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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Obligations

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on January 6, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "public education", "public information", "public relations", "risk management", "The Front Seat", firefighter safety, public image, risk, risk analysis, safety

Lowell Working:
Videos of Companies Pushing in at Four-Alarm Fire

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Store with apartments above burns in Massachusetts city

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 28, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Lowell, massachusetts, sizeup, videos

Why We Search:
Upper Marlboro, Maryland

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Fatal fire in Company 20's first due

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 28, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", abandoned, search, Upper Marlboro, vacant, Why We Search

P.G. Working:
Three Alarms at Co.28 Apartment Fire (Videos, Images)

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Precautionary third alarm as fire takes two floors of garden apartment

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 27, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Berwyn Heights", "Bill Carey", "garden-style apartment", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "truck company", Billy McNeel, fire photographers, fire photography, garden apartments, Hyattsville, Kentland, Mark Brady, sizeup, truck company operations, West Lanham

Harwich Working:
Three Alarms at Abandoned Motel

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Stone Horse Motel well off when firefighters arrived

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 26, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", 2 1/2 hoseline, abandoned, defensive operations, exterior operations, Harwich, Hotel Fire, Motel, sizeup, vacant

Collyer Mansion: Washington, D.C.

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Fire in Northwest reveals hoarding conditions

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 25, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "collyer mansion", "pack rat", "Washington, D.C.", dcfd, hoarder, hoarding, primary search, rescue, search, videos

Expect Fire: Denver
Smoke Investigation Ends with Rescue

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Smoke in the area…

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 20, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Combat Ready, Denver, Expect Fire, primary search, rescue

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

Buffalo:
Response, Initial Work Videos

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On the scene with Ladder 14

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 16, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "truck company", Buffalo, engine company, ladder companies, sizeup, sizeup report, videos

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

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

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

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

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Archives for fire-rescue-topics

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

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

Protecting Lives

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

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

RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire

Obligations

Lowell Working:
Videos of Companies Pushing in at Four-Alarm Fire

Why We Search:
Upper Marlboro, Maryland

P.G. Working:
Three Alarms at Co.28 Apartment Fire (Videos, Images)

Harwich Working:
Three Alarms at Abandoned Motel

Collyer Mansion: Washington, D.C.

Expect Fire: Denver
Smoke Investigation Ends with Rescue

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Buffalo:
Response, Initial Work Videos

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

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

Expect Fire:
Sunday in Prince George’s County

Expect Fire:
Video of Los Angeles Grass Fire

Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions

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