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California Helmet Cams:Hayward and Contra Costa County
Why we believe this first-person view is important to the fire service. Two helmet camera videos from California highlight why we believe that with good footage and editing, these types of videos are...
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Seaside Working:California Helmet Cam View of Store Fire
Response and arrival at this small taxpayer job. The is a three part video from Seaside California. The Seaside Fire Department operates with staffing of three to four on engine and truck company...
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“Good Job”
Getting good at getting by can get you killed The rookie sits in the jumpseat straightening out his SCBA straps, lost in thought. He thinks to himself, that the fire was nothing like what they taught...
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The Firehouse Kitchen,aka “In-House Training Academy”Send Us Your Meal Time Pics
More fires may have been fought here than in the entire city The image from the article below has me thinking that so much of our culture, our conversation, is developed around the kitchen table. The...
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Execution of Excellence
No policy or procedure will ever be effective if it is written, placed in a book and never looked at again. "The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,...
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Brooklyn Rescues Highlight Knowing Your Apparatus Placement and Overcoming...
Will you fit? Better find out before the box Companies in the 39th Battalion responded to Box 1873 for the reported fire on the fourth floor of 1308 Loring Avenue on 29 July 2014. Reports of children...
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Seaford, DE Working: Initial Attack Photos AND Training for Extinguishment
First line action at Bloxom School Road fire Seaford Delaware firefighters responded to a house fire on Bloxom School Road on Sunday, 28 September. Photos below are from Wayne Barrall of Hit The...
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What is Experience?
In and out, day after day, but what are you doing on each run? The U.S. Army’s Caisson Platoon at Fort Myer, Virginia is responsible for bringing the deceased to their final resting place at...
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“We Can’t F–K Around” Running the Big Lines at Queens Apartment Fire
So he cursed; the big deal is he had them go big. Will you? “51 to Command.†“Command, go.†“51 to Command, they’re hittin’ the fire in the original building, in the cockloft, but...
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Brooklyn High-Rise, “Probably Will Hold” in 30 Minutes: Fireground and HRN...
Fire showing from the 25th floor 2 January 2015, 2345 hours 2 Northside Piers, Kent Avenue and North 5th Street Engine Company 221 transmitted the 10-77 for the fire in a 31-story multiple...
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