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More fires may have been fought here than in the entire city

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truck Tuesday:
Riding Assignments and Roof Questions

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If you are going to the roof, you have a plan, right?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 1, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "truck company", communicating, communication, communications, fdny, riding assignments, roof ventilation, truck company operations, Truck Tuesday, ventilation, video

“We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
Engine 42 Lieutenant Catches Boy and Provides Training Questions for Engine Companies

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Rescues at Roxbury apartment reminds us of the need for training under antagonistic conditions and the value of teamwork.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 18, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", boston, Boston Fire Department, boston firefighters, command, communicating, communications, company training, engine company, engine company operations, hoselines, initial command, ladders, obvious rescues, rescues, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video, videos

“Expect Fire” Contra Costa County
Two Rescues from Reported ‘Odor Investigation’ (Helmet Camera Footage)

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Crew from Station 6 rescue two from house fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 15, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "helmet camera", communicating, communication, communications, Contra Costa County Fire, Expect Fire, persons trapped, primary search, rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, video, videos

Lessons Learned:
Deadly Disorientation at Texas Plant Fire

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Eight contributing factors present before the fire actually started.

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 2, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "line of duty death", "rapid intervention", "risk management", command, communicating, communication, communications, firefighter safety, Lessons Learned, Maxim Egg Farm, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, preplan, preplanning, risk, safety, sizeup

The “Ins” of the Successful Fire Officer

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New contributor Ron Ayotte ups the staffing on Backstep Firefighter as a chief officer.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on September 1, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development • Tagged: "chief officers", "leadership management", character, communicating, fire officers, leadership, officer development, Ron Ayotte, training

A Loss Of Decorrum

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Dave LeBlanc on what is the biggest hurdle in fire service education and dialogue.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on August 10, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", Commentary, communicating, communication, communications, Education, training

Rhetorical Lesson No.7:
What’s Your Point?

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If your defense boils down to this, then what are your really trying to say? (more…)

Posted by Bill Carey on July 28, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Strategy Reconsidered, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, debate, Rhetoric, rhetorical lessons

Remain Calm, All Is Well

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Dave LeBlanc on how the smart firefighter keeps his head while everyone else is running around losing theirs.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on June 25, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "Firefighter Mentality", Brooklyn, communicating, communications, fdny, radio, sizeup

Can You Hear Me Now? Staying Alive: Prince George’s County Fire, EMS Department Unveils Mobile Mayday Simulator

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New Technical Services Battalion uses department box truck to create a complex mayday classroom.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 1, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Rescues, Technology & Communications, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Vehicle Operations & Apparatus, Videos • Tagged: "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "rapid intervention", communicating, communications, Education, mayday, training

Thinking About Little Things

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Tunnel vision, prejudices, attitude, excessive talking – all can turn a fireground sour.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 15, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "standard operating procedures", communicating, communications, radio, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

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Archives for communicating

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

Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions

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

Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

So Much for That “It’s Not Vacant Until We Search” Ideology

Biggest Lesson from DCFD Logo Rebuttal: Tact

Boston Mayday Training Sample

Truck Tuesday:
Riding Assignments and Roof Questions

“We’re just trying to do the best we can.”
Engine 42 Lieutenant Catches Boy and Provides Training Questions for Engine Companies

“Expect Fire” Contra Costa County
Two Rescues from Reported ‘Odor Investigation’ (Helmet Camera Footage)

Lessons Learned:
Deadly Disorientation at Texas Plant Fire

The “Ins” of the Successful Fire Officer

A Loss Of Decorrum

Rhetorical Lesson No.7:
What’s Your Point?

Remain Calm, All Is Well

Can You Hear Me Now? Staying Alive: Prince George’s County Fire, EMS Department Unveils Mobile Mayday Simulator

Thinking About Little Things

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