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Firefighter Development Symposium - Milwaukee

Date: May 7 & 8, 2010 Location: Ramada City Centre - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cost: $85 per day or $150 for both days (lunch included) Registration Deadline April 9th Friday May 7th 7am to 8am - Registration 8am to 12pm - "Firefighter Rescue and Survival" Presented by Deputy Fire Com… Continue

Added by Brett Graves on November 17, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

More "Nevers"

In my last post, I was talking about the “NEVER” word. You see, we say things around the kitchen table and the young crew members listen and pick up on this stuff. Their minds are quite impressionable at that early age and their concern is to do a good job. So they listen and take in what they hear. So, if you’re at the kitchen table and discussing a fire and one of the old salts says something like “Did you see what Engine 16 did on Elm Street? They used a fog stream inside a building.” Then th… Continue

Added by Skip Coleman on November 17, 2009 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Firefighter Development Symposium - St. Louis

Date: February 12 and 13, 2010 Time: 8am to 5pm Location: Holiday Inn Select Downtown, St. Louis, Missouri Cost: $85.00 each day or $150.00 for both days Registration deadline January 22nd Friday February 12th 7am to 8am - Registration 8am to 12pm - "Wind Driven Fires" Presented b… Continue

Added by Brett Graves on November 17, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Score One Win for the Good Guys!

Early yesterday we were notified by our good friend and founding FOOL John a.k.a. "Bart" Simpson that in Australia a blogger writing about a sex offender firefighter arrested in Australia was using a photograph of a deceased firefighter killed in the line of duty, John Curry that was posted on fireengineering website. The blogger was using firefighter Curry's photo as a generic photo of a firefighter. Two things are highly offensive regarding this man's actions. First there is nothing generic ab… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on November 13, 2009 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Nominate the 2010 Ray Downey Courage and Valor Award Winner

We are actively soliciting your participation in helping us select the next Ray Downey Courage and Valor award winner for FDIC 2010. The medal along with a check for $35,000 will be presented to the winner during the Main program at FDIC 2010 to send a nomination follow the link here and download a nomination form from the site. http://courageandvalor.com/ Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on November 12, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Veteran's Day

This is an editorial cartoon I created a few years back for Veteran's Day - with a fire service twist. Please remember our fire Brothers and Sisters who are serving at home and abroad. Take care, stay safe, and come home soon!

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Added by Paul Combs on November 11, 2009 at 7:43am — 2 Comments

Grant for add on Fire Dept

Our fire department,has did and lot of work on our fire dept. Things are looking great,and we have been putting in some kind of hours. I just got the time to be back on this site. Since i quit the care giver job,after finding out,one of the homes was eat up with Black mold and bacteria.,which i got asthma.Since i quit ,my asthma has not gave me no trouble. Since then,the lady has moved out of her home,to another home next door,which may have mold.These brick homes was built close to the ground.… Continue

Added by Brenda Tenney on November 9, 2009 at 5:34pm — No Comments

My Decision....

So as you know from my last posting that I have taken a break from firefighting. Well after I have my surgery on December 1st and recover from rehab and such I have decided to return to the department. At the age of 21 I have seen a lot of things people twice my age will never imagine of seeing, but even with that, my heart is in being a firefighter. So around the summer season of 2010 I will be returning and be back where I belong and this time it's for good. It feels so good to know I will be… Continue

Added by Christian Cossey on November 6, 2009 at 5:38pm — 1 Comment

FDIC Smoke Symposium

For all who missed the Midwestern Smoke Symposium, the CPTC will host a 4-hour Smoke Symposium at FDIC on April 19. For details: http://www.fdic.com/index/conference/2010-workshops.html. Instructors include Rob Schnepp, Frank Ricci, Kevin Reilly, Mike Gagliano and Bruce Evans. This is NOT to be missed. Also, for those who haven't heard, another firefighter was saved from the toxic impact of smoke inhalation. The Cyanokit did… Continue

Added by Shawn Longerich on November 6, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Never say Never

I usually question veteran firefighters that tell a recruit or new-be “Son! Never hit smoke with a hose stream – Only the “red-stuff”!” or “Never take your gloves off”. (For those of you who are scratching your head saying “Tommie told me to never hit smoke”! If your intent is to cool unprotected steel, like the underside of a metal deck roof you are crawling under and all you see is smoke up there – it’s OK to hit smoke! I’ll discuss the glove thing in a minute.) You see, when we tell these “mi… Continue

