My Firefighter Nation
Today's Trainers
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Building construction
I would like to hear different people's opinions on the subject of building construction. things you have learned through years on the job, or through taking courses in college. your input is needed
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Managing multiple structures involed on one scene
I am going to borrow this idea from the comments and expand it to a discussion.I know it is reasonably common in urban or suburban areas but out here in my neck of the woods it isn't all that common,but it does happen.The one incident that pops into my head was one where we had 2 large structures(a…
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Training on rural water supply ops.
I just ran a short drill with a crew of 4 of my folks on water supply.I gave them a scenario of a pond off the road with no access road close to it and told them I wanted them to list what they would need to flow a 500 gpm(min.)supply from it.I used an actual location in our response area and told…
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DIsoriented Firefighter
My company has been tasked to create a department training on the disoriented firefighter. We plan to do a powerpoint and a practical skills exercise. What do you do? A secondary requirement of this training is educating our members on what to do if a floor collapses and you drop down into a…
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R.I.T./F.A.S.T.
During the 1990s, the Federal Government got into the process when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the “two-in/two-out” rule, which mandates that when two firefighters enter an atmosphere that presents an immediate danger to life and health (IDLH), at least two…
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Highway/Roadway Safety
Highway/Road safety is one of the newer hot topics that needs to be talked about more and proper training practiced. It seems as though we are seeing more incidents where emergency service personnel are getting hurt on our highways and roads. Establishing a proper safety zone utilizing apparatus…
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Today's Building vs Yesterday's Building
Several of us were sitting around the other day talking about how different our buildings of today are compared to those of yesteryear. Not only in the design and construction of the buildings but also the contents of the buildings now a days. Things have changed so dramatically over the years…
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Offensive vs. Defensive
With the many changes in today's society, we are encountering more and more "new norms" and are continually being asked to do more with less. With this in mind, we as officers and senior firefighters need to rethink the factors that lead us to making that offensive or defensive attack. We need to…
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Multiple Buildings/Truck Placement
On this particular incident, our department was dispatched to a report of a structure fire. While enroute, we were advised by dispatch that several barns were now involved. Truck placement was an issue on this particular incident due to the area where the trucks were operating consisted of a…
