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Posted By: Patrick O'Brien
Wed Jan 25th, 2023
Pre-incident plans or pre-fire plans are most often associated with structures or other man made sites. However, some target hazards that involve deployment of technical rescue assets, involve topography challenges, or are considered wide area search operations that might garner special attention wi
Posted By: Leigh Hubbard
Wed Jan 25th, 2023
At 1107 Nashville Avenue in Sheffield, Alabama sits a modest abode. It was home to my grandparents, my father and his two sisters for more than 50-years. Not only did is serve as the gathering place for our fifteen family members to celebrate during the holidays, but it was a summer retreat for me,
Posted By: Itote Waruhiu, Chief Fire Officer
Wed Jan 25th, 2023
1. Tell us about yourself and why you decided to join the fire service
I am a Kenyan born in Nairobi (capital city of Kenya). I have been in the emergency services since 1996 starting out as a volunteer First Aider with St. John Ambulance Brigade. I qualified as a First Aid Trainer in June 1998 and
Posted By: Anthony Avillo, MS
Wed Dec 28th, 2022
Here is a good example of exposure protection. The Rule of 15 certainly applies here, at least from the distance point of view. In many older cities, it is rare to have a fire without an exposure problem. In North Hudson, the Rule always applies…usually to several of the exposures. Here, whatever wa
Posted By: Seth Barker
Wed Dec 28th, 2022
Connection
I think a lot of fire service instructors depend on the connection they create with the student to determine successes or failures with their delivery. Being connected as a class can produce outcomes that exceed all expectations of what the group might have originally thought. I recently