Ray McCormack explains how the typical legal and law enforcement phrases "A Rush to Judgment" and "A Person of Interest" can apply to firefighting tactics.
Firefighters live with the challenge of hose couplings every day, but we should take comfort in knowing that they are a silent sentinel leading the way, Ray McCormack writes.
Tactical safety is achieved by putting forth maximum effort and by having highly tuned-in firefighters and commanders who deploy their troops with purpose on the fireground, Ray McCormack writes.
Many times training is only done verbally, which is fine for some topics. But with power tools, you need to actually use them. Talking about how they work and how you should use them only goes so far.
One of the major fireground functions of a truck company is to ventilate the fire building. Window ventilation, also referred to as horizontal ventilation, provides generally the largest and most direct ventilation of the fire area. At structural fires, vertical ventilation--opening skylights, bulkheads, and scuttles--should be undertaken before horizontal ventilation.