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Michael Emillio
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Pandora's Box
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Tactical Building Bloc...
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High-Rise Fire Group
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Michael Emillio's Discussions
RIT speed.
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RIT speed.
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Chief, I've really been giving it consideration. I'll have to talk to you and Spence more about it. Thanks.
Chief,
This I have actually ranted on in the threads for the local. As I am sure you are aware, we are recipient of at least 2 individuals who had to be given extra turns to pass their newboy physical requirements. I purposely use the term recipi...
A group that discusses, questions, challenges common practices within the fire service such as staffing, tactics, unions, attitudes, government, etc.
Thanks Bryan. I don't want to come off hypercritical, or like a know it all, it just seems to me that speed needs to be taught to the officers as well.
I hear the same argument a lot in the fire service: "I'm the officer, and you are in my charge...
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...
Just finished a very comprehensive class on RIT tactics (train the trainer). The focus of this class was to train those of us who will be training FD personnel in our department in a sort of "back to the basics" attempt to establish a baseline of ...
This group will focus on aggressive interior firefighting. We will address tactics that increase your chance of not getting jammed up and cover what actions to undertake if you do.We will cover some big issues as well as small tactical tips.
Thanks Chief.
Martijn,
Hello from Oklahoma City. A Chief of mine started this group, and he would be good to comment here, but I'll see if I can beat him to the punch.
Our department's high rise policy states that a reconnaisance/search group will go as high ...
So many cities have High-Rise structures and the tactics used by various departments varies as much as the cities themselves. The group is designed to allow Metro-City and Big-City firefighters discuss this challenging aspect of our jobs.
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- Residence.
- Mustang, Ok
- Department:
- Oklahoma City Fire Department
- Title/rank:
- Firefighter/Paramedic
- Years of public service:
- 8
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Professional Qualifications:
- FF II, Rope Rescue Technician, Trench Tech, Structural Collapse Tech, USAR, Paramedic instructor, Haz Mat Tech, CISM,
- Bio:
- Albuquerque native, moved to Oklahoma because I married an Okie. 3 kids Pearce 9, Ella 6, Holden 2. Married for 11 years. I love being a fireman.
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- At 6:14pm on August 12, 2009,
Michael Bricault said…
- Yes that was indeed me and we were picking up chow. I hope you were able to pick up a cap. Regards from Ladder Co. 5.
Contrary to my friend Bobby, Saggio's is ok for pizza; Godfather's or Giovani's is better. NYPD pizza is pretty good too.
- At 1:19pm on April 29, 2009,
Bobby Halton said… - Mike,
being a native New Yorker I would never eat at Dions unless I was starving! but there is a good pizza in Albuquerque at a place called Saggios which is excellent!
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