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Throw Back to Basics: Catching a Hydrant
This week's firefighting basics training bulletin from Brian Zaitz focuses on an activity that may not always be given much thought: catching the hydrant and establishing a water supply.
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Drill: Forcible Entry—Outward Opening Doors and Limited Space
Donald L. Wedding offers this new drill that demonstrates using the “spike” of the halligan to force narrow outward opening doors (less than 30 inc...
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Throw Back to Basics: Catching a Hydrant
This week's firefighting basics training bulletin from Brian Zaitz focuses on an activity that may not always be given much thought: catching the h...
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Drills: Fire Behavior and Building Construction
In this set of firefighter training drills by Forest Reeder, he takes a look at some aspects of building construction and their impacts on fire dyn...
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Firefighter Training Drill: Extending Ladders?
There may be an instance that calls for just a few more feet out of the ladder when you have nothing left. In this firefighter training drill, Scot...
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The 12 Saw Positions Drill
Columbia (SC) Fire DepartmentBattalion Chief Nick Martin offers this new drill that focuses on building comfort and familiarity with “uncomfortable...
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Throw Back to Basics: Forcible Entry for the Lone Firefighter
This training bulletin focuses on the one-firefighter force of an inward swinging door, commonly found on the front of most single-family residenti...
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Lawsuit: Oakland Firefighter Rolled Fire Truck at Airport to Avoid Plane
A veteran Oakland firefighter rolled his fire truck at the Oakland International Airport last year because he was swerving to avoid a way...
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Throw Back to Basics: Buddy Breathing
This simple drill from Brian Zaitz will ensure that if your firefighters face a low-emergency they are trained and proficient in how to handle it.
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Firefighter Training Drill: Elevator and Stairwell Identification | ||
Drills You Won't Find in the Books: Elevator and Stairwell identification Drill
In the first of his new drill series, Raul Angulo has a firefighter training drill on stairwell and elevator identification, including instructions...
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Drill: The Company Officer
Fire Department of New York lieutenant Douglas Mitchell Jr. offers this new Traditions Training drill that discusses the importance and the respons...
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Throw Back to Basics: Ladder Locks
This firefighter training bulletin shows three alternatives to the traditional leg lock, all designed to lock you into the ladder while affording t...
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Throw Back to Basics: Forcible Entry: Inward-Swinging Door
Forcible entry is a task that can make or break a fireground. Brian Zaitz has a new training bulletin on one of our foundational skills.
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Candles Caused Smoky Mattress Fire at USC Dorm
USC students knee deep in final exams evacuated a dormitory where a mattress caught fire Sunday night
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Overcoming Panic: Stress-Induced Training and Education
You have just arrived for a fire with a report of people trapped. It's hot, and the smoke is heavy with no real drift or indication of the source.
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