This we week pose the question, can lawyers be a safety issue?
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Firefighting Today Weekly Roundtable – Extrication Tools and techniques
This week the panel will discuss extrication equipment, types, techniques, and maybe even discuss interesting or challenging situations.
Watch us here on the events Page, or live on YOUTUBE and post a comment to interact with the panel.
Firefighter Training Podcast Bonus Episode – The Prayer, Cross, and Robe
This powerful episode from Retired Police Officer George Brown is something that all first responders can relate to. In addition he has created a product to symbolize the discussion here.
This is worth the listen for all first responders.
60 Second Safety – Hoarding
This week on 60 second safety we talk about hoarding.
Firefighter Training Podcast – The 23rd Street Fire & Collapse – An Interview with Deputy Chief Vincent Dunn FDNY (Ret)
Chief Dunn shares his experiences as a responder of the first engine on the second alarm at this tragic fire that took the lives of 12 FDNY members.
Stay tuned until the end where Chief Dunn gives 11 tips for being a good firefighter. Great for new firefighters or firefighters at any level.
October 17, 1966 55-598
Killed in the line of duty
DC Thomas A Reilly, Division .3
BC Walter J Higgins, Battalion. 7
Lt John J Finley, Ladder 7
Lt Joseph Priore, Engine 18
Fr John G Berry, Ladder 7
Fr James V Galanaugh, Engine 18
Fr Rudolph F Kaminsky, Ladder 7
Fr Joseph Kelly, Engine 18
Fr Carl Lee Ladder, 7
Fr William F McCarron, Division 3
Fr Daniel L Rey, Engine 18
Fr Bernard A Tepper, Engine 18
Tactical Fire Problem – House Fire
This week we take a look at an older colonial style home, heavy fire floor 1.
1.) What factors might give you the age of the house?
2.) What does the age of the house indicate to you about potential fire spread?
3.) What is your first method of attack? What size line and where?
4.) How would you deploy your first 4 personnel on scene?
5.) What does the age and type of the structure and the geographic area indicate about possible water supply issues?
Watch the National Fallen Firefighter Memorial events live here
Candlelight Service Broadcast
Saturday, October 11, 2014 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. EDT
(Streaming Begins at 6:00 p.m.; Service Begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
Memorial Service Broadcast
Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:30 am – 12:00 p.m. EDT
(Streaming Begins at 9:30 a.m.; Service Begins at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
Firefighting Today Weekly Roundtable – 6 Things to think about
This week the panel conducts an exercise that you can recreate for your department very easily. We ask the following:
What three things should your department (or the fire service) START doing? What three things should your department (or the fire service) STOP doing?
Join us live here on youtube to leave a comment, or leave a comment here on the events page (even before the event) and we will discuss it on the panel.
Firefighter Training Podcast – Circumstances Dictate Procedure
This week we talk about the title quotation and how it applies to fire training, the NIST and UL studies, interacting with others and tactics and strategy on the fireground.
60 Second Safety – Excuses
This week we ask the question if excuses might be a safety issue?