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Detroit Decisions
Chief Makes a Rescue, Squad Does Transport

Whatever it takes…

Posted by Bill Carey on May 22, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, occupants, occupants trapped, rescue, risk, videos

Change Taking Place in Charleston

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“Our name is still the same. Everything else has changed.”

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 22, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Line of Duty, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", behavioral health, Charleston, counseling, counselors, culture, Dave Statter, firefighter health, FireRescue Magazine, health, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, NFFF, Ron Siarnicki, Sofa Super Store Fire, wellness

“They Call You For That?”

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Smoke showing upon the 10-84

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 18, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "public education", "public information", "public relations", Brooklyn, fdny, nuisance, video

Indianapolis Working:
Helmet Cam Video, First-Due at Apartment Fire

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Quick grab after arrival on the scene

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 17, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fireground sizeup, helmet cam, Indianapolis, size-up, sizeup, video

Jacksonville Working:
Helmet Cam Video from First-Due Nozzleman

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Rippin' and runnin' with the lineman

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 15, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, helmet cam, Jacksonville, video

Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

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Sheriff’s deputies reported people inside the structure

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 14, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, Tulsa, unoccupied, vacant, video, Why We Search

The Second 10*

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A look at the official on-duty deaths of 2013

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 11, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty • Tagged: "Bill Carey", 2013 On-Duty Deaths 10 Groups, fatalities, lodd, on-duty death, USFA

Nova Scotia Videos:
Opening Up The Abandoned Home

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Heavy duty work on a reportedly abandoned house fire

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 9, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, Nova Scotia, vacant, videos

The First 10

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A look at ten official on-duty deaths of 2013

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 9, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "line of duty death", 2013 On-Duty Deaths 10 Groups, lodd, statistics, United States Fire Administration, USFA

Why We Search: Dropping the Hammer in Lewiston and Dead in Vegas

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"Vacant" properties in Maine and kids playing inside them in Nevada

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 8, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, firefighter safety, Las Vegas, Lewiston, Maine, occupants, occupants trapped, safety, size-up, unoccupied, vacant, videos, Why We Search

P.G. Working:
Pre-Arrival and First-In Videos of Lanham Fire

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Basement fire in Company 48’s area with a report of a trapped person

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 3, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", engine, engine company, engine company operations, size-up, videos, West Lanham, West Lanham Volunteer Fire Department

Never Ask The Dead

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Teaching is of more importance than urging. – Martin Luther

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 23, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Line of Duty, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "line of duty death", firefighter safety, lodd, Rhetoric, rhetorical lessons, training

On Duty & Line of Duty:
What Is the Difference?

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A look at how the NFFF & USFA identify firefighter fatalities

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 17, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "line of duty death", FirefighterNation, FireRescue Magazine, funeral, lodd, memorial, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, NFFF, on-duty death, PSOB, Public Safety Officer Benefits, United States Fire Administration, USFA

Contradictions in Atlanta

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Rescue challenges those who cling to absolutes in fear and tradition.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 5, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Victim Survivability Profiling", abandoned, Atlanta, firefighter safety, primary search, rescue, safety, science, search, sizeup, squatters, tradition, vacant, victims, video

Kentland Working: Fatal Fire in Glenarden

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Multiple victims found during the primary search

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 21, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", Glenarden, Kentland, Landover, Marc Bashoor, Mark Brady, occupants, occupants trapped, primary search, rescue, search, videos

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

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AFA becomes smoke showing

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 14, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communication, communications, David DeStefano, engine company, engine company operations, Expect Fire, fire alarm, Fire Engineering, fireground sizeup, FireRescue Magazine, Homer Robertson, Philadelphia, sizeup, training, video

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

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Footage from the first due engine boss

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 13, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fire attack, helmet cam, minimum staffing, PA, Sharon, sizeup, video

The Firehouse Kitchen,
aka “In-House Training Academy”
Send Us Your Meal Time Pics

