefighter I that when water converts from liquid to vapor at 212°F, it expands 1,700 times its volume. Water can only be as hot as 212ºF, but steam reaches thousands of degrees in temperature, which can not only be potentially fatal to us but also very uncomfortable and often the cause of serious injury. That one degree difference should always be on our mind when it comes to ventilation tactics and nozzle choice.
That one extra degree to steam can make a world of difference in how we react on the fireground and the potential outcome.
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Quick Takes
Our news digest: Must hear fireground audio from Buffalo; The "Chicago way" controversy; Water problems on two different fires along with explanations; Raw video from NJ 3-alarm fire; Three videos from Northeastern, Pennsylvania.
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Restaurant fire spreads to furniture store. Video from downtown Jonesville, Michigan.
Lots of video from a fire consuming a restaurant and furniture store in Jonesville, Michigan.
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Picking up the Plug, maybe….
There’s been some recent issues that have centered on adequacy of existing water supply systems and pre-fire planning information that should be available to incident commanders and company officers to assist in the identification of appropria…
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Understanding the New Building-Occupancy Relationships
Without understanding the building-occupancy relationships and integrating;construction, occupancies, fire dynamics and fire behavior, risk, analysis, the art and science of firefighting, safety conscious work environment concepts and effective and well-…
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It’s Not Always Business as Usual
How much thought and efforts do you place on looking beyond the routiness of our response operations? You know, the redundancy, routiness and frequency of typical calls you run, the types of fire you engage in and the manner in which your company interfa…
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Yvorra Leadership Development Foundation
Yvorra Leadership Development FoundationI had the pleasure of knowing and working with Chief Yvorra back in the early 1980's when I bunked in and rode with PGFD Station 14 in Berwyn Heights, Maryland during my many trips to the MFRI and the UofM at Colle…
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2008 USFA LODD Report
You should make time this weekend and slide on over to the United States Fire Administration (USFA) web site HERE. USFA Report HEREThe United States Fire Administration (USFA) released the report Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2008. Th…
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Ninety-Nine days of Opportunity
The fire service is beginning to fully recognize the merits in adjusting, altering, and changing our strategic and tactical ways of doing business in the streets. The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all…
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Take a Good Look Around
Have you stopped for a minute today and taken a good look around? Whether you’re sitting in the front seat at the stop light of an intersection or as you’re peering out the side cab window coming back from an alarm or while running errands in your P…
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Honor and Remembrance
For many of us, the events of September 11th, 2001 will forever be etching into our minds and hearts. The magnitude and severity of the sacrifices made that day by the FDNY as well as the NYPD, EMS and PANY/NJ uphold the tradition, beliefs, values and id…
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Tactical Renaissance
My most recent post that stated and advocated that fire suppression tactics must be adjusted for the rapidly changing methods and materials impacting all forms of building construction, occupancies and structures. The need to redefine the art and science…
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It’s Occupancy Risk not Occupancy Type
The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all occupancy types coupled with correlating, established and pragmatic operational strategies and tactics MUST not only be questioned, they need to be adjusted and m…
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