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Protecting Lives

Protecting people’s lives will involve risk for us as firefighters

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

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

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

Pushing the Envelope

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Despite modern challenges, many basics still keep us alive.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "risk management", Chief Concerns, firefighter safety, firefighter training, leadership, risk, Ron Ayotte, safety, training

Why Everyone Goes Home doesn’t always mean “Everyone Goes Home.”

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The cowboy in us asks 'If great responsibility is founded on personal responsibility, then what place does personal experience hold?'

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on January 28, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "Everyone Goes Home", "line of duty death", "risk management", "The Front Seat", cardiovascular fitness, classroom training, company training, Education, experience, firefighter fitness, firefighter safety, firefighter training, fitness, hands-on training, leadership, physical fitness, physical training, responsibility, risk, safety, training

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

Between The Extremes

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There will always be fires.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on November 16, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "line of duty death", "risk management", "The Front Seat", firefighter safety, Ken Farmer, lodd, risk, safety, USFA

“Those Fires”?
Maybe Andy Fredericks was Right.

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VCOS speaker puts you in service faster than a residential sprinkler.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 13, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, News, Philosophy, Strategy Reconsidered, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", andy fredericks, firefighter safety, IAFC, risk, safety, VCOS

The No Fail Mission

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The risk is great, the cost high, and the task is your responsibility.

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Posted by Ron Ayotte on November 11, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Videos • Tagged: "risk management", Chief Concerns, risk, Ron Ayotte

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

Why We Search: Maryland Father Tries to Save Son in Abandoned House Fire

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Abandoned home in Harford County becomes the scene of two rescues.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 5, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "risk management", abandoned, firefighter safety, rescues, risk, safety, unoccupied, vacant, Why We Search

Mark My Words

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Is 'Legal Counsel' going to be the newest riding position?

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 27, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Bill Carey", "chief officers", "public education", "public information", "public relations", "risk management", "Victim Survivability Profiling", culture, Education, firefighter safety, legal issues, primary search, public image, rescue, risk, safety, safety officer, search and rescue, sogs, sops, victims, VSP

A Tale of Two Fires

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At what point do we add so much to our “incident evaluation” that we handcuff ourselves into inaction?

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on October 22, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "line of duty death", "risk management", "vent-enter-search", "Victim Survivability Profiling", decision making process, fdny, firefighter safety, Homewood, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, primary search, risk, safety, search, search and rescue, sizeup, Stephen Marsar, Vallejo, victims, VSP

Two and Three-Man Crews – We Want You!

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Upcoming posts are about you, so let's see if you're ready!

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 6, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "firefighter netcast", "risk management", "The Front Seat", communication, firefighter safety, minimum staffing, risk, safety, sizeup, staffing

“Expect Fire” Early Footage of Chicago Multiple Alarm on Weekday Afternoon

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Only a block away, Engine 22 has an afternoon full of fire and first line choices.

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 20, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "first due", "risk management", 2 1/2 hoseline, Chicago, Chicago Fire Department, communications, engine company, engine company operations, Expect Fire, firefighter safety, FireRescue Magazine, hoselines, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video

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

A VSP-ish Result in Pennsylvania

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Code enforcement draws the line at this Collyer Mansion fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 28, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Strategy Reconsidered, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "collyer mansion", "risk management", "Victim Survivability Profiling", code enforcement, firefighter safety, hoarding, leadership, risk, safety

Detroit’s “Paradigm Shift” Jams Gears

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What was that new policy about vacant building fires?

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 27, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Strategy Reconsidered, Videos • Tagged: "risk management", "truck company", abandoned, Detroit Fire Department, firefighter safety, leadership, risk, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, vacant, ventilation

Life Safety Initiative No.12 and the DCFD

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Maybe it is because this doesn’t involve firefighting that others are so quiet about it.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 16, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Commentary, EMS Health & Safety, Firefighter Safety & Health, News • Tagged: "public relations", "risk management", dcfd, District of Columbia, firefighter safety, leadership, politics, risk, safety, violence

Texas 2010 LODD State Investigation
Lessons Never Learned

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Bill Carey draws your attention to the Araguz LODD report and the biggest finding not mentioned.

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Posted by Bill Carey on July 10, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "fire behavior", "fire load", "risk management", building construction, command, communication, Lessons Learned, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, Maxim Egg Farm, preplanning, risk, sizeup

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Archives for risk-management

Protecting Lives

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

Obligations

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

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?

Pushing the Envelope

Why Everyone Goes Home doesn’t always mean “Everyone Goes Home.”

Why We Search, 2012

Between The Extremes

“Those Fires”?
Maybe Andy Fredericks was Right.

The No Fail Mission

Rhetorical Lesson No.9:
Questions About Risk

Why We Search: Maryland Father Tries to Save Son in Abandoned House Fire

Mark My Words

A Tale of Two Fires

Two and Three-Man Crews – We Want You!

“Expect Fire” Early Footage of Chicago Multiple Alarm on Weekday Afternoon

Lessons Learned:
Deadly Disorientation at Texas Plant Fire

A VSP-ish Result in Pennsylvania

Detroit’s “Paradigm Shift” Jams Gears

Life Safety Initiative No.12 and the DCFD

Texas 2010 LODD State Investigation
Lessons Never Learned

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