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Rhetorical Lesson No.3:
Learning Disabled

After a forest of trees are cut for the reports and herds of dead horses are pummeled, some people still don’t get it.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 28, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training & Development • Tagged: "Fire Critic", "Iron Firemen", "standard operating procedures", lodd, Philosophy, Rhetoric, sizeup, strategy, tactics

Why We Search: Prague

Fires in vacant buildings aren’t exclusive to the U.S. Neither are associated deaths.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 28, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", abandoned, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, unoccupied, vacant

Morale Builder: Providence

Sometimes, all the news seems bleak and looking around at all the current dead horse debates, the fire service looks like the day after Little Big Horn.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 26, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", morale

October Training Prompt:
Delays and Reasons Why

A San Francisco apartment fire garnered a lot of attention from the customers about where the water was. Take this misunderstanding and turn it into a list of ‘What if…” drills.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 22, 2010 • Filed under: 30-Second Drill, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "standard operating procedures", 30-Second Drill, communications, drill, radio, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

Rhetorical Lesson No.2: Punishment

In a game and culture that promotes hard knocks, punishment comes on the heels of safety and player best-interests.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 21, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training & Development • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", lodd, Philosophy, Rhetoric, safety

Remembrance Challenge Answer

A fire on this day took the lives of at least one from every rank.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 17, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Line of Duty, Rescues, Special Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "standard operating procedures", communications, construction, drill, fdny, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, training

Remembrance Challenge

Challenging you to do more than wear a sticker or say “never forget.”

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 16, 2010 • Filed under: Commentary, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Line of Duty, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "fire behavior", construction, rescue, safety, sizeup, training

When Seconds Count,
You Don’t Have Minutes To Lose

Dave LeBlanc offers a practical solution to offset the current trend of reduced staffing and brownouts. It’s called showing up, ready to work.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on October 14, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Funding & Staffing, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "fire behavior", politics, rescue, sizeup, sogs, sops, staffing, strategy, tactics, training

Vent, Enter, Search Reward In Illinois

Illinois department has an amazing payoff when they use a recently practiced tactic.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 13, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "truck company", rescue, sizeup, tactics, training

Why We Search: Oak Park, IL

After the previous owner left, six months ago, the home was “vacant.”

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 12, 2010 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", abandoned, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, vacant

Why We Search: Baltimore

Training, education, experience and the fact that you don’t know unless you go in.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 10, 2010 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", abandoned, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, vacant

DCFD Receives New HazMat PPE

Betcha didn’t know they had them, did ya? Even better than those bulky ones NASA wears.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 8, 2010 • Filed under: Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: dcfd, hazmat, PPE

PGFD
“Keepin it Safe” for “The Man”

The President comes to Bowie and brings his own medic-locals.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 7, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, News, Patient Management, Videos • Tagged: "PGFD", "PGFEMS"

Tiller Video Requiem

A tradition fades for one Massachusetts fire department.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 7, 2010 • Filed under: News, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus, Videos • Tagged: "truck company", massachusetts

Maryland Firefighters Recognized for Apartment Fire Rescues

A working definition of an engine “company”, six members are recognized for their work in rescuing occupants and knocking down the fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 4, 2010 • Filed under: Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "PGFD", engine, Hyattsville, rescue

Firefighter Mentality Revisited

As future work begins to look at being “wired” for firefighting, a review of an earlier article is necessary.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 4, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Firefighter Mentality", "standard operating procedures", communications, drill, Philosophy, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, staffing, strategy, tactics, training

Lesson in Awareness:
Mogadishu and Complacency

Seven years ago this day one of the world’s greatest military forces got its chops busted. Learn how some mistakes happen long before the battle starts.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 3, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", communications, lodd, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

Nothing Good Happens At 3 A.M.

“Combat Ready” is not a slick ad slogan or an “aggressive” cliche. That call for bells at 0300 may be the only jump you get. How prepared will you be?

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 2, 2010 • Filed under: 30-Second Drill, Command & Leadership, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "standard operating procedures", dcfd, drill, rescue, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

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