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Challenging Fires and and Lessons Learned

What were the major concerns at the last difficult fire you fought? How did they affect the operation? What solutions were applied? Were th…

Started by Anthony Avillo

0 May 15, 2008

2-1/2" lines

What is your department's criteria for stretching a 2-1/2" line as the 1st line? Is it by SOP, by occupancy, fire size, by the Officer's de…

Started by Anthony Avillo

14 May 14, 2008
Reply by Anthony Avillo

Initial Response

I had a discussion the other day about pre assigned duties for the initial response. I can't imagine not having this in place, however I ha…

Started by Scott Thompson

11 May 14, 2008
Reply by Brandon Wyant

Regionalization -- does it work???

Anyone out there regionalizing departments? How is it working out? NHRFR has been regionalized since 1999. I know Indy is in the process. W…

Started by Anthony Avillo

8 May 3, 2008
Reply by Anthony Avillo

Bumping

In North Hudson, we make extensive use of a technique called "bumping". This is when the first two engines get into the block before the la…

Started by Anthony Avillo

2 Apr 26, 2008
Reply by Anthony Avillo

Sprinklered warehouses

How do you handle fires in sprinklered warehouses? What size lines do you use? Who feed the FDC? How do you vent the roof in a Class 2 bldg…

Started by Anthony Avillo

0 Apr 14, 2008

department safety committee

In North Hudson, we have a Dept. Safety Committee. All ransk are represented on the committee. They meet once a month with the Chief to dis…

Started by Anthony Avillo

4 Apr 2, 2008
Reply by Art Bloomer

a cool drill

we just did a cool drill in the cellar of the one of the firehouses if anyone does anything similar or tries this one, would like to hear t…

Started by Anthony Avillo

3 Mar 23, 2008

metal window enclosures

has anyone seen these things out there? we hade a good job and they were a challenge we did some ttraing and here is what we came up with h…

Started by Anthony Avillo

2 Mar 21, 2008
Reply by Anthony Avillo

Interagency SOP's

With all the mutual aid being utilized these days, is anyone out there utilizing SOP's adopted by a mutual aid group or by numerous depts?.…

Started by Anthony Avillo

0 Mar 15, 2008

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