Alexis Shady & Chris Tobin
There is a quote that I believe represents the vast majority of the fire service concerning buildings, it reads;
“Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.”
Thoreau, Henry
Simply put, we all see buildings but few understand what they’re actually looking at. That’s a problem, a really big problem and for…
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Firefighters must be confident in ground ladder operations. That includes knowing what size ladder is needed to get the job done safely, efficiently, and on the first try. Passing Firefighter I doesn’t make someone an expert. Confidence required for basic skills comes through repetition. No matter how long a firefighter has “been on the job” they must constantly refresh the basics.
Frequently throwing different ground ladders builds confidence in choosing the best…
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Truth!
STAY FIRED UP, and get to work!
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In the world of firehouse life there are a select few who have elevated the art of complaining to Mount Everest proportions. In fact, they are so skilled at whining and grumbling that they most certainly could win Gold if there was ever a Gripe Olympics! What's worse, it's remarkably easy to be pulled down into their pit of despair and backstabbing -…
Added by Paul Combs on July 17, 2019 at 7:54am — No Comments
Anyone who has seen the HBO Mini-Series “Band of Brothers” knows who Major Richard Winters is. The leader of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment states in his book, “Beyond Band of Brothers” that, “Having selected the right men for the job, I then delegated the authority to my subordinates and allowed them to use their initiative to execute the mission. There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your…
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Yep, we all know this instructor... and hopefully it's not you!
STAY FIRED UP, and teach beyond the slide!
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Added by Paul Combs on March 28, 2019 at 8:27am — No Comments
No use complaining about a bad crop when you sowed bad seeds. So, what kind of firefighter are you and your training program creating?
STAY FIRED UP, and own your baby!
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Added by Paul Combs on March 15, 2019 at 8:13am — No Comments
Washington D.C. isn't the only place where political buffoonery runs amuck! Hopefully you still have a leg to stand on, because many do not.
STAY FIRED UP, and training hard with what you have.
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Added by Paul Combs on February 20, 2019 at 7:57am — No Comments
How well are you training and preparing your officers to manage your most important resource?
STAY FIRED UP, and train!
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Originally hosted at: http://www.leatherheadmafia.com/through-the-lock-respectful-entry/
Firefighter through-the-lock forcible entry. A less destructive and more technical entry that results in gaining patient and occupant access on…
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This episode discusses the transitioning from an engine or other company to the truck company. Your panel discusses the differences you can expect when operating on a truck company as…
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The inventor, thinker, genius, mathematician and smart guy, Albert Einstein once said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” We worked the same way for a long time (282 years or so) and our injuries and LODD’s became part of life. However, it seems we’re on our way to better days. Changing the way 1 million firefighters think and behave is not an easy task. What most of us who have been around for a few minutes talk about,…
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NEW Fire Engineering editorial cartoon: Charging Nowhere.
This commentary came to me while presenting Get Fired Up at a regional fire conference where an instructor was boasting about how his training academy was using nothing but dollhouses and YouTube…
Added by Paul Combs on November 15, 2017 at 9:08am — No Comments
Always wear your innovative common sense glasses for proper protection from backwards thinking, stuck in the past, afraid to try new ideas, total eclipses.
Stay Fire Up, and always be ask "how can this be better?"…
Added by Paul Combs on August 21, 2017 at 9:46am — No Comments
There are a few professions where you can fake it through an entire career and never be exposed as a fraud - whether career or volunteer, firefighting is NOT one of them. Sure, you might slide for a while, but sooner or later you're going to ride the bull and there's simply nowhere to hide when you do. So the message here is simple: Get serious, be dedicated,…
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The purpose of the contest is to motivate Firefighters, EMTs and Medics to change the…
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As we pulled out of the firehouse at 0300 hours, the dispatcher informed responding units that they were receiving numerous calls for a serious motor vehicle crash with multiple patients trapped. I relayed the information to the backseat to notify them that we would be going to work. From that point, each member begins to dig into…
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When it comes to extrication tools, everyone has their personal preferences. Having the opportunity to travel the country teaching, I have had the opportunity to use most the tools out there at one time or another. This weeks “Quick Tip” will cover my personal opinion on the controversial topic of tool sizes/weights. You will get various…
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There's no real power to having knowledge that you refuse to share with others. Regardless of your reasons, you are not smarter or empowered by what you know when it's kept in your self-centered locked mind of superior denial. Knowledge only works when you use what you know to lift others, so they can in turn lift others, and so on...
If you know it,…
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