Today is the day we all should Train!

Thanks Todd, I have joined the group. I look forward to learning so much from everyone. Darin

Hey Todd,

Just touching base to see if you were satisfied with the disc's . Also your photo change looks good !

STAY SAFE !! Dennis

BE a friend!

Today could be the day that a positive attitude could make a difference. Don't waste it!

Be that guy! The one who makes a difference

Thanks for adding me as a friend. I look forward to learning alot from everyone!

Thanks out there and be safe.

Will do Todd...Thanks and I'll catch you on the radio.

Ed Hadfield
www.firetowntrainingspecialist.com

Thanks Todd. I appreciate it and will visit the hazmat group.
Eddie Henderson

Take Time to Reflect

Don't forget to train on the basics

Hey Brother:

Love to chaw on some fat and sip some joe with you while discussing the facts of life as firemen. Let us brace up the foundations together.

Ben

You HAZMAT GURUS tend to have a few screws loose typically I'm a little weary of joining. just kidding bro I looked into it and joined. It is something I definatly need to know more about I hate HAZMAT it freaks me out.

I go by the rule of thumb. If i can see the scene with my thumb up in front of my face I am way too close.

Hi Todd. Thanks for the invite. I looked at the group page, and was highly impressed. I'm not a certified firefighter, nor an employee of the department, as I'm just a photographer that photographs firefighters and the work they do. (I personally think more light needs to be shed on such a career.) After reading more on the subject, I find the group very informative and important. Something I didn't think about before. I would love to learn more.

Hey brothaThanks for the invite todd. I fixed my name for ya. I work with ya again sometime.

BE a part of something special!

What did you have in mind?

Just busy traveling and other fun stuff. What are you up to? I need Volunteers Corner submissions. Know any volunteers who can write up incidents with lessons learned or programs their department has run successfully?

Todd, Thx for the invite. Any discussion on training and brotherhood I'll be there.

Check out the group and let me know what oyu think todd

Thank you Todd. Jenn

That would be great. Thanks for all your help and support.

Todd, Thanks for the heads up... Wasn't trying to dodge or duck.

...we don't have a museum here but the Texas Fire Museum is in Dallas. Maybe they do.

Be safe

Todd, Thanks for asking. She is actually making the best of it. She does have a broken neck, and fractured lower back. We were able to bring her home yesterday, cause at the moment there doesn't seem like surgery is a answer. We now have in home nurse, for her. But we are hopeful and they are saying she should have a complete recovery. She is a very tuff lady. Thanks again Jenn

thanks todd for adding me i'am from indiana

Thanks for the invite. What's shakin in Ohio?

Todd, Thanks for adding me as a friend. I noticed one of the top issues on your job is manpower, seems like thats true everywhere. What do you guys run as minimum manning in you engines and trucks?

Todd, we operate with minimum manning of 3 in engine and ladder co's. We added a squad co. about a year ago and currently have a min. of 2 in that company. We agreed to run it short just to get 2 extra members on the 1st. alarm. Our goal is to bump up to a min. of 3 in that unit also. When manpower is at full strength we do operate several 4 person companies- but as you know that isn't very often.
Stay safe,
Dave

Thanks Todd for the warm welcome

will be glad to take a look at it brother.

spencer

i am new to this site... where the heck do i find this "second hazmat group called HAZMAT TRAINING & NEWS???? help me out brother.

Hey thanks for the welcome. It's great to be a part of the discussion on the BHSC investigation, as the fire happened two years prior to me being born it is always talk about in many classes I have taken as well as throughout my department. I look forward to discussing this subject with everyone. It would be awsome to know the facts to what really happened.

G******** Todd and thanks for the welcome. I was interested in a couple of facts from your Bio. I spent the first part of my career in Knox County also, but the one in Tennessee. I started in an Explorer Post and later was the department coordinator for six posts that we sponsored that involved about 100 youth. It definately was a great experience. Be safe and I look forward to more dialogue in the future.

Thanks Todd,

I've updated my profile today, inclunding name.

