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Lives in:: Mount Albert, Ontario, Canada

Department:: Toronto Fire Services

Title/rank:: Acting Captain/Instructor

Years of public service:: 20

Agency structure:: Paid fire department

Top issues in your department:: Communications on fireground
Air Monitoring
Staffing levels

Professional Qualifications:: ISO Qualified
HazMat Tech Certified
Trainer/Facilitator for Command Operations

Topics you provide training for:: Incident Management
Command Post Operations
Radio Communications
HazMat
RIT
High Rise Operations

Areas of expertise:: Incident Management
Command Post Operations
Radio Communications

Bio:: 18yrs with Toronto Fire Services - rank of Acting Captain
Lectured at Ontario Fire College
Presented at both FDIC (2 times) and FireHouse Expo
Presented at Chicago Life Safety conference (2 times)
Member of 3 man FF team deployed to Baghdad, Iraq (May/June 2007) to instruct Iraqi FF's in the field of Hazardous Materials Technician
Lead Instructor for department Radio Communications and Mayday Operations
Lead Instructor for departments Fire Ground Incident Technician Program (Chief's Aides)
Spent 15yrs with Military Reserve
Married with 2 children

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At 5:28pm on January 12, 2011, Anthony Avillo said…: definitely understand about the radio confusion. While i fortunately have not had to do this in a real situation and our dept has not adopted this three frequency procedure yet, i was very pleased with the outcomes during our simulated drills. In the chaotic initial moments of a mayday, it is of the utmost importance to keep one's head together, but the heads of everyone else may be a different story thus the radio channelo confusion. We are going to explore it further and see how it goes and hopefully never need it. One thig is 4 certain, if u do not control the communications, it is tough to control your people be safe and thanx 4 the feedback

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