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Brooklyn Working: First Due Video from Box 1794

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

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

Brooklyn Working: Supermarket Fire in East Flatbush

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Four alarms transmitted in the Borough of Fire

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Posted by Bill Carey on September 17, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", basement, basement fires, Brooklyn, East Flatbush, exterior operations, fdny, Rescue Co.2, Squad Co. 252, strategy, tactics, videos

Uppsala Working:
First Due Engine Footage of Swedish Apartment Fire

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Odd…it almost looks like a North American fireground.

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Posted by Bill Carey on August 1, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires • Tagged: "Bill Carey", engine company, engine company operations, strategy, Sweden, tactics

Denver Working: Apartment Fire, Transitional Attack?

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Denver apartment fire video and more consideration.

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Posted by Bill Carey on March 12, 2012 • Filed under: Education, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Strategy Reconsidered, Training, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "fire behavior", Denver, Education, engine company, engine company operations, fire attack, strategy, Strategy Reconsidered, tactics, Transitional Attack, 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

John Salka and the Transitional Attack

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Popular instructor and FDNY battalion chief shares his thoughts on Facebook.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 15, 2012 • Filed under: Commentary, Education, Engine Company, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Strategy Reconsidered • Tagged: "Bill Carey", Commentary, engine company operations, John Salka, strategy, tactics

“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”

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The creator behind "Impact This" training and a battalion chief looks at garden-style apartments.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 7, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Training, Training & Development, Videos • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "firefighter netcast", "The Front Seat", bailout, behavior, Education, firefighter safety, firefighter survivability, firefighter survival, garden apartments, mayday, Mike Walker, Ric Jorge, strategy, stress, tactics, training

April at Backstep Firefighter

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A monthly review of our popular postings.

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Posted by Bill Carey on May 4, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "Bill Carey", "Dave LeBlanc", "firefighter netcast", "risk management", "standard operating procedures", "Victim Survivability Profiling", abandoned, Camden, firefighter safety, Gabe Angemi, Lloyd Mitchell, staffing, strategy, tactics, training, vacant

The Dichotomy of Risk

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What works in Brooklyn won’t work in Deals Gap.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on April 11, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "fire behavior", "fire load", "policy and procedure", "risk management", "standard operating procedures", construction, dave, dcfd, firefighter safety, Gary, IN, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics

The Front Seat, Live on Firefighter Netcast

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A primer for Dave’s first show. Listen in and let your mind engage.

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Posted by Bill Carey on April 6, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Communication, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Dave LeBlanc", "fire reports", "Firefighter Mentality", "firefighter netcast", "line of duty death", NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, tactics, training

Thinking About Little Things

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Tunnel vision, prejudices, attitude, excessive talking – all can turn a fireground sour.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 15, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "standard operating procedures", communicating, communications, radio, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

NIOSH Wants To Hear From You

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You have until 29 April to put in your two cents on the firefighter fatality investigation program.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 8, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, In the Line of Duty, Learning Behavior, News, Technology & Communications, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "close calls", "line of duty death", "near miss", "standard operating procedures", Lessons Learned, NIOSH, NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Program, NIOSH reports, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, training

All Hands Working In Bed-Stuy

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NY Daily News video report of an all-hands fire in Brooklyn.

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Posted by Bill Carey on February 5, 2011 • Filed under: Engine Company, fire, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "fire behavior", "standard operating procedures", Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, fdny, sizeup, Squad Co.1, strategy, tactics, training, video

January at Backstep Firefighter

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A monthly review of our popular postings and the editorial cartoon.

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 31, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, abandoned, rescue, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics, training, unoccupied, vacant

Why We Search:
Chicago, Two Fires With Rescues

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Squatters rescued from one fire, tenants from a second.

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 2, 2011 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", abandoned, Chicago, homelessness, rescue, safety, sizeup, squatters, strategy, tactics, unoccupied, vacant, vagrants

Cape Cod Working:
Collapse During Harwich Cottage Fire

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Heavy fire reportedly showing upon arrival.

