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Jeffrey S Austin
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Technical Rescue
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Motorsports Rescue
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The brands are really immaterial, it's more about the style. While I personally like the design of the Traditional I also know that one of the biggest problems is getting entrapped by fallen debris, such as wiring, wire mesh, etc. The Traditional ...
To start with, learn to eat, sleep & breath the fire service. Read everything you can about tactics, building construction, hydraulics, etc. I strongly urge you to not just take a course or two at your community college but acutually enroll in the...
Iowa FFs Rescue Driver from Burning Race Car
DES MOINES, Iowa --
Firefighters pulled a man from a burning sprint car Saturday at the Knoxville Raceway as thousands of fans watched.
The crash happened on turn three right in front of a group of f...
discuss issues, incidents, causes and prevention of Structural collapse in rescue operations
Does your department have technical rescue capabilities? What kind of problems are you facing in regards to staffing, training and equipment? If you have any gadgets or special techniques, this is the place to share them.
Excellent editorial cartoon. I was laid off once in the mid 70's and went into the military because I had a family to support. I retired from the military and as I was going through the application process, with the same fire department, I was lai...
I've had a chance to speak with a few of the large insurance and re-insurance firms that have offices in the US. I found it amazing that only one of them knew of the existence of NFPA 610. It may have been just the individual that I was talking to...
We have a couple of dirt tracks in SE Virginia that meet that standard of what I had previously mentioned as "rung what ya brung" and "mom and pop" ops. The problem is if you read, closely, the fine print in the race contract. Many say if you get ...
In my opinion, we don't adhere to NFPA 610 so the owners of the race tracks don't either. I've been to some "mom & pop" race tracks that the crash crews have a "run what ya brung" attitude. We pushed for NFPA 1403 because we were killing ourselves...
Doug,
I hadn't seen it. I just ordered the book. Thanks for the heads up.
BC Raymond Downey (5555, 11 SEP 2001) book, The Rescue Company would be one of my first sources of information. The book can be purchased from the Fire Engineering website. He writes about some of the incidents that the FDNY Rescue companies had b...
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- Residence.
- Hampton Roads VA
- Title/rank:
- Firefighter
- Years of public service:
- 25+
- Agency structure:
- Combination fire department
- Professional Qualifications:
- Firefighter 1 & 2
HAZMAT Awareness / Operations
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