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BECOME SAFE
How do you think these elements fit into the Big Picture during combat fire suppression operations at working structure fire? What’s your experience gauge telling you as it related to these elements?...
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Ten Minutes in the Street Scenarios on FFN
The bells come in right after your last bite of dinner for a reported fire in multiple-occupancy residential. The building is located on a steep sloping road that you know all too well. The...
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Vacant or Unoccupied: Tactical Risk and Safety
We seem to do a lot of things at times out of common practice and repetition, you know; “We’ve always done it that way….” syndrome. There’s a resonating theme that is making its way around the fire...
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Reloaded
“It’s no longer just brute force and sheer physical determination that define structural fire suppression operations. Aggressive firefighting must be redefined and aligned to the built environment and...
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It’s more than just Size-Up; Situational Awareness and Dynamic Risk Assessment
Dynamic Risk Assessment is commonly used to describe a process of risk assessment being carried out in a changing or evolving environment, where what is being assessed is developing as the process...
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Seeing Clearly: Cleaning your “Glasses”
Commanders and Company Offices need to gain new insights and knowledge related to the modern building occupancy and to modify and adjust operating profiles in order to safe guard companies, personnel...
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360 DEGREES OF SEPARATION
The fireground often has competing or conflicting incident priorities, demands or distractions before a complete appreciation of all mission critical or essentialinformation and data has been obtained....
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Learning from the Past: Five Alarm Church Fire and Collapse leads to two Line...
Six years ago on March 13, 2004, two career firefighters with the City of Pittsburg (PA) Fire Bureau were fatally injured during a structural collapse of a bell tower at the Ebenezer Baptist Church...
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