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Quick grab after arrival on the scene

Posted by Bill Carey on May 17, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fireground sizeup, helmet cam, Indianapolis, size-up, sizeup, video

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

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

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AFA becomes smoke showing

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 14, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communication, communications, David DeStefano, engine company, engine company operations, Expect Fire, fire alarm, Fire Engineering, fireground sizeup, FireRescue Magazine, Homer Robertson, Philadelphia, sizeup, training, video

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

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Footage from the first due engine boss

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 13, 2013 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Bill Carey", "helmet camera", engine, engine company, engine company operations, fire attack, helmet cam, minimum staffing, PA, Sharon, sizeup, video

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

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

Lowell Working:
Videos of Companies Pushing in at Four-Alarm Fire

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Store with apartments above burns in Massachusetts city

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 28, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Lowell, massachusetts, sizeup, videos

P.G. Working:
Three Alarms at Co.28 Apartment Fire (Videos, Images)

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Precautionary third alarm as fire takes two floors of garden apartment

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 27, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "apartment fire", "Berwyn Heights", "Bill Carey", "garden-style apartment", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "truck company", Billy McNeel, fire photographers, fire photography, garden apartments, Hyattsville, Kentland, Mark Brady, sizeup, truck company operations, West Lanham

Harwich Working:
Three Alarms at Abandoned Motel

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Stone Horse Motel well off when firefighters arrived

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 26, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", 2 1/2 hoseline, abandoned, defensive operations, exterior operations, Harwich, Hotel Fire, Motel, sizeup, vacant

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

Buffalo:
Response, Initial Work Videos

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On the scene with Ladder 14

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 16, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "truck company", Buffalo, engine company, ladder companies, sizeup, sizeup report, videos

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

Expect Fire:
Sunday in Prince George’s County

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Busy morning highlights need to be mentally prepared

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 15, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "PGFD", "PGFEMS", "Prince George's County Fire EMS", Beltsville, Bladensburg, Branchville, Brentwood, Bunker Hill, Expect Fire, Hyattsville, Kentland, Largo, Mark Brady, sizeup

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

Helmet Cam Perspective: Working Fire, Occupied Dwelling

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Working fire with reports of occupants inside

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Posted by Bill Carey on October 3, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Technology & Communications, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "helmet camera", Bill Care, FDCam.com, sizeup, video

Brooklyn Working: First Due Video from Box 1794

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Pride of Sheffield Avenue is first in on a second alarm fire

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 24, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Brooklyn, decision making process, fdny, sizeup, sizeup report, strategy, tactics, video

“Expect Fire” Kentland
Smoke Showing at the AFA

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There’s a different smell coming from Eight O’Clock Coffee

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 10, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "PGFD", Combat Ready, Expect Fire, Kentland, sizeup, sizeup report, Traditions Training, training

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

Idaho Falls Working:
Video of Basement Fire with Trapped Occupant

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Fire reportedly blocked the normal basement exit.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 6, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communication, obvious rescues, rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, video

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

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

Seaside Working:
California Helmet Cam View of Store Fire

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Response and arrival at this small taxpayer job.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 18, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Technology & Communications, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "helmet camera", "truck company", classroom training, communication, company training, drill, engine company, engine company operations, response, sizeup, thermal imaging camera, training, truck company operations, videos

California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County

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Why we believe this first-person view is important to the fire service.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 15, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Engine Company, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Technology & Communications, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "helmet camera", "public education", "public relations", communication, communications, company training, Contra Costa County Fire, Education, engine company, engine company operations, firefighter training, public image, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video, videos

Blanket Statements

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A new post from "Captain" Dave LeBlanc.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on June 6, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations • Tagged: "Dave LeBlanc", "The Front Seat", command, decision making process, incident command, initial command, leadership, risk, safety, sizeup

FDNY Medal Day Preview:
WTC and Burn Foundation Medal Winners

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A FDNY Medal Day glimpse of two companies at a significant fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on June 5, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Brooklyn, fdny, Medal Day, obvious rescues, rescues, risk, sizeup, videos

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Archives for sizeup

Indianapolis Working:
Helmet Cam Video, First-Due at Apartment Fire

Contradictions in Atlanta

Expect Fire: Philadelphia

Sharon, PA Working
Helmet Cam Video from Engine Officer

Video Discussion: Brooklyn Box 0212
All Hands at Coffee Shop Fire

Salisbury Working:
House Fire with Reported Children Trapped

Lowell Working:
Videos of Companies Pushing in at Four-Alarm Fire

P.G. Working:
Three Alarms at Co.28 Apartment Fire (Videos, Images)

Harwich Working:
Three Alarms at Abandoned Motel

Why We Search:
Abandoned House, Hospital and Projects

Buffalo:
Response, Initial Work Videos

Warren Working:
First Due Truck to the Working House Fire

Expect Fire:
Sunday in Prince George’s County

Helmet Cam Perspective:
Training Questions

Helmet Cam Perspective: Working Fire, Occupied Dwelling

Brooklyn Working: First Due Video from Box 1794

“Expect Fire” Kentland
Smoke Showing at the AFA

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

Idaho Falls Working:
Video of Basement Fire with Trapped Occupant

So What Are We Supposed to Do?

Vallejo Ventilation Video

Seaside Working:
California Helmet Cam View of Store Fire

California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County

Blanket Statements

FDNY Medal Day Preview:
WTC and Burn Foundation Medal Winners

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