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Dave LeBlanc's Groups (45)
Forcible Entry/ Forcible Exit!
18 members Latest Activity: 16 hours ago All things under the heading Forcible entry/ exit. Tools, methods (which are most effective in your area?) , locks, bars, gates, enclosures (What's ne…
Tommy Truck
23 members Latest Activity: Nov 20 Looking for personal experiences/stories of how Tom Brennan inspired, lead, or taught you about firefighting. From Random Thoughts, to war stories of…
HazMat Placards to Success
57 members Latest Activity: 8 hours ago HazMat Placards to Success will provide a step by step process for response to a Hazardous Materials incident.
Pandora's Box
55 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 A group that discusses, questions, challenges common practices within the fire service such as staffing, tactics, unions, attitudes, government, etc.
Getting Promoted
19 members Latest Activity: Oct 10 A place to share your "tricks of the trade" for promotional testing, assesment centers and interviewing..
TOOLS OF THE TRADE-BASIC TOOLS OF THE JOB
82 members Latest Activity: Nov 14
Books, Articles, Web Sites
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20 Have you read any good books or articles lately or discovered a web site that may benefit this community? Are you looking for information on a partic…
Illinois Fire Service Institute
55 members Latest Activity: Jun 24 This group is for Field Staff, Institute Staff, Institute Researchers, students and other interested parties. All topics related to the Institute's…
Common Sense Firefighting
168 members Latest Activity: Nov 11 A group dedicated to Decision Making and Leadership on the Fire Ground
Round Table Revisited
51 members Latest Activity: Sep 24 Monthly, I will disect the responses of the Monthly Round Table section of Fire Engineering. After providing some "statistical" data from the respons…
Command Safety
42 members Latest Activity: Sep 24 Forum on mission critical challenges during combat fire engagement in the areas of; Building Construction, Risk, Operations, Behaviors & Safety suppor…
Firefighters Research Group
32 members Latest Activity: May 22 A place for firefighters who are looking to research a subject can have other firefighters provide research articles, standards, and references. Why s…
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FireFighterClose Calls
216 members Latest Activity: Oct 31 Fires & runs with a "Close Call" where we coulda, shoulda, woulda-or, it was simply not avoidable. Short and sweet: what happened, what we learned, wo…
Thermal Imaging in the Fire Service
50 members Latest Activity: Oct 18 A discussion forum for tips, tricks, and any training or uses of TI Cameras in todays Fire Service
Tradition, TRADITION!
295 members Latest Activity: Nov 18 This is the group dedicated to the glue that holds "Pride and Ownership" together - tradition! We'll be talking about historic fires, important dates…
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Tools and Tricks
176 members Latest Activity: Nov 3 Tools that you carry in your pockets, on your rigs, have fabricated or modified. All ideas are welcome, Truck, Engine, Rescue..... Show us!
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Our Next Generation......The Rookie
49 members Latest Activity: Sep 25 We talk a lot about changing the Fire Service for the Better. What kind of energy are we investing in our rookies. They are our profession's next gen…
F.O.O.L.S.
183 members Latest Activity: Nov 18 Come and discuss or brag about your Fraternal Order of Leatherheads Society (FOOLS) organization. Looking to start a chapter in your area, I am sure…
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Personnel Escape Systems
42 members Latest Activity: Oct 12 Open to discuss the pro's and con's of systems, and the question of should every firefighter have one, and all training aspects.
Communications?
42 members Latest Activity: Sep 8 This group exists to allow firefighters discuss all of the wonders of today's technological gems. The good and the bad of radio and computer communica…
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