Tom

Todd,
Thanks for the greeting, Art

I posted a link to the report that my station did on the efforts to re-investigate the fire on the community board. Thanks for the returned call. keep in touch!

I'm not sure I know what you are saying. Could you clear up in more detail in what you are saying. Thanks

Hey Todd,
I'm out of town right now, be back Thursday. I'll send you some info then. take care

Todd thanks for the welcome. You asked me to go to the haz-mat group, I'd really like to check it out but am having a hard time finding if you could let me know how to find it. Thanks for all your help.

Thanks I will let you know

Todd, Thanks for the greeting. I am looking forward to wandering around and getting familiar with the site.
I am an Ohio native as well, grew up in Akron, but my wife is from the Findlay area....Fostoria to be exact. Talk at ya more later. Be safe.

Todd,

Thank you for the greeting. Your right, Todd is a GREAT name ...LOL. I look forward to conversing with you and other members of the fire service.

Be Careful and remember “We ALL Go Home”

What have you done for the Fire Service? What has the Fire Service done For you?

Hi Todd, Wayne Dammert here.

I was a banquet captailn at the club from the time they opened until the night of the fire. For most of that time the Zebra Room had been a storage room. During the 4 years that I worked there from 1957 until 1961 as a card dealer the room was used as our break room. I knew the room well.

On the fatel night I was in the room for about three minutes while I waited for my friend Shirley, a waitress in charge of the room that night, to finish cutting the cake so that I could give her the bill. I looked at my watch as I was very busy and I had to get on and it showed 8:35. As a supervisor I had to be aware of everything in the club and at that time and up until that time there was absollutly nothing wrong in that room or anyplace else in the club in the many areas that I had been. There was no smoke or over heating as some people had stated. I will tell you why. As I was standing in that room just 2 feet over my head in back of me in the wall scounce there had been a device planted by 2 workers {who were not invited and were not supposed to be there]. By the way not one soul told me it was hot or smoky in there. I even talked to some of them and they said nothing about those things. That is because there was nothing wrong. At some where about 8:55 the device went off just after Shirley left the room and with the excellarent that was wiped on the walls the fire immediately engulfed the room. In just a matter of minutes the room was completly engulfed in flames and blasted through the double doors leading out of the room. Upstairs I was informed of the fire at exactly 9;00 PM and I did see smoke. In less than 5 seconds a wall of thick black smoke roarded down the hall and I had all I could do to get my 210 patrons out of there.

Now as the fire blasted out of that room it went into a very large hallway with a spiral staircase leading up to where I was. The natural thing for the fire to do was to go up that large opening. Also it could made an easy entrance into the wide open bar area on the same level but it didn't do that At that time that was all the fire should have done and I think that the firefighters who were on the scene quite quickly could have brought the fire under control. That didn't happen. The fire turned right and went DOWN some stairs and took a sharp left turn and shot like a speeding frieght train some 150 feet or so and made another sharp turn into the Cabaret room. It went down the stairs and down that hall way becasue 3 people had wiped the halls down with excellarent just like the 2 men had done in the Zebra room. That is why 165 patrons and employees lost their lives.

You can talk all you want about codes, fire escape doors, over crowding and etc. which you probably would be right but that is not why those people died. They died because some gready mobsters wanted to take over the club.

All Dave, Shirley and I want to do it to prove that the fire was no accident. That's it.

Thanks, Wayne Dammert

Hi, Todd! I guess anyone can operate one of these!

yeah i know but don't worry i fixed it

Hey Todd,
We put our guys thru a save yourself program before we started the RIT program. This included ladder bailout, low profile, long lug out, entanglement, air pak knowledge, issuing Maydays, then they had to go thru an obstacle course in which some or all of those problems would pose a threat to them and they had to issue a mayday. They got plenty of practice on the maydays. A lot of our guys said (some with over 25 years exp) that this was the best and most intense training they ever encounter. Let me know if you need some help on how to run these.
Good Luck
Sandy

Thanx Todd, I look forward to learning from u and all the people here. I am still a new instructor and need to learn all I can. Thanx again