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More fires may have been fought here than in the entire city

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 12, 2013 • Filed under: Commentary, Communication, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, company training, conversations, discussions, firefighter training, firehouse kitchen, FireRescue Magazine, Stephen Marsar, teaching, training

Kinks. Even a Buff Knows to Chase Them

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Not much more basic than this

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 31, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Freeport NY", engine, engine company, engine company operations, hoseline stretches, hoselines, kinks, video

Video Discussion: Brooklyn Box 0212
All Hands at Coffee Shop Fire

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Size-up discussion for Williamsburg worker

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 20, 2013 • Filed under: Communication, Education, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Bill Carey", "truck company", 2 1/2 hoseline, apartment, apparatus, apparatus positioning, Brooklyn, communicating, communication, communications, engine company, engine company operations, fdny, fire escape, hoseline stretches, hoselines, ladder companies, NYC Fire Wire, reading smoke, sizeup, sizeup report, truck company operations, videos, Williamsburg

P.G. Working:
Helmet Cam Teaser of Riverdale Fire

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Friday night in the 4th Battalion

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 12, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", "PGFD", "Prince George's County Fire EMS", Bladensburg, engine company, helmet cam, Hyattsville, Mark Brady, Rivdedale, Riverdale Heights, video

2012 Maydays

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A year of communication we hate to hear, but train to say

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 12, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Emergency Communications, Firefighter Safety & Health, Rescues, Special Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fireground audio", "rapid intervention", audio, communicating, communication, communications, FAST, firefighter down, mayday, priority traffic, radio, rapid intervention team, RIC, RIT, urgent

Why We Search:
Jumper and Rescue at Chicago Abandoned Building Fire

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Two people injured after fire in South Side home

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 9, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", abandoned, Chicago, Chicago Fire Department, firefighter safety, jumper, primary search, rescue, risk, risk analysis, safety, vacant, Why We Search

RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire

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Roof, ceiling collapse after Caney Creek firefighters move in

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 8, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "rapid intervention", Billy Schmidt, Caney Creek VFD, ceiling collapse, collapse, evacuation, FAST, FDTN, Fire Department Training Network, FireRescue Magazine, Jim McCormack, Michael Dugan, NFPA, NFPA 1407, rapid intervention team, RIC, RIT, roof collapse, video

Shot In The Arm:
FDNY L.111, Rescue 2 Ride-Along ’92

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¾ boots, bunker pants, helmet tetrahedrons and white-over-red cabs

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 3, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "tower ladder", Brooklyn, buff, engine company, fdny, inspiration, ladder companies, Ladder Company 111, ladders, rescue, ride-along

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Detroit Decisions
Chief Makes a Rescue, Squad Does Transport

Change Taking Place in Charleston

“They Call You For That?”

Indianapolis Working:
Helmet Cam Video, First-Due at Apartment Fire

Jacksonville Working:
Helmet Cam Video from First-Due Nozzleman

Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

The Second 10*

Nova Scotia Videos:
Opening Up The Abandoned Home

The First 10

Why We Search: Dropping the Hammer in Lewiston and Dead in Vegas

P.G. Working:
Pre-Arrival and First-In Videos of Lanham Fire

Never Ask The Dead

On Duty & Line of Duty:
What Is the Difference?

Contradictions in Atlanta

Kentland Working: Fatal Fire in Glenarden

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

The Firehouse Kitchen,
aka “In-House Training Academy”
Send Us Your Meal Time Pics

Kinks. Even a Buff Knows to Chase Them

Video Discussion: Brooklyn Box 0212
All Hands at Coffee Shop Fire

P.G. Working:
Helmet Cam Teaser of Riverdale Fire

2012 Maydays

Why We Search:
Jumper and Rescue at Chicago Abandoned Building Fire

RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire

Shot In The Arm:
FDNY L.111, Rescue 2 Ride-Along ’92

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