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A New Approach to After-Action Reports

Coupled with a new concept called Curbside Manner, the new approach can help firefighters manage potentially distressing calls

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 17, 2013 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", After Action Report, behavioral health, communicating, communication, counseling, counselors, critique, Curbside Manner, firefighter health, mental awareness, mental health, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, NFFF, stress

Why We Search: Columbus Firefighters Rescue Child in Vacant House Fire

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It’s not just drunks and drug addicts in these joints

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 7, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, Columbus, firefighter safety, OH, primary search, rescue, risk, risk analysis, safety, search and rescue, vacant, video

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

“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

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

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

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

POV Crash, Ejection Latest On-Duty Death

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Texas volunteer no longer on life support

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 4, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", lodd, POV Response

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

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

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

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

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

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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

“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

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

So What Are We Supposed to Do?

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You'll die if you go in. They will if you don't. Decisions, decisions.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on August 3, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Line of Duty, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "risk management", "The Front Seat", "Victim Survivability Profiling", lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, risk, risk analysis, sizeup, victims, VSP, worcester

“It’s All Good”

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The greater good exemplified.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 10, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "Bill Carey", firefighter safety, Philadelphia, primary search, risk, search, search and rescue

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

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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

“Getting it Done”
Absurdity on Alabama Fireground

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Video begs us to ask why isn't the message getting out and why is this thought to be okay in the first place?

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 28, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Education, fire, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", cancer, firefighter health, firefighter injuries, firefighter safety, health, IAFF, Learning Behavior, National Cancer Institute, NIOSH, PPE, safety

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

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Archives for firefighter-safety-health

A New Approach to After-Action Reports

Why We Search: Columbus Firefighters Rescue Child in Vacant House Fire

Change Taking Place in Charleston

“You Can’t Handle the Truth”

Contradictions in Atlanta

Protecting Lives

2012 Maydays

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

RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire

Obligations

POV Crash, Ejection Latest On-Duty Death

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Senseless in Indiana

Why We Search: Australian Squatters

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

The Basis Behind “Expect Fire”

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

A Little Bit of Gas, a Whole Lot of Stupid

“Good Job”

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

So What Are We Supposed to Do?

“It’s All Good”

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

“Getting it Done”
Absurdity on Alabama Fireground

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

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