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Residential Search: Applying the Principles

Consider a number of factors before committing firefighters to search a structure's interior - among them risk vs. benefit, life occupancy, fire flow paths, and the search team's size and experience. MIKE MASON       
Firefighter TrainingSearch Operations
P2 ~ Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

P2 ~ Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

Part 2 of Mike Mason's take on firefighting tactics and strategy.
FirefightingMagazine
P3 ~ Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

P3 ~ Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

Understanding building construction, size-up, interior visibility, and fire location is key to knowing what may be happening in your tactical area. Mike Mason
FirefightingMagazineStructural Firefighting
Mike Mason Center of Gravity firefighting tactics

Changing Our Center of Gravity

Understanding building construction, size-up, interior visibility, and fire location is key to knowing what may be happening in your tactical area, says Mike Mason.
FirefightingMagazineStructural Firefighting

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Mike Mason: Surviving the Battleground in Structural Firefighting

Mike Mason: Surviving the Battleground in Structural Firefighting

Mike Mason discuses the decision-making process and actions at structural fires.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting
Structural Firefighting – Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

Structural Firefighting – Strategy and Tactics: Changing Our Center of Gravity

Understanding building construction, size-up, interior visibility, and fire location is key to knowing what may be happening in your tactical area. Mike Mason
FirefightingMagazineStructural Firefighting
RIT Communications, Activities, and Deployments at Structural Fires

RIT Communications, Activities, and Deployments at Structural Fires

In this course, students will review the NFPA Standard on Rapid Intervention Crews (RIC), discover recommendations for proactive RIC behaviors and philosophies, and determine variables to improve function and understanding of rapid intervention operations.
Fire PreventionFire Safety
Rope-Assisted Search Procedures in Large-Area Structures

Rope-Assisted Search Procedures in Large-Area Structures

Searching a large area when there is an urgency to save lives is a huge undertaking. Presented are simple, but concrete, techniques that can help you turn a huge task into a successful and safe accomplishment.
Firefighter TrainingSearch Operations
Structural Firefighting: Rapid Intervention and NFPA 1407

Structural Firefighting: Rapid Intervention and NFPA 1407

By now, departments throughout the United States should be familiar with the need for rapid intervention and the extreme importance of its presence on the fireground.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting
Surviving the Fireground

Surviving the Fireground

Firefighters are faced with an ever-changing and dynamic fireground at structural fires.
Firefighting
RIT Communications, Activities, and Deployments at Structural Fires

RIT Communications, Activities, and Deployments at Structural Fires

In the dynamic world of fire-ground operations involving aggressive firefighting concentrated in offensive procedures, rapid intervention crews (RICs) and their operations sometimes need understanding, revisions, and additional considerations.
FirefightingStructural Firefighting
What Should We Be Seeing and Doing?

What Should We Be Seeing and Doing?

It has been a good 10 years since rapid intervention first gained its foothold in the fire service.
Firefighting