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Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

Sheriff’s deputies reported people inside the structure

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

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

There is No Profile for the White Elephant in the Smoke Filled Room

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Video bites, Facebook morsels continually shape our education

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on March 22, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "social media", "The Front Seat", Education, Facebook, firefighter training, learning, Learning Behavior, training

Protecting Lives

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Protecting people’s lives will involve risk for us as firefighters

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on February 8, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "risk management", "The Front Seat", "vent-enter-search", "Victim Survivability Profiling", fdny, firefighter safety, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, primary search, risk, risk analysis, safety, search, search and rescue, Stephen Marsar, VES, victims, VSP

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

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

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Not that well boarded up on Oahu

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 19, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, Detroit, firefighter safety, Hawaii, primary search, risk, safety, search, sizeup, squatters, vacant, vagrants, Why We Search

Warren Working:
First Due Truck to the Working House Fire

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One and one with fire showing

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 16, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, engine company operations, sizeup, sizeup report, video

Why We Search:
Cape Cod Broadcast Booth

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Is there any structure you wouldn't search?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 15, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, primary search, search, vacant, Why We Search

Why We Search:
Rescue at Colorado Springs Church Fire

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You expect every church to be occupied at 0400, don’t you?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "Bill Carey", church fire, Colorado Springs, Expect Fire, occupants, primary search, rescue, search, Why We Search

Defining Aggressive, Part I
Tasks and Identity

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Understanding the word within its culture

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 7, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Philosophy • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "Firefighter Mentality", Defining Aggressive, language, Philosophy, Rhetoric

Why We Search: Australian Squatters

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The occupied "vacant" building down under

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 6, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, firefighter safety, primary search, risk, search, search and rescue, vacant, Why We Search

Filling the Probie’s Pockets

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New twist on 'what's in your pockets?'

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 18, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Probationary Firefighter", Education, firefighter training, training

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

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Cold weather is coming

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 16, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, risk, search, vacant, Why We Search

Expect Fire:
Sunday in Prince George’s County

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Busy morning highlights need to be mentally prepared

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 15, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "Prince George's County Fire EMS", Beltsville, Bladensburg, Branchville, Brentwood, Bunker Hill, Expect Fire, Hyattsville, Kentland, Largo, Mark Brady, sizeup

The Basis Behind “Expect Fire”

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It is imperative that you bring your mind to the fight.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on October 12, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "Firefighter Mentality", "The Front Seat", cognitive thinking, decision making process, Expect Fire, firefighter training

Expect Fire:
Video of Los Angeles Grass Fire

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It's just a grass fire

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Expect Fire, LAFD, video

Lesson Not Learned
Texas, Tennessee and Emmitsburg
Why Does Johnny Not Read?

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Everyone went home so who the hell cares?

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 8, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Line of Duty, News, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Education, Emmitsburg, firefighter health, firefighter safety, firefighter training, health, ladder companies, Lessons Learned, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, NFFF, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, roof ventilation, SCBA, Tennessee, Texas, truck company operations, ventilation

“Good Job”

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Getting good at getting by can get you killed

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on September 21, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "The Front Seat", company training, Education, firefighter safety, firefighter training, mentoring, sops, training

“Expect Fire” Kentland
Smoke Showing at the AFA

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There’s a different smell coming from Eight O’Clock Coffee

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", Combat Ready, Expect Fire, Kentland, sizeup, sizeup report, Traditions Training, training

Suitcases

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It's like the farm system, where you're only as good as what you scout.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on August 31, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: "chief officers", "leadership management", Chief Concerns, leadership, Ron Ayotte

A Profiling Scenario
Do you know what your next move is?

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Scenario should worry you and lead you to look into what might happen.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 13, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Philosophy, Rescues, Strategy Reconsidered, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", "Victim Survivability Profiling", firefighter safety, primary search, risk, safety, search, search and rescue, victims, videos, VSP

San Francisco Working:
Audio, Video of Four-Alarm Fire on Ocean Avenue

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You can hear it got a little tense early on.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 9, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", "fireground audio", audio, backdraft, communicating, communication, communications, radio, San Francisco, sizeup, sizeup report, ventilation, videos

Idaho Falls Working:
Video of Basement Fire with Trapped Occupant

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Fire reportedly blocked the normal basement exit.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 6, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communication, obvious rescues, rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, video

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Archives for command-leadership

Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

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

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

Protecting Lives

2012 Maydays

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

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Warren Working:
First Due Truck to the Working House Fire

Why We Search:
Cape Cod Broadcast Booth

Why We Search:
Rescue at Colorado Springs Church Fire

Defining Aggressive, Part I
Tasks and Identity

Why We Search: Australian Squatters

Filling the Probie’s Pockets

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

Expect Fire:
Sunday in Prince George’s County

The Basis Behind “Expect Fire”

Expect Fire:
Video of Los Angeles Grass Fire

Lesson Not Learned
Texas, Tennessee and Emmitsburg
Why Does Johnny Not Read?

“Good Job”

“Expect Fire” Kentland
Smoke Showing at the AFA

Suitcases

A Profiling Scenario
Do you know what your next move is?

San Francisco Working:
Audio, Video of Four-Alarm Fire on Ocean Avenue

Idaho Falls Working:
Video of Basement Fire with Trapped Occupant

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