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 ...
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Placards
Placards are used to help us identify what a vehicle is hauling. They usually have a corresponding number in the ERG to let us know what to do when we encounter the corresponding material. However would you be surprised to ...
Read More »Fire Ground Commander Conference
SAVE THE DATE! The Fire Ground Commander Conference is coming to the Richmond Virginia area! Specifically to the Henrico Theatre in March of 2018! This is the brain child of Benjamin Martin from Embrace The Resistance Ben much like the ...
Read More »Ultra High Pressure Training Summit
I recently returned from the Ultra High Pressure Training Summit, held in Middleton Wisconsin by the Middleton Fire Protection District in conjunction with the ATF. The conference was set up to teach, demonstrate and present the techniques and tactics utilized ...
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 »Friends on Firefighter Training Podcast
I am an avid listener to Chief Pete Lamb’s Firefighter Training Podcast, and have been a guest twice. Recently two people near and dear to me have been guests as well. First my wife Karen author of Incident Command for ...
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 ...
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