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I talk a lot about the 3 hours The 3 Hours PODCAST 1 Hour in the Gym 1 Hour in the Library 1 Hour of Hands on Training EVERY DAY However that can be difficult especially off duty! However with ...
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Engine Company Search: Ranch House
Engine Company Search: Ranch House Life Safety is the fire services number one priority, typically accomplished by searching for victims of fire inside fire buildings. This is a high risk, high man power, and high intensity tactic that must be ...
Read More »Lessons Learned From a Recent Fire!
I have always thought it is important to review every incident for areas I can improve on, because contrary to what you may read on social media NO ONE IS PERFECT! Not only that no one has it all figured ...
Read More »Teaching The Working Length
The working length of hose is critical when it comes to an engine companies ability to rapidly extinguish a fire. The working length is that first 50 feet of hose from the nozzle to the first coupling. It is the ...
Read More »The 3 Hours
The 3 hours is something I live by and try an do every day. I talk about the 3 hours in every class I teach, every person I mentor, and every periscope I do. I have even mentioned it on ...
Read More »The Four B’s of the 360
Read any NIOSH report and failure to do a 360 is usually mentioned as a contributing factor. Unfortunately this has turned the 360 into a check box item rather than something to do in order to gain the entire fire ...
Read More »Leadership Tunnel Vision
Webster’s Dictionary defines Tunnel Vision as: constriction of the visual field resulting in loss of peripheral vision extreme narrowness of viewpoint : narrow-mindedness; also : single-minded concentration on one objective In the Fire service, we often associate “tunnel vision” ...
Read More »Hot Zone Fire Ground Concept
There has been a lot of talk lately about cancer prevention. Everything from washing gear, wash your hood Sunday, “baby wipes” has been put out on the table. We keep our gear in a separate room, we attach tubes to ...
Read More »What You Can’t Control, What You Can, and How
“Experience only prevents you from making a mistake the SECOND time, training keeps you from making it the FIRST time” The above is a quote from one of my fire service mentors. While he himself is a veteran of ...
Read More »Don’t Get Caught Up In The Show!
So I just got back from FDIC and as usual learned a TON! One of the lessons I learned was reinforced to me just the other day so I made a short video about it. Thanks to Sam Hittle from ...
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