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Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

Providing a brief fire attack video to pick your brain on what you think transitional attack is.

Posted by Bill Carey on February 29, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Strategy Reconsidered, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", engine company operations, fireground operations, sizeup, strategy, Strategy Reconsidered, tactics, training, Transitional Attack, video

Berwick, PA Working:
West Ninth Street Fire Videos

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Nice series of video and audio of a Columbia County fire from start to finish.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 24, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Berwick Fire Department, communications, engine company operations, sizeup, sizeup report, truck company operations, videos

Squad Co.18 Working (Again):
10-77 with People in the Windows

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Manhattan fire with reports of people hanging out the windows.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 23, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", fdny, Manhattan, obvious rescues, rescue, Squad Co.18, video

Squad Co.18 Working:
Top Floor Fire on Lower East Side

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Fire showing from the fifth floor of 39 Eldridge Street and related material on truck company operations and ventilation.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 23, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Brotherhood Instructors", fdny, firefighter training, FireRescue Magazine, Manhattan, roof ventilation, Squad Co.18, training, truck company operations, ventilation, videos

New Color Scheme for PGFEMS Apparatus

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County-owned apparatus faces new look after years old design.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 21, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, News, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", apparatus, fire apparatus

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

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Arrival video from D.C. offers opportunity to train on sizeup report expectations.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Education, Fire Dispatch, Firefighting Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, communications, dcfd, radio, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video

Pushing the Envelope

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Despite modern challenges, many basics still keep us alive.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "risk management", Chief Concerns, firefighter safety, firefighter training, leadership, risk, Ron Ayotte, safety, training

“The Camera Modes to Getting the Money Shot”, Lloyd Mitchell Photography

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Four basic settings can make a big difference in your fireground photos.

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Posted by Lloyd Mitchell on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Uncategorized

“Busy in Brooklyn”
Lloyd Mitchell Photography

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Capturing some work in Flatbush.

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Posted by Lloyd Mitchell on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: Brooklyn, fdny, fire photographers, fire photography, Lloyd Mitchell, photography

The Lighting Store

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An enlightening look at the makeup of our fire service.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: "leadership management", Chief Concerns, Commentary, leadership, Ron Ayotte

John Salka and the Transitional Attack

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Popular instructor and FDNY battalion chief shares his thoughts on Facebook.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 15, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, Education, Engine Company, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Strategy Reconsidered • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Commentary, engine company operations, John Salka, strategy, tactics

Whitehall, PA Working:
Rescue on North Ruch Street

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Rescue at Pennsylvania house fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 14, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", primary search, rescue, search, search and rescue, video, Whitehall

Alameda County Responds
More About What You Think You Know

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More information on the popular helmet cam video.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 13, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Firefighter Mentality", "helmet camera", Alameda County, communication, decision making process, engine company operations, sizeup, training, VES, video

Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More

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Video answers critics about delay in getting water on the fire and shows that chasing kinks is everyone's job.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", Alameda County, command, communication, engine company, engine company operations, hoselines, incident command, initial command, obvious rescues, primary search, rescue company, rescues, search, search and rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, thermal imaging camera, VES, video

So Much for That “It’s Not Vacant Until We Search” Ideology

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Aggressive and Safety each took a hit in Toledo.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 6, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, communications, firefighter safety, legal issues, primary search, safety, search, search and rescue, sizeup, stress, Toledo

2012, The First 10

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34 days into the new year and the first 10 on-duty deaths.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 3, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "line of duty death", lodd, USFA

Spaghetti

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You are an engine company, not an Italian restaurant.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 3, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", behavior, engine company, engine company operations, hoseline stretches, hoselines, sizeup, video

Playing the Rescue Card

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Comments show that our beliefs are hypocritical once we find a body.
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Posted by Bill Carey on February 1, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, Rescues, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", behavior, Commentary, Hackensack, Lake Station, PPE, rescue, SCBA, videos

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Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

Berwick, PA Working:
West Ninth Street Fire Videos

Squad Co.18 Working (Again):
10-77 with People in the Windows

Squad Co.18 Working:
Top Floor Fire on Lower East Side

New Color Scheme for PGFEMS Apparatus

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

Pushing the Envelope

“The Camera Modes to Getting the Money Shot”, Lloyd Mitchell Photography

“Busy in Brooklyn”
Lloyd Mitchell Photography

The Lighting Store

John Salka and the Transitional Attack

Whitehall, PA Working:
Rescue on North Ruch Street

Alameda County Responds
More About What You Think You Know

Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More

So Much for That “It’s Not Vacant Until We Search” Ideology

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