Date: May 7 & 8, 2010

Location: Ramada City Centre - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Cost: $85 per day or $150 for both days (lunch included)

Registration Deadline April 9th

Friday May 7th

7am to 8am - Registration

8am to 12pm - "Firefighter Rescue and Survival" Presented by Deputy Fire Com… Continue

In my last post, I was talking about the “NEVER” word. You see, we say things around the kitchen table and the young crew members listen and pick up on this stuff. Their minds are quite impressionable at that early age and their concern is to do a good job. So they listen and take in what they hear. So, if you’re at the kitchen table and discussing a fire and one of the old salts says something like “Did you see what Engine 16 did on Elm Street? They used a fog stream inside a building.” Then th… Continue

Date: February 12 and 13, 2010

Time: 8am to 5pm

Location: Holiday Inn Select Downtown, St. Louis, Missouri

Cost: $85.00 each day or $150.00 for both days

Registration deadline January 22nd

Friday February 12th

7am to 8am - Registration

8am to 12pm - "Wind Driven Fires" Presented b… Continue

Early yesterday we were notified by our good friend and founding FOOL John a.k.a. "Bart" Simpson that in Australia a blogger writing about a sex offender firefighter arrested in Australia was using a photograph of a deceased firefighter killed in the line of duty, John Curry that was posted on fireengineering website. The blogger was using firefighter Curry's photo as a generic photo of a firefighter. Two things are highly offensive regarding this man's actions. First there is nothing generic ab… Continue