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Giving Courage: LODD Chiefs Speak

2016-08-29T20:18:18.564Z

Twelve chiefs representing every type of department –metropolitan and rural, career, volunteer and wildland – share the grim realities of coping with a line-of-duty death.

Occupational Assessment Task 6: Forcible Entry

2015-07-10T14:35:11.947Z

Move a 225.5-lb tire 12-inches using a 10-lb sledgehammer. The First Twenty utilizes an occupational assessment developed by The USAF Fire Emergency Services. The assessment consists of 10 tasks meant to be completed in full turnout gear while breathing air from an SCBA. Their ten task Occupational Assessment is engineered to be a job-specific metric to assist a firefighter in understanding their own performance level against an assessment designed to simulate every movement a firefighter could make on the fire ground.

Occupational Assessment Task 5: High Volume Hose Pull

2015-07-07T19:26:38.690Z

Pull a section of 4 1⁄2- or 5-inch hose 100 feet. The First Twenty utilizes an occupational assessment developed by The USAF Fire Emergency Services. The assessment consists of 10 tasks meant to be completed in full turnout gear while breathing air from an SCBA. Their ten task Occupational Assessment is engineered to be a job-specific metric to assist a firefighter in understanding their own performance level against an assessment designed to simulate every movement a firefighter could make on the fire ground.

Firefighters recall colleagues who died from occupational cancer

2015-05-04T14:59:14.242Z

Three city firefighters painted a grim portrait as they sat in front of a wall plastered with images of their fallen comrades. These colleagues did not perish in a raging fire or after falling into a collapsing building. They all succumbed to cancer. Video: The Boston Globe HT Billy Goldfeder

Injured Dallas (TX) Firefighter Returns Home

2014-09-19T20:04:46.767Z

DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - A Dallas firefighter injured in the line of duty back in May is finally going home, after a slow and painful recovery. More at http://cbsloc.al/XQKTMc