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Trevor Ashe
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Trevor Ashe's Discussions
Motivating members for a physical phytness program
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I am a volunteer. I have a Monday through Friday, 9-5 job that sometimes has me working nights and weekends outside of my duties at the station and on calls. I am an unpaid professional, or at…Continue
Tags: nutrition, exercise, CrossFit, Fitness
Started this discussion. Last reply by P.J. Norwood May 2, 2012.
The lost art of the fire service
What is the lost art of the fire service? Is it a specific technique? A size up routine? A way to use certain tools? Or is it something much more basic than this?In my opinion, the lost art of the…Continue
Tags: technique, question, why, art, service
Started Feb 26, 2012
My take on VSP
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I like to think of myself as thoughtful and logical. I try to take time to think topics of discussion over and to calculate my response. So, after taking time to read the articles and ensuing…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dave LeBlanc Jan 18, 2012.
Ionization smoke alarms SAVE LIVES!
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Actually, I feel just the opposite.Let me set the stage for my argument here.December 17, 2005. Barre City, Vermont. The Barre City Fire Department was dispatched to a working structure fire with…Continue
Tags: fatality, fire, detectors, Smoke
Started this discussion. Last reply by mmaan Dec 23, 2011.
Stay safe...and low
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P.J. Norwood replied to Trevor Ashe's discussion Motivating members for a physical phytness program"Trevor, check out my below blog; http://community.fireengineering.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1219672%3ABlogPost%3A442218
As an added note; this past Sunday I received a text from one of my members that stated "1 year ago today I weighed in at…"
"What about cutting the brackets off of the cross bar (or the hocky puck lock if that's a quick enough cut to get through), then cutting through the hinges? Might make more sense to go hinge side than lock side? I dont see any bolts…"
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Hello Trevor, I applaud you on taking pride in your level of fitness. It can be very frustrating to motivate the "unmotivated" especially when we (as firefighters) all know that we are more likely to die from heart attack…"
Motivating members for a physical phytness program
I am a volunteer. I have a Monday through Friday, 9-5 job that sometimes has me working nights and weekends outside of my duties at the station and on calls. I am an unpaid professional, or at least I try to be :) In my "spare time" (which is a term that is coming to be less and less familiar to me) I do what I can to provide my service to my community at the fire house. Just ask my fiance and she will tell you how much time I give! :) For myself, I have fully embraced the concepts and…See More
"From a strictly safety standpoint.....
What I think they did well
First and foremost, they had their egress point and knew where it was. Their reflexes took over and they all went for the same area immediately. I think that this…"
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"As far as your question of "when do we ventilate", every time we do something to the building...we ventilate. Ventilation starts the moment we open the front door...because forcible entry into a fire building is also the first act of…"
"I absolutely LOVE it when the IC looks to me and says, "Open the roof"!!!!
I have always been in favor of "vent high, vent early, vent often". Let me clarify that statement.
Vent High - You should vent as high…"
The lost art of the fire service
What is the lost art of the fire service? Is it a specific technique? A size up routine? A way to use certain tools? Or is it something much more basic than this?In my opinion, the lost art of the fire service is a question. It is a way of understanding the job that we do. Now, I only have 11 humble years under my belt, but I have been involved with enough rookie training in my neck of the woods to understand that not enough new firefighters are asking, in my opinion, THE most important…See More
Dave LeBlanc replied to Trevor Ashe's discussion My take on VSP"Short answer your question - training and experience."
Patrick Brown replied to Trevor Ashe's discussion My take on VSP"I don't think anyone is ever 100% comfortable making life and death decisions...nor do I think we should be. We get into this business to help people. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to make decisions that cost lifes to save other lifes. I…"
Dave LeBlanc replied to Trevor Ashe's discussion My take on VSP""I don't believe the author of VSP is saying don't do your job. I think he is saying look at the entire picture and make desicions based on that picture. People can't survive in fully involved buildings. If the interior fire…"
Patrick Brown replied to Trevor Ashe's discussion My take on VSP"Dave, unfortunately they were not protecting a truck crew. They were acting as the suppression team and the rescue team simultaneously....another reason why they shouldn't have made entry. Actions like this have to make one wonder why things…"
Profile Information
- Lives in:
- VT
- Department:
- Colchester Center Volunteer Fire Company
- Title/rank:
- Lieutenant
- Years of public service:
- 10
- Agency structure:
- Volunteer fire department
- Top issues in your department:
- Staffing, staffing, staffing.
- Professional Qualifications:
- FF!, Fire Instructor 1, HazMat Ops
- Topics you provide training for:
- Help out with training all aspects in our volunteer department.
- Areas of expertise:
- VES, search, common sense practices, understanding WHY we do things a certain way, thinking outside the box firefighting
- Bio:
- 25. Been in the fire service since I was 15. 4 years with Saint Michael's College Fire and Rescue. Served 2 years as a lieutenant and 1 year as Assistant BC. So happy to be back to a lt and not wear white. Felt too heavy and I'm not too proud to say that.
Stay safe...and low.
- Web site:
- http://www.colchesterfire.org
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Trevor Ashe's Blog
A scary trend
One of the headlines on FireEngineering this morning reads"NY fire dept says it's recruiting more minorities". This statement doesn't sit well with me....
I come from Vermont...potentially the least diverse state in the Union. So maybe it's just my lack of experience dealing with racial issues, or maybe it's my lack of understanding on WHY IT MATTERS? Wasn't the whole civil rights movement about getting past the color of someones skin? I get it...there were terrible,…
ContinuePosted on August 11, 2011 at 10:51am — 2 Comments
First due on scene report
One of the first things I learned when I started in the fire service at the impressionable age of 15 was the importance of the first-due on-scene report. I remember sitting in the living room with my older brother when a call came over the scanner. (I would be lying if I said that I remember what department got called out, or what the call was.) We listened for a little bit, and them my brother, being the older, wiser, (albeit uglier) fire fighter that he was, did as he often did and…
ContinuePosted on July 27, 2011 at 1:30pm
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