Added by Skip Coleman on November 5, 2009 at 4:00pm — 9 Comments

IAFF WEEK OF ACTION

The following is an important release from the IAFF Take Action on Health Care Reform Tell Congress Not to Tax Your Benefits The IAFF is joining the AFL-CIO for a National Week of Action on health care reform. The activities kick off November 5 with an ad campaign focusing on finding a fair way to pay for health care reform. The ads will appear in Politico, Roll Call, The Hill and The Washington Post and highlight the U.S. House health care bill as a model for reform. The IAFF has been lobbyin… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on November 5, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

A very interesting study by NIST

NIST Quantifies Low Levels of ‘Heart Attack Risk’ Protein Computer-generated image of the structure for C-reactive protein Credit: S. Kolstoe, Center for Amyloidosis, University College, London, UK Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it’s worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person at high risk of a heart attack circulating within a haystack of human serum (liquid component of blood). C-reactive protein (CRP), a molecule produced by th… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on November 3, 2009 at 3:34pm — No Comments

What are a list of minimum standards do your departments have to met every year for training.

What are a list of minimum standards do your departments have to met every year for training. Continue

Added by David Baxter on November 2, 2009 at 5:01pm — 1 Comment

size up photos for training

I am curently looking for size up photos for aspiring and current officers. I have been all over the web with limited success. Does anyone have any photos they would be willing to share and or point me in the right direction. I have visited many of the usual suspects: fire nuggets, engineering and google photos. I have seen a lot of very cool stuff but, not what I am looking for. Photo wise I can use everything from mobile homes to commercial/taxpayer photos. We have it all in district. Thank yo… Continue

Added by Frank Beauvais on October 30, 2009 at 3:26pm — 2 Comments

Safer Grant Application Period Open

Safer Grant Application Period Open The Department of Homeland Security today announced that the application period for the SAFER Grants is now open. It's important to remember that in June of this year the president approved new rules for how the SAFER Grant is going to be allocated and accessed this year. Fire departments this year can use SAFER money not only to increase staffing which is fundamentally important for safe firefighting but now departments can use SAFER money to rehire la… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on October 30, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Sprinklers Win Common Sense Wins Finally!

Important Code Update: from the AFSA In today's meeting of the International Code Council (ICC) in Baltimore, Maryland, proposals made to eliminate the requirement for residential fire sprinklers in the International Residential Code (IRC) were defeated. These requirements were included in the 2009 IRC, to become effective January 1, 2011. Proposals to modify the 2012 International Residential Code included RB 54, which would have removed the mandatory requirement and made it an optional provis… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on October 29, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Congressional Fire Services Institute Webinar featuring Dr. Denis Onieal

Congressional Fire Services Institute Webinar featuring Dr. Denis Onieal, Superintendent of the National Fire Academy CFSI Webinar Series DATE: November 5, 2009 TIME: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. (EST) LOCATION: Your personal computer! COST: Free RSVP: Email malderfer@cfsi.org Moderated by Bill Webb, CFSI Executive Director, the program will feature Dr. Denis Onieal, Superintendent of the National Fire Academy. The two of them will talk about firefighter safety and the leading role of the National Fir… Continue

Added by Bobby Halton on October 28, 2009 at 3:06pm — No Comments

Looking Back!

As usual I I found cool and interesting historical stuff from Chief Billy on Firefighter Close Calls.com. Probably got this stuff from our very own fire service history wizard Chief Glenn Corbett...LOL Anyway this was recently posted on the site about two historic fires tragically claiming the lives of our brothers in years past. REMEMBERING THE LOSS OF 3 PHILADELPHIA FIREFIGHTERS "ONE MERIDIAN PLAZA" Took plac… Continue

Added by Brad Hoff on October 22, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Taking a Shot at Public Health

As a firefighter/paramedic, I'm embarrassed over the scene being created by health care workers (including nurses, medics, and firefighters) refusing flu vaccination. The consequences are serious: they cast public doubt over the best tactic we have to prevent spread of influenza in our communities. Vaccines have slashed death rates from twenty five diseases. Get a flu shot in the fall and you are half as likely to die during winter as people who don’t. When physicians, nurses, medics, and… Continue

Added by Mike McEvoy on October 22, 2009 at 10:01am — 10 Comments

It's like riding a bike

As I mentioned in my last blog about buddy breathing, 75% of what you learn (hands-on wise) is lost - forgotten, if you don't reinforce (practice) it within two weeks. There is psychological theory that states "when people are put in a stressful situation, they revert to what is "usual and customary" for them. These to "theory's" work hand in hand and ignoring them has cost a lot of us our lives. Rick Lasky took self-rescue and firefighter rescue to new levels several years ago. With the "Saving… Continue

Added by Skip Coleman on October 20, 2009 at 4:43pm — 4 Comments

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