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Nate Quartier's Groups
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Swift Water Rescue
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The Professor: Buildi...
189 members
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Truck Company Operations
309 members
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“Pride and Ownership”
430 members
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COMPANY DRILLS
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Swift Water Rescue as it relates to the fire service. Forum about equipment, tactics, special hazards, and anything related to swift water rescue.
In this group, we'll discuss all things building construction. What are the lessons of recent fires? What have past fires taught us?. What are the developing trends in construction that will impact our ability to fight future fires?
While it's rare that we get called for just a lockout, we do get called quite regularly for well being checks (good size elderly pop.). Law enforcement is automatically added to the response due to the concerns mentioned by others, and they stand ...
Standard practice for us is to have the first in engine "wrap" the hydrant (the FF gets out, pulls off lines, simply wraps them around the hydrant, and gets back on the engine) and lay in. This way, the lines are down, the crew doesn't lose any ma...
Sadly, we do not have any formal program/drill for saw training. It is also a subject not covered in the fire academy, as it just teaches "minium standards" (Personally, I feel the saw should be one). The general feeling seems to be that "it's jus...
This is a great post that has been started. I'm a new co. officer in a dept. (like many) suffering from low morale/budget cuts, etc. I have been trying to come up with hands on drill to help get our members (at least my company) back in the spirit...
Like everyone else, our department is trying to win the battle with city hall. We currently run an Officer, DE, and FF on every rig (total of two engines and two quints out of four stations). The city wants to reduce to two man engines, not backfi...
Profile Information
- Residence.
- Palm Coast, FL
- Department:
- Ormond Beach Fire Department
- Title/rank:
- Lieutenant
- Years of public service:
- 13
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Top issues in your department:
- Budget Cuts
Company Staffing
Training
- Topics you provide training for:
- Water rescue
Apparatus operations
- Web site:
- http://www.iaff3499.com
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Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 5:30pm on April 27, 2008,
Frank Ricci said… - Take a look and sign up to our group we could use your input. Tactical Building Blocks & Air Management. If you search groups by most members we are list at the top.
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.
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