A working start to the early morning in the old hometown.
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Small fire in a vacant warehouse reveals a 70-year old squatter.
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First due fire for 44 and others in the 4th Battalion.
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Three alarms struck within 10 minutes of the box alarm.
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Education Pay Off: Rookie’s First Day, Detailed To The Rescue, Catches a Job, Makes a Grab
1 commentFall River rookie hits the fire service trifecta his first day at work.
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“Broken Rules”
Backstep’s Dave LeBlanc Reports on Lowell Truck Officer’s Account of October Fire, Rescue Caught on Tape, Told to MFA Graduates
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Recruits learn from rescues at working fire that fire service rules must be flexible if they are to have any impact on people trapped and training must be grounded in the basics.
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28-year member assigned to Ladder Company 102 pulls 4-month old from fire.
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Videos from today’s four alarm fire shows high-rise blanket was placed into operation.
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Underwriters Laboratory provides you with a wealth of new information on ventilation and fire behavior in the modern home.
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Los Angeles’ USAR team gets called out to fatal house fire in order to stabilize structure.
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Date and registration are set continuing Andy’s legacy.
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Your moment of zen…
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Case For The Asterisk – Revisited
Or, “How Dieing While Doing Something Illegal Can Still Get You LODD Honors”
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Two names to be read aloud at Emmitsburg all because of stupidity. But, hey, they’re part of that traditional ’100 die a year’ so let’s salute them anyway.
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Reporting of Vermont house fire rescue emphasizes “rule breaker” persona and, well, very little else.
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Serious about reducing line of duty deaths? Serious about improving awareness of firefighter health? Let’s see just how serious.
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Clear, concise, level-headed communication is one of the best characteristics a first-due officer can have. Especially when the local alarm turns out to be two floors of heavy fire and the exposures starting to go.
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P.G. Working:
Landover – no, Hyattsville…uh, Kentland? FedEx Field? Capitol Heights?…Ritchie?
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P.G.’s new chief takes in a job that appears to have multiple addresses.
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Members of Tower 10 respond to a heart attack victim at a Huntington Ave. site.
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Pretty much sums up the year.
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Dave LeBlanc uses recent training and a LODD to keep flashover fresh in out minds.
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Kansas City Flashover, Mayday:
Raw Video Interview Highlights Burnt Line, Backup Line and Area of Refuge
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Kansas City firefighters working on a Saturday morning house fire experience a flashover and mayday call.
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P.G. volunteers give back to the locals who need it more.
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Firefighters working on the primary searched were forced out windows.
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You’ll never know what kind of caption lies behind that working fire photo.
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The 2011 Firefighter
7 commentsTrained and confident? Or tentative and fearful?
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