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Cool idea for teaching fire behavior and combustibles...as well I can see a use for using your ideas for teachin pyrolosis. thanks
mike newbury said:Jeffery A. Hartle said:I utilized the Carmody Combustible Hazards kit during the early 1990s teac...
Jeffery A. Hartle said:I utilized the Carmody Combustible Hazards kit during the early 1990s teaching industrial fire brigade members. It is an amazing tool for live demonstrations of fire chemistry under controlled circumstances. While most of th...
In ST. Louis sop is 50' 2 1/2 or 3"" with a gated wye, 2X 50' of 1 3/4" with an adjustable tip in pre made packs. Same for the back up line which connects into the first companies 2 1/2" with gated wye. The third line in is to be 150' of 2 1/2" or...
Tom;
Sorry, did not catch the no basement windows, and no exterior basement exit. While the overwhelming majority of private dwellings in my city have these, I understand many cities do not.
A few homes in my area only have interior basement stair...
Tom Platt said:Thanks Mike. Unfortunately two key factors you mentioned were not the case in my particular scenario. 1-no exterior basement access and 2-inaccessible basement windows (covered by ~4 ft. deep porch). That being said, that chimney ef...
I know guys like this...and some who just think this stuff is all stupid. (too macho for training or safety)...I don't agree with either of them and am working on those guys
I was gonna post more but its tuff to top genarro's list, In SLFD we expect to company officer to be with the "tip man" or nozzleman, but to do all he said including unless impossible (block square or bigger building) the complete 360 and a good s...
What is commonly done in STLFD is to have the first line attack through the bunker door (door from the basement directly to the out side) which is commonly in the rear of the home if a single family or 2,4,or 8 family 2 story flat (our bread and b...
Frank,
In stlfd we have an ecclectic mix of KNOX boxes, keys held by the FD, waiting on key holders, fd access windows (uasually 3rd. floor or above) etc. What we do is obviously use the Knox box, key, or fd window when we can, and wait for a key ...
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- Residence.
- 7848 Leona
- Department:
- St. Louis Fire Dept.
- Title/rank:
- Captain
- Years of public service:
- 17
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Top issues in your department:
- training, buying into new ideas, professional education
- Professional Qualifications:
- Swift water RSQ, Dive RSQ, Boat RSQ, haz mat opns, Arff, Instructor1,ICS 400
- Topics you provide training for:
- ARFF, ICS, Basic structural, MCI
- Areas of expertise:
- Pumper opns. ARFF, Water Rsq.
- Bio:
- College wrestler, turned Navy salvage diver, turned firefighter for 17 years and lovin it
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- At 10:59am on May 2, 2009,
Nick Morgan said… - Hey Mikey, welcome aboard!!
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