Skip Coleman's Groups (14)

"Outside The Box" Engine Company Operations

166 members Latest Activity: Oct 20, 2020

Engine Company work is often viewed as easy or not as fulfilling as "Truck Company work". This is absolutely not the case and some very "high…

Searching Smarter

17 members Latest Activity: Aug 3, 2018

This group will discuss issues related to searching related to structural firefighting.

Tommy Truck

59 members Latest Activity: Jun 29, 2014 Looking for personal experiences/stories of how Tom Brennan inspired, lead, or taught you about firefighting. From Random Thoughts, to war stories of…

HazMat Placards to Success

85 members Latest Activity: Nov 28, 2017 HazMat Placards to Success will provide a step by step process for response to a Hazardous Materials incident.

Haz-Mat

116 members Latest Activity: Jul 6 For those firefighters who want to learn and share ideas about hazardous materials training and mitigation

Illinois Fire Service Institute

56 members Latest Activity: May 13, 2012 This group is for Field Staff, Institute Staff, Institute Researchers, students and other interested parties. All topics related to the Institute's…

Unique HazMat Incidents

45 members Latest Activity: Jul 6 This is where we can share pictures of scenes or pre-plans that you would consider unique for Hazardous Materials. This will be a class at FDIC 2009…

What Actually Caused the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire?

75 members Latest Activity: Feb 19, 2017 This group is for people who are interested in determining the actual cause of the fire at the Beverly Hills fire in Southgate, Kentucky on May…

Round Table Revisited

46 members Latest Activity: Jun 29, 2014 Monthly, I will disect the responses of the Monthly Round Table section of Fire Engineering. After providing some "statistical" data from the…

Firefighters Research Group

26 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2013 A place for firefighters who are looking to research a subject can have other firefighters provide research articles, standards, and references. Why…

Fire Department Accreditation

17 members Latest Activity: Nov 24, 2009 Fire Department Accreditation can do great things for a fire department, but can also change the way your department operates. Share your successes,…

Street Smart Fire Officer

217 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2018 Becoming an officer is a daunting task. Becoming a good officer on the fireground is even harder. This group will concentrate on Fireground…

FDIC

98 members Latest Activity: Jan 14, 2018 For those attending and presenting at the Fire Department Instructors Conference.

“Pride and Ownership”

505 members Latest Activity: Dec 16, 2018 What are you and your department doing to get your firefighters to take ownership? Grab a cup of coffee and let’s visit! …and don’t forget to…