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Posted by Bill Carey on May 22, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, occupants, occupants trapped, rescue, risk, videos

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

Indianapolis Working:
Helmet Cam Video, First-Due at Apartment Fire

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Quick grab after arrival on the scene

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 17, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fireground sizeup, helmet cam, Indianapolis, size-up, sizeup, video

Jacksonville Working:
Helmet Cam Video from First-Due Nozzleman

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Rippin' and runnin' with the lineman

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 15, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, helmet cam, Jacksonville, video

Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

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Sheriff’s deputies reported people inside the structure

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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

Nova Scotia Videos:
Opening Up The Abandoned Home

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Heavy duty work on a reportedly abandoned house fire

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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

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

Video Buffing in Buffalo:
Two-Alarms and a Grab on Eagle Street

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A grab made at Eagle Street two-alarm fire

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Posted by Lloyd Mitchell on May 2, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: Buffalo, fire photographers, fire photography, Lloyd Mitchell, video

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

Kentland Working: Fatal Fire in Glenarden

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Multiple victims found during the primary search

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 21, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", Glenarden, Kentland, Landover, Marc Bashoor, Mark Brady, occupants, occupants trapped, primary search, rescue, search, videos

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

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AFA becomes smoke showing

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 14, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communication, communications, David DeStefano, engine company, engine company operations, Expect Fire, fire alarm, Fire Engineering, fireground sizeup, FireRescue Magazine, Homer Robertson, Philadelphia, sizeup, training, video

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

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Footage from the first due engine boss

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 13, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fire attack, helmet cam, minimum staffing, PA, Sharon, sizeup, video

P.G. Working:
Helmet Cam Teaser of Riverdale Fire

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Friday night in the 4th Battalion

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 12, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", "PGFD", "Prince George's County Fire EMS", Bladensburg, engine company, helmet cam, Hyattsville, Mark Brady, Rivdedale, Riverdale Heights, video

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

Salisbury Working:
House Fire with Reported Children Trapped

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Engine 16, Tower 16 and Assistant Chief 1 go to work

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 2, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Salisbury, Fire In The Hole Photography, fire photographers, fire photography, Fruitland Volunteer Fire Department, Hebron Volunteer Fire Department, Mark Filippelli, occupants trapped, Parsonsburg Volunteer Fire Department, persons trapped, primary search, Salisbury Fire Department, Salisbury Station 1, Salisbury Station 16, Salisbury Station 2, search, search and rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, trapped

Life After Arlington Street
Worcester Firefighter Brian Carroll

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"What am I supposed to be doing?

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 21, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", collapse, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, MA LODD, massachusetts, persons trapped, search, search and rescue, trapped, worcester

Lloyd Mitchell:
Workers in Queens and Brooklyn

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Posted by Lloyd Mitchell on December 20, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "tower ladder", Brooklyn, fdny, fire photographers, fire photography, Lloyd Mitchell, Queens, Squad Co. 270, Squad Co.288, videos

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

Detroit Working (almost):
‘Batman 300′ on Patrol

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Citizen on patrol helps stop another vacant from lighting up

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 30, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "public information", "public relations", abandoned, arson, Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, vacant, video

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

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Indianapolis Working:
Helmet Cam Video, First-Due at Apartment Fire

Jacksonville Working:
Helmet Cam Video from First-Due Nozzleman

Why We Search:
Tulsa Occupied Abandoned Apartment Fire

Nova Scotia Videos:
Opening Up The Abandoned Home

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

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

Video Buffing in Buffalo:
Two-Alarms and a Grab on Eagle Street

Contradictions in Atlanta

Kentland Working: Fatal Fire in Glenarden

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

P.G. Working:
Helmet Cam Teaser of Riverdale Fire

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

RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire

Salisbury Working:
House Fire with Reported Children Trapped

Life After Arlington Street
Worcester Firefighter Brian Carroll

Lloyd Mitchell:
Workers in Queens and Brooklyn

POV Crash, Ejection Latest On-Duty Death

Detroit Working (almost):
‘Batman 300′ on Patrol

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)

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Three Alarms at Abandoned Motel

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