This week for FDF, we’re wondering: How does your FD staff the RIC & what, if anything, are they allowed/expected to do at a fire?
The Italian Stallion on “Getting It Done”
As budgets get tighter and fire companies get thinner, the job doesn’t change. The responsibility doesn’t change. Our duty to GET IT DONE doesn’t change. We just have be more creative, more efficient and more WILLING to make the push regardless of circumstances. But don’t take it from us, here are some words of encouragement from Rocky Balboa…
These words of wisdom were found on Facebook via Kevin Story who I believe shared it from S.E.T. FOOLS.
FTM-PTB
Thanks and Be SAFE
First Due Friday; Decisions, Decisions
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we’ll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
THE SCENARIO: You are first to arrive to find this heavily involved double wide mobile home. IS THIS A GO, NO-GO or SOMETHING ELSE? What are the ATTACK and RESCUE CONSIDERATIONS? Give us your SIZE-UP, CREW ASSIGNMENTS & RECEO VS considerations. Enjoy!
- RESCUE profile
- EXPOSURE considerations
- CONFINEMENT issues
- EXTINGUISHMENT strategies/tactics
- OVERHAUL considerations
- VENTILATION strategies/tactics
- SALVAGE considerations
- PLEASE REMEMBER… We want to critique this video, however First Due Friday is a CONSTRUCTIVE tool! Mudslinging comments WILL NOT be posted. Thanks and enjoy!
NOTE: This pic was part of a Facebook discussion courtesy of Captain Derek Church, Bluffton FD, Engine 324. Thanks Brother!
Shock, Gap, Set, Force- It Works In The “Real World” (Video)
Here is a great video that gives some “street cred” to the SHOCK, GAP, SET, FORCE process of forcing doors. A Truck 1 pulls up, they are able to force and control the door and begin the primary search as the first attack line is being stretched. Because they are able to get in and begin interior truck duties, they find the fire, communicate its location to the engine, confine it by shutting doors and begin the primary search of the house.
If you were benchmarking this fire using RECEO VS, they have already begun interior EXPOSURE control, CONFINING the fire, determining the RESCUE needs and, after the search, will assist the engine with OVERHAUL.
NOTE: This was a simple summary of the first floor action, not of the total operation.
Please comment with anything else we can learn from this video. Thanks and be safe.
First Due Friday; Going to Work in a Garden Apartment!
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we’ll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
THE SCENARIO: You are first to arrive on whatever you normally ride. Give us your SIZE-UP, CREW ASSIGNMENTS & RECEO VS considerations. HOW BIG DOES THIS INCIDENT GET IN YOUR FD… alarms, units, staffing, etc? Also, watch the fireground ops and share your constructive criticism. Enjoy!
- RESCUE profile
- EXPOSURE considerations
- CONFINEMENT issues
- EXTINGUISHMENT strategies/tactics
- OVERHAUL considerations
- VENTILATION strategies/tactics
- SALVAGE considerations
- PLEASE REMEMBER… We want to critique this video, however First Due Friday is a CONSTRUCTIVE tool! Mudslinging comments WILL NOT be posted. Thanks and enjoy!
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Leadership Chart
Some people learn by watching, some by reading others by doing, most by a combination of each. Here’s chart we found on Facebook via Tim Nemmers, Lead Instructional Designer for Suburban Fire Development. Enjoy and please share!
-Be Safe
First Due Friday; Grillin’ Season
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we’ll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
THE SCENARIO: This fire started from a grill in the backyard. Give us your SIZE-UP, CREW ASSIGNMENTS & RECEO VS considerations. Also, watch the fireground ops and share your constructive criticism. Enjoy!
- RESCUE profile
- EXPOSURE considerations
- CONFINEMENT issues
- EXTINGUISHMENT strategies/tactics
- OVERHAUL considerations
- VENTILATION strategies/tactics
- SALVAGE considerations
- PLEASE REMEMBER… We want to critique this video, however First Due Friday is a CONSTRUCTIVE tool! Mudslinging comments WILL NOT be posted. Thanks and enjoy!
First Due Friday; 2-Alarm Commercial Job! (Video)
Share your strategies, tactics and experience! Every Friday we’ll post a picture or video and want to get your take on the situation.
THE SCENARIO: You are on either the first arriving Engine or Truck (your choice). You arrive to these heavy smoke conditions in this commercial building with multiple mixed occupancies. Give us your SIZE-UP, CREW ASSIGNMENTS & RECEO VS considerations. Enjoy!
NOTE: Safe Firefighter Instructor Jason Joannides was on the the first arriving Truck, so post your comments and we’ll get the “first-hand” version at the beginning of next week.
- RESCUE profile
- EXPOSURE considerations
- CONFINEMENT issues
- EXTINGUISHMENT strategies/tactics
- OVERHAUL considerations
- VENTILATION strategies/tactics
- SALVAGE considerations
- PLEASE REMEMBER… We want to critique this video, however First Due Friday is a CONSTRUCTIVE tool! Mudslinging comments WILL NOT be posted. Thanks and enjoy!
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Forcible Entry Wrap Up!!!
June and July were crazy with Forcible Entry classes! We did a total of 5 classes in Irmo, SC, 2 in Bluffton and 2 in Belton reaching 138 brothers in the last calendar month!
First of all, thanks to all the brothers who came out for training! We truly appreciate everyone’s effort. South Carolina summer are brutal so thanks for sweating with us and working to become better firefighters. Seeing that kind of effort is what makes this job the best in the world.
Special thanks to the following people for helping all this go off:
- Irmo Fire District- thanks to Fire Chief Mike Sonefeld, Deputy Chief Greg Mundy and all the members
- Bluffton Twp. Fire District for letting host an open enrollment class at their HQ
- Belton Fire Department- thanks to Fire Chief Alan Sims, Captain Brad Maness for having us and thanks to the members for their sleep deprived effort.
- Sheridan Park Self-Storage
- Philadelphia Security Products
- TroxFire- manufacturer of the TruForce Entry System
- Desert Diamond Industries for their continued support of Safe Firefighter, LLC
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CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT! Street Smart Forcible Entry 1 & 2
GET MORE FORCIBLE ENTRY REPS IN A DAY THAN YOU HAVE IN YEARS!!!
Safe Firefighter, LLC, in conjuction with the Bluffton Twp. Fire District, will be hosting a OPEN ENROLLMENT “STREET SMART” FORCIBLE ENTRY weekend on Saturday July 7, 2012 at BTFD HQ. Details are below:
SIGN UP FOR THE MOST INTENSE HANDS-ON FORCIBLE ENTRY TRAINING AVAILABLE!!! These classes give participants high quality instruction & high repetition training under the most realistic scenarios & props available!
Inward, outward irons work, residential & commercial thru-the-lock, saws operations on security bars bolts, chain, hinges and locks. GET MORE FORCIBLE ENTRY REPS IN A DAY THAN YOU HAVE IN YEARS!!!
- Saturday July 7, 2012 from 0800 – 1700 hrs
- Bluffton Twp. Fire District HQ, 357 Fording Island Rd, Bluffton, SC 29909
- Forcible Entry 1- Conventional Irons & Thru-the-Lock
- 0800 – 1200 hrs
- $35 / person (full PPE no SCBA)
- Forcible Entry 2- Advance Irons & Saw Ops
- 1300 – 1700 hrs
- $100 / person (full PPE no SCBA)
- SIGN UP FOR BOTH: $125 / person
FLYER- “Street Smart” Forcible Entry 1 & 2 in Bluffton, SC
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