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Contradictions in Atlanta

Rescue challenges those who cling to absolutes in fear and tradition.

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

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

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

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

Collyer Mansion: Washington, D.C.

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Fire in Northwest reveals hoarding conditions

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 25, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "collyer mansion", "pack rat", "Washington, D.C.", dcfd, hoarder, hoarding, primary search, rescue, search, videos

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

Why We Search:
Cape Cod Broadcast Booth

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Is there any structure you wouldn't search?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 15, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, primary search, search, vacant, Why We Search

Why We Search:
Rescue at Colorado Springs Church Fire

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You expect every church to be occupied at 0400, don’t you?

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues • Tagged: "Bill Carey", church fire, Colorado Springs, Expect Fire, occupants, primary search, rescue, search, Why We Search

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

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

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Cold weather is coming

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 16, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", abandoned, risk, search, vacant, Why We Search

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

Whitehall, PA Working:
Rescue on North Ruch Street

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Rescue at Pennsylvania house fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 14, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", primary search, rescue, search, search and rescue, video, Whitehall

Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More

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Video answers critics about delay in getting water on the fire and shows that chasing kinks is everyone's job.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", Alameda County, command, communication, engine company, engine company operations, hoselines, incident command, initial command, obvious rescues, primary search, rescue company, rescues, search, search and rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, thermal imaging camera, VES, 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

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

The Pressurized Water Extinguisher,
aka “The Can”

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New contributor reminds you that "the can" is not a door chock.

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Posted by Joe Fitzgerald on January 12, 2012 • Filed under: Firefighting Operations, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company • Tagged: "truck company", firefighter training, Joe Fitzgerald, Lloyd Mitchell, pressurized water extinguisher, primary search, search, training, truck company operations

“Absolutely Not!” Rebuffing Refusing to Search for Occupants in Collyer Mansion Conditions
Shared Post from CMD-FD

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Gabe Angemi allows us to share why hoarding shouldn't be an excuse to not act.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 12, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Rescues, Training • Tagged: "collyer mansion", Camden, firefighter safety, Gabe Angemi, hoarding, rescue, risk, safety, search

The Path You Chose

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Are you certain this is the job for you?

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on November 4, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Dave LeBlanc", "Everyone Goes Home", "Firefighter Mentality", "vent-enter-search", firefighter safety, mental awareness, physical fitness, primary search, safety, search, search and rescue, sizeup

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 Entry No.2:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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This two-man ladder company is the standard for working structure fires in their city.

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 12, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "truck company", "vent-enter-search", Education, firefighter safety, ladder companies, minimum staffing, Pine Bluff Arkansas, research, safety, search, search and rescue, sizeup, truck company operations, Two and Three-Man Crews, VES

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Archives for search

Contradictions in Atlanta

Kentland Working: Fatal Fire in Glenarden

Protecting Lives

Salisbury Working:
House Fire with Reported Children Trapped

Life After Arlington Street
Worcester Firefighter Brian Carroll

Why We Search:
Upper Marlboro, Maryland

Collyer Mansion: Washington, D.C.

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Why We Search:
Cape Cod Broadcast Booth

Why We Search:
Rescue at Colorado Springs Church Fire

Why We Search: Australian Squatters

Why We Search:
Boarded Up In Colorado Springs

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?

Whitehall, PA Working:
Rescue on North Ruch Street

Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More

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

Why We Search, 2012

The Pressurized Water Extinguisher,
aka “The Can”

“Absolutely Not!” Rebuffing Refusing to Search for Occupants in Collyer Mansion Conditions
Shared Post from CMD-FD

The Path You Chose

A Tale of Two Fires

Two and Three-Man Crews Entry No.2:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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