FE Volume 168 Issue 4
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High-Rise Firefighting: Reassessing Our Methods
Most cities' high-rise standard operating procedures/guidelines (SOPs/SOGs) were written decades ago when these buildings were much different than they are today and the understanding of the involved firefighting dynamics was limited.
Shift Day: a 24-Hour Extended Training Day
April 24, 2012, started out just like any other shift. We prepared our gear, checked off our trucks, and contemplated what the day would have in store for us.
Knowledge and Experience: Becoming the Senior Firefighter
Every day on fire apparatus across this country, senior firefighters are relied on for decision making during incidents. As company officers, apparatus operators, and firefighters, we depend on that experience and decision making to keep us safe.
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On-the-Job Training
With AN influx of probationary firefighters on the job, remember that these "probies" might not have all the knowledge we think they do about some common tasks.
Products
FLIR's K55 incorporates the company's Flexible Scene Enhancement technology, which produces ultra-crisp thermal imagery. It is also equipped with on-board video recording, image storage (up…
Company/Association News
On Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, the FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (FASNY) will team with several New York State fire associations for the fifth annual RecruitNY statewide volunteer firefighter recruitment effort. RecruitNY is a major initiative designed to help increase volunteer membership in local fire departments.
Apparatus Deliveries
The City of Passaic (NJ) Fire Department designed this PIERCE pumper for general firefighting and medical responses, says Chief Patrick Trentacost Jr.
“Walking” for Safety in Fire Structures
In the academy, we learn early that we will spend little time on our feet inside the fire, that to improve visibility, stay out of heat, and so on, we need to get low, stay low, and move low. But with this important, almost obvious, concept often comes one of our first bad habits: moving on our hands and knees.
Reciprocal Rescue
Last month, we used an old-time unusual acronym POSDCORB (Planning/Organizing/ Staffing/Directing/COordinating/Reporting/Budgeting) to describe many of the regular management functions a boss must do to support the day-to-day operation of the organization.
Coordinated ventilation has a role
This is in reference to "Controlling the Openings: Is This the Future of Ventilation?" by Sean Gray (Fire Engineering, October 2014) and, in general, to certain fire departments' application of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire studies.
news in brief
A study conducted by Jeffrey Saver, M.D., director of the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center, and his colleagues sought to determine if having paramedics administer stroke therapies as soon as stroke is suspected would shorten the time between stroke onset and treatment.