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Thu Hong Nguyen has pleaded not guilty to six charges related to the deaths of two Kansas City firefighters.
Jim Crawford presents more on evaluating your community risk reduction program, http://www.firefighternation.com/…/fire-pre…/crr-measurement
Join us today at 1:00 p.m. EST as TenCate Fabrics brings us this discussion on the roles of the safety committee. Join P.J. Norwood, Frank Ricci, and their guest, Ernie St. Amant the roles, responsibilities and potential players that must be involved to have a comprehensive program
Videos from the scene in downtown New Orleans, on Canal Street, where firefighters are battling a six-alarm fire.
An hour was hardly enough in this morning's discussion with TenCate Fabrics about PPE. If you missed it, you can see it again here http://www.firefighternation.com/ and catch the various points about risk, gear limits, fabrics, cancer prevention and more.
"It is widely accepted in industry that it takes 10,000 hours to gain expertise in a particular practice or trade. In many urban environments, it takes that long just to get a handle on the types and layouts of most of the buildings in your area. It takes a great deal of time to learn your members’ strengths and weaknesses. For any benefit a department might gain from constant rotation of personnel, there is a darker, more costly downside. There is no ownership, and there is no expertise." Batt. Chief David Rhodes
Joe Pronesti shares a few command lessons learned from a fatal house fire in the hopes that you won't become "lost".
The deaths included car accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning and heart attacks while shoveling snow.
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