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I don't understand his stance on this. As long as someone is watching the fire floor door while the hose is being stretched, the benenfits of dragging the hose down instead of up is big. And it would be pointless to stretch charged hose up just so...
Absolutely. I am personnally a big fan of reading service journals and books, there is a lot to learn from others experiences. But my department, and I'm sure others, are putting a huge emphasis on certifications. Certs can now be gotten online, a...
I've been worried about the same thing. Things always seem to swing in extremes. We went from a service years ago that looked at safety being for wusses, to now being beat over the head with the safety stick, some departments in my area have alrea...
I too, would like to see that, and for the life of me can't figure out why anyone would purposely want to use Nomex station wear.
This is a pet peeve of mine also. Not only are most departments lacking officer development, at least in my department, I'm not too fond of what is done. My department is on kind of a cert kick, concentrating on the fire officer classes, which are...
A group that discusses, questions, challenges common practices within the fire service such as staffing, tactics, unions, attitudes, government, etc.
NIOSH has a few videos on ppv and they are free through USFA education section.
I have the NIST videos, but they are only in high rises. The one I've gotten the most use out of is the wind driven fire video, both for showing what positive pressure does, and what can happen if not done right. The physics are the same.
If you would rather want to show how to use PPV correctly you should look into the PPV research NIST did, DVD's are available for free!
I have used a software to download Youtube videos, but the problem is quality, especially if you have to blow it up at all.
I may try that best of video, especially if that one is definitely on it.
I agree, respectfully asking why is important. Too many variables to consider to just say "never" or "always".
Todd, I appreciate your stance the "new" generation thing, and I whole heartedly agree with you. Whining about the new generation and h...
I'm gonna speculate a little and say that in a real RIT deployment the sense of urgency will probably be increased. That being said, I'm gonna humbly offer my perspective as a company officer. When I was riding backwards, I felt invincible and put...
RIT always stays on the channel that the MAYDAY crew was working on. They might be entraped or otherwise unable to change radio channels, so you go the channel that they are on. Fire operations goes to the next available TAC channel. IC need to do...
While we are rewriting SOG's, the inevitable debates hold things up, for some things there just is no clear cut answer and each side can make a good case for their argument. Our main debate has been over how to handle communications in relation to...
Profile Information
- Department:
- Farmers Branch, Tx, suburb of Dallas
- Title/rank:
- Captain
- Years of public service:
- 19
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Top issues in your department:
- Same as most, everyone gripes we don't train enough, but gripes when we do. We are being beat to death with cert training to pad resumes, but are empty qualifications. Wrestling with old guys conforming to the challenges of motivating and training new (ie. different from them) recruits. It requires a little bit of open mind, leadership, and just plain willingness to do it. Them young guys are different than us, but as long as they are willing to learn, I'm gonna do what I can to make sure they do, if they aren't willing, then I'm gonna do what I can to get rid of them. I find it rare that one doesn't want to learn.
- Professional Qualifications:
- Many on paper that don't mean squat (or shouldn't). A few more from experience and learning from others that don't go on paper so don't mean squat, but should.
- Topics you provide training for:
- high rises, engine operations, rope rescue, vehicle rescue
- Areas of expertise:
- rope rescue, high rises, stirring the pot.
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 12:56pm on August 25, 2009,
Larry Lasich said…
- Bryan,
No, I'm sorry. I wass sure that I saved it because it as such a great "don't do this" but I guess I didn't. I looked on FR1 and tried to find it on youtube, with no luck.
Again, sorry
Larry
- At 11:25pm on May 4, 2009,
Shanna Hanson said… - Rats. But thanks for the reply :)
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