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Posted by Bill Carey on January 2, 2011 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News • Tagged: "Cape Cod", "fire load", "roll call", collapse, construction, evacuation, Hariwch, massachusetts, safety, sizeup, strategy, tactics

The 2011 Firefighter

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Trained and confident? Or tentative and fearful?

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 30, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, Education, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Learning Behavior, Philosophy, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Everyone Goes Home", "firefighter netcast", "standard operating procedures", communications, drill, firefighter, Philosophy, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, staffing, strategy, tactics, training

Why We Search: Philadelphia
One “Rat” Unable to “Scatter Away”

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Small fire in a vacant warehouse reveals a 70-year old squatter.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 28, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Line of Duty, News, Rescues, Strategy Reconsidered • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "public relations", "standard operating procedures", "Victim Survivability Profiling", abandoned, homelessness, Philadelphia, rescue, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, unoccupied, vacant, vagrants, warehouse

“Broken Rules”
Backstep’s Dave LeBlanc Reports on Lowell Truck Officer’s Account of October Fire, Rescue Caught on Tape, Told to MFA Graduates

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Recruits learn from rescues at working fire that fire service rules must be flexible if they are to have any impact on people trapped and training must be grounded in the basics.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 23, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Funding & Staffing, News, Rescues, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", Lowell, massachusetts, rescue, safety, sizeup, staffing, strategy, tactics

FDNY Working: High-Rise Blanket Deployed on Bronx Blaze

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Videos from today’s four alarm fire shows high-rise blanket was placed into operation.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 21, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "fire behavior", "standard operating procedures", Bronx, fdny, high-rise, tactics

May I Quote You?

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You’ll never know what kind of caption lies behind that working fire photo.

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Posted by Bill Carey on December 9, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Learning Behavior • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Baltimore City", "fire behavior", "Firefighter Nation", "standard operating procedures", safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics

Safety In The Abstract

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“We are taught safety, but it is a message of safety not grounded to tactics and techniques. It is safety in the abstract.” Dave LeBlanc

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on December 6, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Commentary, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Philosophy, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", firefighter, safety, sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics, training

“Shhhhh….”

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When SOPs, training and teamwork come together, the fire is almost a quiet, non-event.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 30, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, Engine Company, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "engine companies" engine, "fire behavior", "standard operating procedures", sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics

P.G. Working: Upper Marlboro

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Companies in the Southern Division go to work on restaurant fire.

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Posted by Bill Carey on November 30, 2010 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "Prince George's County Fire EMS", construction, sizeup, strategy, tactics

Sizeup

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Dave LeBlanc leads us to consider that the ever-changing understanding of sizeup involves more than the actual on scene picture.

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Posted by Dave LeBlanc on November 30, 2010 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Training & Development, training-fire-rescue-topics • Tagged: "aggressive firefighting", "standard operating procedures", sizeup, sogs, sops, strategy, tactics

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Archives for tactics

Brooklyn Working: First Due Video from Box 1794

Brooklyn Working: Supermarket Fire in East Flatbush

Uppsala Working:
First Due Engine Footage of Swedish Apartment Fire

Denver Working: Apartment Fire, Transitional Attack?

Reader Definitions of Transitional Attack

John Salka and the Transitional Attack

“Impact This” and Garden-Style Apartment Fires
Ric Jorge and Mike Walker on “The Front Seat”

April at Backstep Firefighter

The Dichotomy of Risk

The Front Seat, Live on Firefighter Netcast

Thinking About Little Things

NIOSH Wants To Hear From You

All Hands Working In Bed-Stuy

January at Backstep Firefighter

Why We Search:
Chicago, Two Fires With Rescues

Cape Cod Working:
Collapse During Harwich Cottage Fire

The 2011 Firefighter

Why We Search: Philadelphia
One “Rat” Unable to “Scatter Away”

“Broken Rules”
Backstep’s Dave LeBlanc Reports on Lowell Truck Officer’s Account of October Fire, Rescue Caught on Tape, Told to MFA Graduates

FDNY Working: High-Rise Blanket Deployed on Bronx Blaze

May I Quote You?

Safety In The Abstract

“Shhhhh….”

P.G. Working: Upper Marlboro

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