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"Outside The Box" Engine Company Operations

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 speed" Engine Companies go to work everyday in very tough and arduous environments. They are only successful by relying on their relentless training, personal experiences and hunger to progress in the engine world.This group is geared toward Engine Company tactics that use "outside the box" thinking to accomplish. Its purpose is to exchange information…See More
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"Outside The Box" Engine Company Operations

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 speed" Engine Companies go to work everyday in very tough and arduous environments. They are only successful by relying on their relentless training, personal experiences and hunger to progress in the engine world.This group is geared toward Engine Company tactics that use "outside the box" thinking to accomplish. Its purpose is to exchange information…See More
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"Outside The Box" Engine Company Operations

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 speed" Engine Companies go to work everyday in very tough and arduous environments. They are only successful by relying on their relentless training, personal experiences and hunger to progress in the engine world.This group is geared toward Engine Company tactics that use "outside the box" thinking to accomplish. Its purpose is to exchange information…See More
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"Outside The Box" Engine Company Operations

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 speed" Engine Companies go to work everyday in very tough and arduous environments. They are only successful by relying on their relentless training, personal experiences and hunger to progress in the engine world.This group is geared toward Engine Company tactics that use "outside the box" thinking to accomplish. Its purpose is to exchange information…See More
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Profile Information

Lives in:
Landover, Maryland
Department:
Kentland Volunteer Fire Department, Company 33
Title/rank:
Chief of Department
Years of public service:
18
Agency structure:
Combination fire department
Top issues in your department:
The Kentland Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is one of, if not the busiest 100% Volunteer fire department in the United States of America. This style of staffing regiment has been in-place since 1995, due to budgetary cuts within County Government. In the past 18-years, this busy company has not failed to respond nor go out the door understaffed. Responding to over 6000 runs per-year. To include approximately 100 working structural fires and 70 vehicular accidents with entrapment.

Some of the top issues faced by my membership and I are staffing (recruitment/retention), continued positive morale, training and of course funding.
Professional Qualifications:
Fire Officer IV
NREMT-B
Fire Service Instructor
Misc. Other Certifications
Topics you provide training for:
- Thinking "Outside The Box"
- Combat Ready Firefighting
- Leadership/Officer Development
- Morale/In-house Development
- Incident Command
- Engine Company Operations (Advanced)
- Truck Company Operations
- Building Construction
- Volunteer Fire Service Recruitment/Retention/Mgmt.
Areas of expertise:
Street smart, outside the box, combat ready firefighting... Ridding the fire service of complacency... Keeping good traditions alive!
Bio:
Tony Kelleher has been in the fire service for 18 years. He is currently the Chief of the Kentland Volunteer Fire Department, a Division Chief in Prince George’s County, Md and a Technician (Wagon Driver) with the District of Columbia Fire Department assigned to Engine Co. 4. Previously he served as a Career Firefighter, Technician and Lieutenant in Virginia with the Loudoun County Fire-Rescue Department. With this diverse array of field experiences, he brings knowledge to students from all aspects of operations; ranging from volunteer to career and urban to rural.

From youth, his ambition was to become a fireman. In his desire to learn, he has spent most of his life gathering knowledge and experience from many great firemen. Some of his biggest lessons learned are: the street smart approach, outside the box thinking, and upholding the pride and valuable traditions within our unique culture.

For over a decade, he has worked and instructed for Traditions Training, LLC. In 2013, he presented "Combat Ready Firefighting" at FDIC Indianapolis.
Web site:
http://workingfirechief.com

Chief Anthony Kelleher's Blog

BEING THE CAUSE OF "BAD FIREFIGHTERS"

The fire service is a unique place to say the least. Right or wrong, from the moment you walk in the doors of the firehouse or training academy you are being judged. Not just because it’s the fire service, but because it’s human nature. Now, don’t get me wrong, as a new person in the fire service it is fully your responsibility to be an upstanding, motivated, dedicated and…

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Posted on July 8, 2014 at 9:54am — 2 Comments

"BOX ALARM"- Going "3rd Due" in Prince George's County, Maryland
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Posted on May 27, 2014 at 2:01pm

GETTING AHEAD OF THE GAME

Units from my department and other companies in Prince George's County, Maryland responded to this second alarm fire last week. It involved a strip of two-story, attached, ordinary constructed, garden style apartment buildings.

Companies on the initial alarm had a well advanced fire in an entire apartment unit with substantial extension to the attic space.…

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Posted on November 13, 2013 at 12:16pm

STANDPIPE ODDITY (What to do?):

Firefighter/Technician Steve Brookbank, (Air Unit No. 1, Wash. DC) sent these two photographs in. This standpipe configuration is located on the upper floors of a high rise building. 



The photograph on the left is of a 2 1/2" riser connection in the middle of a hallway corridor. You may notice that…

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Posted on September 6, 2013 at 11:00am

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