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  • December 2015

    • December 2015

    This month feature stories include: The 5 Most Underrated Firefighter Exercises; Combi-Department Training; Post-Traumatic Stress in the Fire Service and an article on Old School & New School Technical Rescue techniques.
    Photo by Glen Ellman
    To avoid placing yourself, your organization and your city at high risk, it is important to have policies in place and to ensure that you and the members in your organization have received, read and understand them.
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    By the Book

    Gordon Graham
    Dec. 9, 2015
    Sam DiGiovanna and Gordon Graham explain the keys to crafting effective, real-world fire department policy.
    Deadlifts: The principal idea of the deadlift is very simple—pick up a barbell or dumbbells off the ground and set it or them back down.
    Safety & Health

    The 5 Most Underrated Firefighter Exercises

    Aaron Zamzow
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Aaron Zamzow explains how to strengthen the muscles that are essential to the demands of the fireground.
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    Rescue

    The Fire Scene: Operating on the Floor Above

    John J. Salka Jr.
    Dec. 1, 2015
    John Salka explain the role of the team known as the "floor above" team, which searches for life and fire.
    Jon's brother Kevin was a 10 out of 10 on the bone marrow match chart, and a transplant was done on Oct. 6, 2014.
    Safety & Health

    Close Calls: A Different Kind of Close Call

    Billy Goldfeder
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Billy Goldfeder addresses a different type of Close Call, as a firefighter’s battle with leukemia offers warning about our exposure to toxins.
    Rescue

    An EMS Night Before Christmas

    Gary Ludwig
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Gary Ludwig offers a firefighter-paramedic’s twist on the famed poem.

    More content from December 2015

    Photo by Landon Jensen
    Fire personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Angeles National Forest and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's search-and-rescue team conduct USAR training in Pasadena, CA.
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    Technical Rescue: Old School & New School

    Bob Duemmel
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Bob Duemmel covers different techniques in rope rescue training.
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    Combi-Department Training

    Jeremey Criner
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Jeremey Criner addresses how to implement a successful training program for combination departments.
    Photos by Ron Moore
    The hollow area inside both A-pillars of a 2003–2011 Volkswagen New Beetle convertible conceals the thick-walled ultra-high-strength gun barrel pipe constructed of Boron steel. Older power rescue tool cutters were not designed to confront vehicles with this strong of a piece of steel inside the pillars.
    Vehicle Extrication

    University of Extrication: The “Gun Barrel” Boron Pipe—Part 1

    Ron Moore
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Ron Moore explains why rare tough steel may be beyond your cutting capabilities.
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    Post-Traumatic Stress in the Fire Service

    Pat Morrison
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Understanding PTSD—and how the IAFF can help
    Photo by Chris Mickal
    New Orleans, LA, Aug. 31, 2015
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    Hot Shots 12/15

    Firehouse Staff
    Dec. 1, 2015
    New Orleans firefighters respond to a four-alarm fire in a three-story nightclub.
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    Thermal Imaging: A Gift for the New Year

    Carl Nix
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Thermal imagers are the gifts that keep giving
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    Careers & Education

    Chief Concerns: Response to Washington Post Op-Ed

    Marc S. Bashoor
    Dec. 1, 2015
    To argue that a decrease in fire numbers should correlate with a decrease in career firefighters is ludicrous
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    NFFF New Goals: The Fit Firefighter…From Fiction to Reality

    Ronald Siarnicki
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Hollywood’s version of firefighters is not quite accurate
    Firehouse has named fire service veteran Timothy E. Sendelbach editor-in-chief.
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    As Firehouse Sees It: Sworn to Protect

    Timothy E. Sendelbach
    Dec. 1, 2015
    Does a focus on firefighter safety jeopardize our oath?
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    Careers & Education

    Fire Politics: We Need Deeds, Not Words

    Kevin O’Connor
    Nov. 25, 2015
    Washington must pass the Zadroga Re-Authorization Act now!