November 2010 Blog Posts (86)

Confined Space Rescue Hierarchy

Confined Space Rescue Hierarchy

By Scott Goodwin, COSS

With all of the recent talk on confined space incidents and what has gone wrong during the rescues it is time to talk about the different types of rescues and the options that are available in a rescue. As a fire officer and confined space rescue technician, you should not be relying on the local fire department to be your rescue team. This is the most common mistake and is also a possible OSHA violation. Secondly, most… Continue

Added by Lt. R. Scott Goodwin on November 2, 2010 at 2:15pm — No Comments

What Can Go Wrong in Confined Space Rescues

What Can Go Wrong in Confined Space Rescues?

Part two of a two part series

Scott Goodwin, COSS

Recently, we have all seen the media attention on some of the confined space rescues that have gone wrong. From May 2010 to September 2010 there were three high profile confined space rescues that resulted in three workers perishing, six injured rescuers and one fatality of a rescuer. So what went so horribly wrong that in these three…

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Added by Lt. R. Scott Goodwin on November 2, 2010 at 2:12pm — 1 Comment

Confined Space Rescue Failures

Confined Space Rescue…Is it worth killing yourself over?

Part one of a two part series

By Scott Goodwin, COSS

May 8, 2010 Middletown, OH a worker conducting a non-entry inspection of a manhole was incapacitated and fell into the hole. Moments later, two firefighters lowered their Captain into the hole to conduct the rescue. All three firefighters are overcome and nearly perish in the botched rescue.

May 26, 2010 Liberty Township, Indiana a worker is… Continue

Added by Lt. R. Scott Goodwin on November 2, 2010 at 2:08pm — No Comments

It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Fire: Lightweight construction has fire prevention implications, too

It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Fire

Lightweight construction has fire prevention implications, too

By Jim Crawford

“It’s not your grandfather’s fire.”

That phrase was used by Bob Backstrom of Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to describe the kind of fire produced by modern contents, construction techniques and… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on November 2, 2010 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

November Training Prompt: How Is Your Truck Work Defined?

November's training prompt challenges you to look at one important part of truck work: Ladders.

Truck work, or ladder company operations, do not require a ladder company apparatus. Having a 100' aerial or a 75' tower ladder is a great advantage; however many of the key truck work basics do not require the "stick." For some of you, these basics are covered by the firefighter riding across from you (he or she may be the forcible entry… Continue

Added by Bill Carey on November 1, 2010 at 5:19pm — No Comments

What’s the Difference Between Using a Search Rope & a Rope-Assisted Search?

TRUCK COMPANY OPERATIONS

Understand the factors that affect whether you will enter a building to conduct a search—and what type of search you’ll conduct once you’re in

By Michael M. Dugan

Searching a fire building can be an extremely difficult and time-consuming task for any truck company. One of our options to help us in this endeavor—a… Continue

Added by Fire Rescue Magazine on November 1, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments