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

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

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

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

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

Manhattan Scaffolding Rescue Highlights Agency Rivalry and Risk Management Decisions

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Scaffold rescue highlights problems in unified command system.

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Posted by Bill Carey on April 14, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Firefighter Safety & Health, News, Rescues, Special Operations, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", command, fdny, high angle rescue, high-rise, incident command, initial command, Manhattan, NYPD ESU, rescue, risk, risk analysis, rope rescue, safety, safety officer, special 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, 2012

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We are not saying you should be reckless, unsafe. We are saying you should be realistic.

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 26, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", abandoned, Education, primary search, rescue, risk, risk analysis, search, search and rescue, sizeup, squatters, vacant, vagrants, Why We Search

Collyer Mansion Rescue: Pasadena, MD
Rescue of Handicapped Occupant and Progressing Fire on Videos

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November rescue of a handicapped woman from rapidly progressing fire conditions.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 15, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "collyer mansion", "fire behavior", Earleigh Heights, firefighter injuries, firefighter safety, flameover, flashover, hoarder, hoarding, Maryland, Pasadena, primary search, rescue, risk, risk analysis, Rivera Beach, rollover, search and rescue, sizeup, trapped, videos

Rhetorical Lesson No.9:
Questions About Risk

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Who is at a greater risk of injury and death? Why?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 6, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Firefighter Safety & Health, Philosophy, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", firefighter safety, Rhetoric, rhetorical lessons, risk, risk analysis, safety

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Archives for risk-analysis

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

Protecting Lives

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

Obligations

So What Are We Supposed to Do?

Rhetorical Lesson No.10
Profiling and Pets

Manhattan Scaffolding Rescue Highlights Agency Rivalry and Risk Management Decisions

Clothes Make The Man.
Can Intent Justify the LODD?

Why We Search, 2012

Collyer Mansion Rescue: Pasadena, MD
Rescue of Handicapped Occupant and Progressing Fire on Videos

Rhetorical Lesson No.9:
Questions About Risk

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