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Salisbury Working:
Garden Apartment Off

A working start to the early morning in the old hometown.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 30, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "apartment fire", "chief officers", "garden-style apartment", "Salisbury, MD", sizeup

The 2011 Firefighter

Trained and confident? Or tentative and fearful?

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 30, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Everyone Goes Home", "firefighter netcast", "standard operating procedures", communications, drill, firefighter, Philosophy, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, staffing, strategy, tactics, training

Why We Search: Philadelphia
One “Rat” Unable to “Scatter Away”

Small fire in a vacant warehouse reveals a 70-year old squatter.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 28, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Line of Duty, News, Rescues, Strategy Reconsidered • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "public relations", "standard operating procedures", "Victim Survivability Profiling", abandoned, homelessness, Philadelphia, rescue, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, unoccupied, vacant, vagrants, warehouse

P.G. Working:
Christmas Day Box for Engine Co.44

First due fire for 44 and others in the 4th Battalion.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 26, 2010 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "Local 1619", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "Prince George's County Fire EMS"

Boston Working:
Mutual Aid to Chelsea 3rd Alarm

Three alarms struck within 10 minutes of the box alarm.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 24, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Mutual Aid", boston, Chelsea, massachusetts, sizeup

Education Pay Off: Rookie’s First Day, Detailed To The Rescue, Catches a Job, Makes a Grab

Fall River rookie hits the fire service trifecta his first day at work.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 24, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Probationary Firefighter", massachusetts, rescue, Rookie, sizeup

“Broken Rules”
Backstep’s Dave LeBlanc Reports on Lowell Truck Officer’s Account of October Fire, Rescue Caught on Tape, Told to MFA Graduates

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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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 23, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Funding & Staffing, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", Lowell, massachusetts, rescue, safety, sizeup, staffing, strategy, tactics

Brooklyn Working: Ladder 102 Veteran Rescues Baby in Bedford-Stuyvesant Fire

28-year member assigned to Ladder Company 102 pulls 4-month old from fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 23, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, fdny, rescue

FDNY Working: High-Rise Blanket Deployed on Bronx Blaze

Videos from today’s four alarm fire shows high-rise blanket was placed into operation.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 21, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "fire behavior", "standard operating procedures", Bronx, fdny, high-rise, tactics

UL: Impact Of Fire Behavior, Ventilation

Underwriters Laboratory provides you with a wealth of new information on ventilation and fire behavior in the modern home.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 18, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Strategy Reconsidered, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "fire behavior", research, science, ventilation

Collyer Mansion: Los Angeles Fatal

Los Angeles’ USAR team gets called out to fatal house fire in order to stabilize structure.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 18, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Special Operations, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "collyer mansion", "fire behavior", "Los Angeles", "pack rat", "risk management", "Urban Search And Rescue", collapse, hoarder, hoarding, LAFD, sizeup, USAR

Andy Fredericks Training Days 2011

Date and registration are set continuing Andy’s legacy.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 18, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, News, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Andrew Fredericks", "Andy Fredericks Training Days", "engine companies" engine, alexandria, fdny, training

Ain’t That The Truth

Your moment of zen…

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 17, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Philosophy • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", Philosophy, rescue, safety

Case For The Asterisk – Revisited
Or, “How Dieing While Doing Something Illegal Can Still Get You LODD Honors”

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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Posted by Bill Carey on December 16, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, News • Tagged: "line of duty death", lodd

Firefighting According to Pirate Rules

Reporting of Vermont house fire rescue emphasizes “rule breaker” persona and, well, very little else.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 16, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, News, Rescues • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", firefighter, rescue, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, training

2011 Challenge
Lip Service or Getting What You Pay For?

Serious about reducing line of duty deaths? Serious about improving awareness of firefighter health? Let’s see just how serious.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 16, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Training & Development • Tagged: "Firehouse Expo", "line of duty death", "medical screening", exercise, FDIC, fitness, FRI, health, training

“Expect Fire” Baltimore, Md.

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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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 15, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Baltimore City", "engine companies" engine, "first due", communications, radio, safety, sizeup

P.G. Working:
Landover – no, Hyattsville…uh, Kentland? FedEx Field? Capitol Heights?…Ritchie?

P.G.’s new chief takes in a job that appears to have multiple addresses.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 15, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "fire behavior", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", Hyattsville, Kentland, safety, sizeup, sprinklers, Townhouse

Boston Tower 10 Working:
Tower Company Called to Construction Site Medic-Local

Members of Tower 10 respond to a heart attack victim at a Huntington Ave. site.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 14, 2010 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Rescues, Special Operations, Videos • Tagged: "tower ladder", "truck company", boston, boston apparatus, massachusetts, rescue

2010 Editorial Cartoon

Pretty much sums up the year.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 13, 2010 • Filed under: Commentary • Tagged: humor

A Primer On Flashover

Dave LeBlanc uses recent training and a LODD to keep flashover fresh in out minds.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 13, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "fire behavior", "fire load", flashover, safety, sizeup, training

Kansas City Flashover, Mayday:
Raw Video Interview Highlights Burnt Line, Backup Line and Area of Refuge

Kansas City firefighters working on a Saturday morning house fire experience a flashover and mayday call.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 11, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "close calls", "fire behavior", "Kansas City", "near miss", "rapid intervention", flashover, mayday, rescue, safety, search

Truck 1 Helps Stuff A Truck

P.G. volunteers give back to the locals who need it more.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 11, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, News, Videos • Tagged: "Prince George's County Fire EMS", "public education", "public information", "public relations", Hyattsville

Virginia Working: Portsmouth Bailout

Firefighters working on the primary searched were forced out windows.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 10, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "risk management", bailout, rescue, search, sizeup

May I Quote You?

You’ll never know what kind of caption lies behind that working fire photo.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 9, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Baltimore City", "fire behavior", "Firefighter Nation", "standard operating procedures", safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics

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