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    The September issue of Firehouse Magazine includes the 2021 Michael O. McNamee Awards of Valor and the 2021 Thomas Carr Community Service Awards. It also has feature articles on community risk reduction, firefighter training, countering firehouse bias, comparing rig performance versus appearance and a special section on thermal imaging.
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    Sept. 12, 2022
    Photo by Chris Soda
    For cut-less dash displacement on unibody automobiles, in which the objective is to break the weld that holds the dash bar to the A-pillar, you use the small lip that rises above the rest of the rocker channel as the landmark for the bottom spreader arm.
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    Photo by Joseph Sperber
    Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
    Sept. 12, 2022
    Photos courtesy of 555 Fitness
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    Go-to firefighters notice the smallest of details. They have learned to separate themselves within a very active and dynamic workspace.
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    For the 41st year, Firehouse shares and compares statistics about company and department levels, funding, staffing and pay for the career fire service. Part 4 looks at Pay Scales...
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    Two fire service TICs of identical brand (but different models) display the same heat source differently. This is because one model is in TI Basic mode and the other is in Search & Rescue mode, which highlights colorization beginning at 200 degrees F, instead of the TI Basic’s 302 degrees F. Also, the TIC at the top of the image is a lower resolution model than the model that’s below it (240x180 vs. 320x240).
    Andy Starnes keys on the importance of understanding one's particular TIC and of wiping the TIC's lens and five other hindrances to proper use of a thermal imaging camera.
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    The performance of a thermal imaging camera (TIC) varies depending on TIC manufacturer, model and type. Put another way, the picture that's displayed by TICs of different specifications won't produce the same image.
    Joey Baxa provides the particulars of best practices for thermal imaging camera use for size-up on the fireground.
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    John J. Salka Jr. prefers to think back on the good times that he had with all of the people with whom he served in FDNY on the anniversary of September 11 rather than how they...
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    Buildings of ordinary construction pose challenges that other building types don’t—whether based on their basics or on oddities that can emerge, such as this glass section of the floor on the second level of a downtown building in the author’s department’s jurisdiction. If fire were to communicate to this hallway and cause the glass section to break, smoke and fire could spread, and firefighters could encounter an unseen hazard.
    Timothy Cowan warns that the basic elements of buildings of ordinary construction—and the occasional oddball factors—require close familiarity with the concepts of battling fires...
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    Zachary Brown warns that complacency and giving less than 100 percent can ravage an individual firefighter, a department leader or, worse, much or all of an organization.
    Sept. 12, 2022
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    To gain a broader view of CRR, consider two primary benchmarks: incident and recovery. The first is obvious. The second likely isn’t for many, including because it involves so many factors—for example, an officer’s influence on a driver to know the streets and access points in the community.
    Joe Powers addresses the two benchmarks (incident and recovery) that are key to embrace in evolving one's approach to reducing risk in the community.
    Sept. 12, 2022
    Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
    Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur urge apparatus committees to think twice about specifying atypical paint colors and graphics.
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