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

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

Buffing in Buffalo
Lloyd Mitchell with Two Houses Working

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Two houses off upon arrival at Goodyear Avenue.

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Posted by Lloyd Mitchell on May 14, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: Buffalo, fire photographers, fire photography, Lloyd Mitchell, sizeup, video, videos

Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks

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Kensington house fire highlights basement fire and some other things.

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 3, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Strategy Reconsidered, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", basement, basement fires, engine company, engine company operations, fireground operations, Kensington, ladders, Montgomery County, sizeup, truck company operations, ventilation, video

Snohomish County Working:
Rescue Off Balcony

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First due engine reportedly has a rescue awaiting them.

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Posted by Bill Carey on April 19, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Truck Company, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "truck company", communications, engine company, engine company operations, ladders, obvious rescues, rescue, sizeup, sizeup report, truck company operations, video

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

The Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”

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The area of refuge only applies to truckies forcing apartment doors, correct?

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 7, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", culture, engine company, engine company operations, fire attack, fire conditions, hoselines, nozzle team, risk, sizeup, video

Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

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Providing a brief fire attack video to pick your brain on what you think transitional attack is.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 29, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Strategy Reconsidered, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", engine company operations, fireground operations, sizeup, strategy, Strategy Reconsidered, tactics, training, Transitional Attack, video

Berwick, PA Working:
West Ninth Street Fire Videos

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Nice series of video and audio of a Columbia County fire from start to finish.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 24, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Berwick Fire Department, communications, engine company operations, sizeup, sizeup report, truck company operations, videos

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

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Arrival video from D.C. offers opportunity to train on sizeup report expectations.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 18, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Dispatch & Communications, Education, Fire Dispatch, Firefighting Operations, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", communicating, communication, communications, dcfd, radio, sizeup, sizeup report, training, video

Alameda County Responds
More About What You Think You Know

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More information on the popular helmet cam video.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 13, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Firefighter Mentality", "helmet camera", Alameda County, communication, decision making process, engine company operations, sizeup, training, VES, video

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

Spaghetti

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You are an engine company, not an Italian restaurant.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 3, 2012 • Filed under: Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", behavior, engine company, engine company operations, hoseline stretches, hoselines, sizeup, video

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

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Video Highlights Quick Work by Minimum Staffed Crews

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Submitter of past Backstep article is seen hustling the hoselines.

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 7, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", minimum staffing, Pine Bluff Arkansas, sizeup, staffing, Two and Three-Man Crews, vacant, video

This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004

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Increasing heat, crowded entrance, radio not used and victim 15 feet from the door.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 20, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, In the Line of Duty, Line of Duty, Rescues, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", "forcible entry", "Probationary Firefighter", "rapid intervention", accountability, bailout, communication, communications, disorientation, firefighter safety, lodd, lodd investigation, lodd report, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, sizeup, Texas

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

Stockton, California Working:
A Little ‘Shot in The Arm’ for the Fire Service

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First-in footage at Stockton working fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 9, 2011 • Filed under: Commentary, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", "first due", "forcible entry", "truck company", "vent-enter-search", CA, engine company, engine company operations, ladder companies, sizeup, Stockton, truck company operations

“Expect Fire”
Salisbury, Md. Crew Catches Job On Way To Quarters

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On their way back from one call they notice smoke in the area.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 16, 2011 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Expect Fire, fire photographers, fire photography, FITHP, sizeup, video

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

D.C. Working: Southeast House Fire.
Notice the Stretches.

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Video from the 3200 block of Pope Street, SE.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 3, 2011 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", basement, dcfd, engine, engine company, engine company operations, hoseline stretches, hoselines, sizeup, video

“Expect Fire” Palm Beach County
0400 hrs. Wires Down Call Becomes Working House Fire with Rescues

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Palm Beach County crew of three adapts quickly and rescues family of four.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 2, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: engine company, Expect Fire, obvious rescues, Palm Beach County, primary search, rescue, rescues, search and rescue, situational awareness, sizeup, sizeup report

Real World Staffing
Required Reading for The Front Seat Program on Firefighter Netcast

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Here's a sample of what we'll be discussing.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on October 27, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Education, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "firefighter netcast", "The Front Seat", "truck company", communications, engine company, firefighter safety, fireground operations, Gastonia, minimum staffing, Pine Bluff Arkansas, rules, sizeup, staffing, Two and Three-Man Crews

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Archives for sizeup

California Helmet Cams:
Hayward and Contra Costa County

Blanket Statements

FDNY Medal Day Preview:
WTC and Burn Foundation Medal Winners

Buffing in Buffalo
Lloyd Mitchell with Two Houses Working

Kensington Working:
Basement Fires, Ladders and Kinks

Snohomish County Working:
Rescue Off Balcony

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

The Area of Refuge and “Experience Makeup”

Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

Berwick, PA Working:
West Ninth Street Fire Videos

Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video

Alameda County Responds
More About What You Think You Know

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

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

Spaghetti

Why We Search, 2012

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Video Highlights Quick Work by Minimum Staffed Crews

This Day in LODD, Structure Fire History
Fire Keeps RIT from Reaching Probie, Texas 2004

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

Stockton, California Working:
A Little ‘Shot in The Arm’ for the Fire Service

“Expect Fire”
Salisbury, Md. Crew Catches Job On Way To Quarters

The Path You Chose

D.C. Working: Southeast House Fire.
Notice the Stretches.

“Expect Fire” Palm Beach County
0400 hrs. Wires Down Call Becomes Working House Fire with Rescues

Real World Staffing
Required Reading for The Front Seat Program on Firefighter Netcast

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