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Heavy duty work on a reportedly abandoned house fire

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

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

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"Quid est veritas?"

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on March 23, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Line of Duty, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "line of duty death", "The Front Seat", Colerain Township, Education, learning, Learning Behavior, Lessons Learned, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, Loudoun County, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, Prince William County, training

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

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

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

Senseless in Indiana

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How's that pledge thing working out for you?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 14, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, Line of Duty, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Everyone Goes Home", apparatus crash, Education, firefighter safety, Learning Behavior, lodd, lodd investigation, Rhetoric, rhetorical lessons, seat belts, USFA

The Other Side of the Call

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Thoughts from the other side of 911

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on October 25, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary • Tagged: Chief Concerns, Commentary, Ron Ayotte

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

A Little Bit of Gas, a Whole Lot of Stupid

1 comment

STATter911 story reveals ignorance in the 21st Century

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 22, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, News, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "close calls", "near miss", communication, Dave Statter, Education, firefighter injuries, firefighter safety, firefighter training, Learning Behavior, live burn training, STATter 911, 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

Salisbury Working:
10 Occupants Jump from House Fire Hours after City Council Rejects Staffing Grant

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Uncanny timing of inept city politics is highlighted by a working fire with people trapped.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 17, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "public information", "public relations", "Salisbury, Fruitland Fire Department, minimum staffing, politics, public image, Salisbury Fire Department, staffing

“Drive”

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You have to have passion.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on August 15, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: Chief Concerns, leadership, recruits, 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

Uppsala Working:
First Due Engine Footage of Swedish Apartment Fire

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Odd…it almost looks like a North American fireground.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 1, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires • Tagged: "Bill Carey", engine company, engine company operations, strategy, Sweden, tactics

“Good Enough”
Let’s Not Be Neanderthal about Roof Ventilation

16 comments

You're cutting a hole for ventilation, not slicing off half a pound of Pimento loaf.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 23, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, Education, Firefighting Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", "truck company", Education, ladder companies, roof ventilation, saws, training, truck company operations, ventilation, video

Shot in the Arm: Boston Engine 33

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The view from Boylston Street.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 18, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, Engine Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", boston, Boston Engine 33, Boston Fire Department, Boston Ladder 15, video

Philadelphia Rescue
Is Taking Off Your Facepiece For a Occupant a Bad Thing?

2 comments

Risk. Is it a matter of actual policy or personal interpretation?

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 6, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", firefighter safety, Philadelphia, primary search, rescue, risk, SCBA, search, search and rescue

Comment About a P.G. County Firehouse

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Could the same be said of your department?

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 29, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "leadership management", "PGFD", Hyattsville, leadership, public image, videos

Arizona Live Burn Mistakes
Third Degree Burns and a Burnt Hoseline. Lessons Anyone?

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Glaring inadequacies hurt us all when your training goes wrong.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 23, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Education, fire, Firefighter Safety & Health, Fires, Learning Behavior, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", behavior, Education, firefighter safety, firefighter training, hands-on training, Learning Behavior, live burn, live burn training, NFPA, NFPA 1403, training

Florida Editorial Cartoon Defames Firefighters

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Pensacola News Journal screws up big time.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 19, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "public relations", Commentary, public image

The Vicious Cycle

1 comment

Across the county, one department's problem is gradually becoming every department's problem.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on April 26, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary • Tagged: "leadership management", "public information", "public relations", Chief Concerns, leadership, public image, Ron Ayotte

We Won!

2 comments

No, not that but something much better.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 23, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Commentary, Education, fdny, science

Clothes Make The Man.
Can Intent Justify the LODD?

4 comments

A brief commentary on the stupidest thing I have seen in the fire service.
So far.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 18, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", Commentary, firefighter safety, PPE, risk, risk analysis, safety

Why We Search: Camden
Pot of Gold at the End of the Row?

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Vacant row comes down after someone dies.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 14, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fireground audio", "public relations", abandoned, audio, Camden, firefighter safety, persons trapped, politics, public image, risk, safety, sizeup, vacant, videos

Perceptions

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Often, the poor image our peers and the public have of us, comes from us.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on March 13, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: "chief officers", "leadership management", "public education", "public relations", Chief Concerns, command, image, leadership, public image, Ron Ayotte

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Opening Up The Abandoned Home

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

Never Ask The Dead

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

Protecting Lives

Senseless in Indiana

The Other Side of the Call

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

A Little Bit of Gas, a Whole Lot of Stupid

Suitcases

Salisbury Working:
10 Occupants Jump from House Fire Hours after City Council Rejects Staffing Grant

“Drive”

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

Uppsala Working:
First Due Engine Footage of Swedish Apartment Fire

“Good Enough”
Let’s Not Be Neanderthal about Roof Ventilation

Shot in the Arm: Boston Engine 33

Philadelphia Rescue
Is Taking Off Your Facepiece For a Occupant a Bad Thing?

Comment About a P.G. County Firehouse

Arizona Live Burn Mistakes
Third Degree Burns and a Burnt Hoseline. Lessons Anyone?

Florida Editorial Cartoon Defames Firefighters

The Vicious Cycle

We Won!

Clothes Make The Man.
Can Intent Justify the LODD?

Why We Search: Camden
Pot of Gold at the End of the Row?

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