Archives for communication

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions

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A few questions to challenge you and your crew

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 4, 2012 • Filed under: Communication, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", "truck company", communicating, communication, communications, decision making process, firefighter training, FL, Jacksonville, sizeup, sizeup report, training, truck company operations, video

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

California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County

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Why we believe this first-person view is important to the fire service.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 15, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Engine Company, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Technology & Communications, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "helmet camera", "public education", "public relations", communication, communications, company training, Contra Costa County Fire, Education, engine company, engine company operations, firefighter training, public image, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video, videos

Ohio Close Calls
Blaming Radios and Remembering Past Tragedy

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Calls show hindsight and misguided blame. Are we sure we're headed in the right direction when looking for "lessons learned"?

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 10, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Fires, Learning Behavior, News, Technology & Communications, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "close calls", "Firefighter Mentality", bailout, communication, communications, engine company, engine company operations, firefighter safety, radio, radio problems, roof collapse, technology

Globe’s WASP
Physiological and Location Monitoring on the Fireground

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More on Globe's WASP technology.

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Posted by Bill Carey on April 25, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Emergency Communications, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, News, Technology & Communications, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communications, FDIC, firefighter health, firefighter safety, firefighter tracking, FirefighterNation, FireRescue Magazine, Globe WASP, mayday, physiology, safety, technology

Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire

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Calm and collect a member calls for help as crews evacuate the fire floor.

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Posted by Bill Carey on April 12, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Engine Company, fire, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Bill Carey", "truck company", communicating, communications, engine company operations, firefighter safety, firefighter survival, mayday, PA, radio, Reading, truck company operations, video

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

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

Biggest Lesson from DCFD Logo Rebuttal: Tact

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“We are disinclined to acquiesce to your request.”

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 5, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, dcfd, District of Columbia, leadership, videos

This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004

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Increasing heat, crowded entrance, radio not used and victim 15 feet from the door.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 20, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", "forcible entry", "Probationary Firefighter", "rapid intervention", accountability, bailout, communication, communications, disorientation, firefighter safety, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, sizeup, Texas

“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”

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The creator behind "Impact This" training and a battalion chief looks at garden-style apartments.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 7, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "firefighter netcast", "The Front Seat", bailout, behavior, Education, firefighter safety, firefighter survivability, firefighter survival, garden apartments, mayday, Mike Walker, Ric Jorge, strategy, stress, tactics, training

Boston Mayday Training Sample

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Video highlights communications during fire attack and mayday.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 23, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Rescues, Technology & Communications, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "rapid intervention", boston, Boston Fire Department, communicating, communication, communications, Education, mayday, training, video

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Archives for communication

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

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

Never Ask The Dead

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

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

2012 Maydays

Warren Working:
First Due Truck to the Working House Fire

Defining Aggressive, Part I
Tasks and Identity

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

Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions

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

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

California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County

Ohio Close Calls
Blaming Radios and Remembering Past Tragedy

Globe’s WASP
Physiological and Location Monitoring on the Fireground

Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

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

Biggest Lesson from DCFD Logo Rebuttal: Tact

This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004

“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”

Boston Mayday Training Sample

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