Firefighter-Careers-Safety-Rescue-Training

Area Familiarization to Decrease Response Times

I realize that it is impossible to know every address and every street in your fire district. I also understand that departments, especially those that are small, have to move personnel around to other areas to accommodate staffing issues. With these...

Blog • February 14th, 2013

Hope & Healing at the NFFF Survivors Conference

Jamie Holmes never worried about managing her family's finances, maintaining the yard or the family's cars. The self-described "Suzie Homemaker" relied on her husband, Paul, a firefighter/paramedic in Douglas County, GA, to handle those tasks while...

Article • February 13th, 2013

Training, Who Needs it Anyway?

Have you ever witnessed the senior firefighters standing around when it is drill time? Many firefighters take the stance that they have "been there, done that" and that gives them the reason not to train with their crews. Why would this even be...

Blog • February 9th, 2013

Free Training, Valuable Lessons Come From Debriefings

How often do you spend some time talking about training evolutions and calls at their conclusion? Sometimes it's as simple as a tailboard talk or just sitting in rehab talking afterwards. This can be productive, but do people get as much out of these...

Blog • February 8th, 2013

I Have the Right to Change My Mind: Don't I?

How many times have you faced a situation where the facts told you that something you had decided to do was wrong? You used the proper decision-making skills, you gathered the necessary facts, and you made the decision in the proper way; the way you...

Blog • February 6th, 2013

Global Lessons: Bringing Fire Prevention Home

While residential fires continue to be our biggest problem in the U.S., fires in public buildings, notably assembly occupancies, while occurring less frequently cause the largest loss of life and property. Recently a fire in a Bangladesh factory...

Article • February 5th, 2013

Stopping Inspections? Insanity In Watertown

To limit or restrict firefighters from familiarizing themselves with the buildings they will be fighting fires in is insanity.

Blog • February 1st, 2013

Lessons from the Circus: 2013

One of the great joys which I have been able to experience in the many years since my retirement from the good, old, Newark Fire Department is the ability to travel when I want to and not when a vacation spot or personal day is open. Thanks to this...

Article • February 1st, 2013

Firefighter Training - Keep It Fresh

Remember when you were in school, maybe in math class and you felt the seat get so uncomfortable on your behind? Remember when the words that the teacher would say began to run together and you did not hear another word that was said. In years past...

Blog • January 18th, 2013

Firefighter Training: Never Left the Basics

How often do you hear the term "back to the basic?" One question that keeps popping up in my head is why did we leave the basics to begin with?

Article • January 30th, 2013

When We Roll Up

Cruising down the road in my favorite white pickup, up and down the big beautiful hills of West Virginia with Jumpseat ready firefighting on my mind, a popular song came on the radio. When I got home, that song sent me to my computer faster than...

Blog • January 30th, 2013

Weekly Drill: No. 103 - Ropes & Knots - Part 3

Drill #103: Ropes & Knots: Part 3 In the first two parts of this three-part series, we looked at the different materials and types of ropes. This segment looks at the different knots used today in the fire service. The drill is designed to be a...

Article • January 27th, 2013

Never Leave your Wingman

"Maverick, you never leave your wingman!" How many of us have heard these words from the movie Top Gun as the senior flight instructor told pilot Maverick after he lost a battle in the sky. If we take those words and apply them to our world, they...

Blog • January 26th, 2013

How to Keep Jumpseat Ready in 2013

As I sit in the fire station waiting for the bells to hit I often wonder what firefighters are thinking about at just that moment in time. I bet they are just like me: wondering what type of call will be next. Statistics say it will, most likely, be...

Blog • January 21st, 2013

Weekly Drill: No. 102 - Rehabilitation

Drill #102: Rehabilitation Readers will learn that rehabilitation encompasses more than just “taking five” to catch your breath. The drill is designed to be a single page of information to conjure up discussions among your crew members. Sit...

Article • January 20th, 2013

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