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POV Crash, Ejection Latest On-Duty Death
Texas volunteer no longer on life support The 76th official on-duty death for 2012 involves a POV response crash in Texas. 20-year old Jackson Heights volunteer firefighter Jalen Smith was reportedly...
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Obligations
FDNY “As first responders to fires, public safety and medical emergencies, disasters and terrorist acts, FDNY protects the lives and property of New York City residents and visitors. “ Los Angeles...
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RIT Deployed at Texas House Fire
Roof, ceiling collapse after Caney Creek firefighters move in Firefighters in Montgomery County, Texas were called to the 1700 block of Pine View for the house on fire. According to Scott Engle and...
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Why We Search:Jumper and Rescue at Chicago Abandoned Building Fire
Two people injured after fire in South Side home Chicago firefighters responded to the 4800 block of South Indiana Avenue on the city’s South Side for the abandoned house fire. A woman had jumped to...
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2012 Maydays
A year of communication we hate to hear, but train to say As you listen ask yourself and your crew, what should a mayday from one of us sound like? Do we know what to say? Could we understand it if we...
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Protecting Lives
Protecting people’s lives will involve risk for us as firefighters “A female occupant, in her 40’s, was unable to escape due to the intense heat and thick smoke and was quickly located by...
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Contradictions in Atlanta
Rescue challenges those who cling to absolutes in fear and tradition. Atlanta firefighters rescued a man from a house fire on 4 March 2013. The facts reported should remind us all that many of the...
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“You Can’t Handle the Truth”
"Quid est veritas?" In this classic scene from ‘A Few Good Men’, Danny Kaffee is questioning Lt. Col Nathan Jessop about the use of a ‘Code Red’ that resulted in the death of a Marine. Colonel...
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Change Taking Place in Charleston
“Our name is still the same. Everything else has changed.” Reprint from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and FireRescue Magazine/FirefighterNation.com Note: I have been fortunate to...
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Why We Search: Columbus Firefighters Rescue Child in Vacant House Fire
It’s not just drunks and drug addicts in these joints An 8-year old Columbus boy is in critical condition after having been rescued from a vacant house fire. Columbus firefighters responded to the...
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A New Approach to After-Action Reports
Coupled with a new concept called Curbside Manner, the new approach can help firefighters manage potentially distressing calls A reprint from FireRescue Magazine/FirefighterNation.com. This article...
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The Third 10*
A look at the official on-duty deaths of 2013 *Reporting multiple West, Texas fatalities together Numbers in parentheses are total since reporting first group of 10. Source: United States Fire...
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Leave the Baggage Behind
New Trauma Screening Questionnaire helps firefighters feel less stigmatized than traditional counseling methods A reprint from FireRescue Magazine/FirefighterNation.com. This article appears in the...
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Do You Know The Monster Within?
A shared post courtesy of Ric Jorge and County Fire Tactics So you’re a hard charging, fire eating, truck ape, not scared of anything, as a matter of fact you fight what we fear. You tell your...
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Tactical Safety for Firefighters: Taking Sides
Shared post from Ray McCormack of Urban Firefighter Magazine There are only two sides to a fire building: the inside and the outside. There are those who want us to stay outside for a variety of...
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Updated Rhetorical Lesson No.11:Too Many People on The Roof
How do you determine someone else’s limit? Yeah, yeah I know, I know, they aren’t properly using their SCBA. That goes without saying; if you wear it then use it. The “brotherhood” isn’t going to be...
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The Greatest Risk, Taking No Risk At All
There is a debate that rages, on a daily basis; aggressive versus safe – interior versus exterior – searching versus waiting. Depending on where you work and what your experience is, you no doubt...
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Pushing The Envelope
Start off on the right foot – Don't shortcut the basics 'Pushing the envelope' is a phrase that was popularized in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book “The Right Stuff”, about the NASA’s space program. The...
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They Did Not Choose to Die
Never before have we had the information we do now FACE 2011-31 On December 23, 2011, a 42-year-old male career fire fighter died during fire-fighting operations on the 2nd floor of a three-story...
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Why We Search: United Kingdom Version
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service with rescues at abandoned house fire Firefighters of the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service rescued three squatters from a burning home on Bournemouth, England. Candles...
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