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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhetorical Lesson No.10
Profiling and Pets

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If VSP is to reduce risk of injury and death it should apply to searching for the Golden Doodle, right?

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 19, 2012 • Filed under: Uncategorized • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", "Victim Survivability Profiling", firefighter safety, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, public image, rescue, Rhetoric, rhetorical lessons, risk, risk analysis, safety, search, search and rescue, Stephen Marsar, 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

Vallejo Ventilation Video

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Opening up the roof in Vallejo.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 22, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training, Training & Development, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "truck company", firefighter safety, FirefighterNation, FireRescue Magazine, Jim McCormack, ladders, Randy Frassetto, roof ventilation, sizeup, truck company operations, Vallejo, ventilation, video

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

Harry M. Archer Medal
Courage and Valor…Understated, Revisited

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The citation is proof that people can survive even in the most unthinkable conditions.

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 9, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "The Front Seat", "truck company", Brooklyn, decision making process, fdny, firefighter safety, rescue, rescues, risk, safety, search and rescue, truck company operations

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

Clothes Make The Man.
Can Intent Justify the LODD?

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A brief commentary on the stupidest thing I have seen in the fire service.
So far.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 18, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", Commentary, firefighter safety, PPE, risk, risk analysis, safety

Why We Search: Camden
Pot of Gold at the End of the Row?

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Vacant row comes down after someone dies.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 14, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fireground audio", "public relations", abandoned, audio, Camden, firefighter safety, persons trapped, politics, public image, risk, safety, sizeup, vacant, videos

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Archives for firefighter-safety

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

Never Ask The Dead

Contradictions in Atlanta

Protecting Lives

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

Obligations

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Senseless in Indiana

Why We Search: Australian Squatters

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?

Rhetorical Lesson No.10
Profiling and Pets

“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?

Vallejo Ventilation Video

Ohio Close Calls
Blaming Radios and Remembering Past Tragedy

Harry M. Archer Medal
Courage and Valor…Understated, Revisited

Globe’s WASP
Physiological and Location Monitoring on the Fireground

Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire

Clothes Make The Man.
Can Intent Justify the LODD?

Why We Search: Camden
Pot of Gold at the End of the Row?

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