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:  What would do you do for this heavily involved attached garage fire?  Does the split-level layout change your strategies/tactics?  Give us the report and your RECEO VS considerations.  Have fun!

• What is your initial report?
• Rescue considerations?
• Exposures?
• Confinement issues?
• Extinguishment strategies and tactics?
• Overhaul, what areas will you focus initial searches for extension?
• Rig placement?

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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:  Check out the video and let us know how you would handle it.  Ready…Go!

• What is your initial report?
• Offensive or Defensive?
• Search type?
• What type of attack lines would you use, how many & where would they go?
• Ventilation considerations?
• How many resources would you have/want for this fire?

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Enjoy & Be Safe!

Safe Firefighter, LLC will be teaching it’s 16-hour “Ventilation, Entry & Search (VES)  Techniques” during Southeastern Fire School at the South Carolina Fire Academy.

NOTE: In the catalog, they are calling it “Tools in your Hands: Truck Company Operations” but it’s our VES class.  Below is a class description & registration to print out…

This hands-on based class will provide participants with life saving skills needed to effectively force entry, ventilate and search fire buildings using multiple different truck company tactics and skills.  Participants will get high repetition training on critical skills using realistic props and scenarios.  These skills include: conventional forcible entry, power saw (K12) forcible entry, rope search, vent-enter-search (VES), vertical and horizontal ventilation and advanced ground ladders.  Participants can take the skills from this class home and have an immediate impact on fireground safety. 

SIGN UP HERE: SoutheasternFireSchool_Registration

GOT QUESTIONS?  Call us (843) 247-6044 or email us at info@safefirefighter.com

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:  Check out this “soupy” commercial job in PG County, MD.  Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement.  Ready…Go!

• What is your initial report?
• Rescue considerations?
• Exposures?
• Confinement issues?
• Extinguishment strategies and tactics?
• Overhaul, what areas will you focus initial searches for extension?
• Rig placement?

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:  Watch the video of this heavily involved 2-story balloon frame house.  Note the wind and the exposures.  Give us your RECEO breakdown, initial actions and initial rig placement.  Have fun…

• What is your initial report?
• Rescue considerations?
• Exposures?
• Confinement issues?
• Extinguishment strategies and tactics?
• Overhaul, what areas will you focus initial searches for extension?
• Rig placement?

As seen on YouTube and Facebook…

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NOTE:

• The Command presence
• Notice the professionalism of the operating crews
• Notice the window A/C unit falling to the street (around :40)
• Notice the Outside Vent crew stopping floor below as the Engine starts getting a knock on the fire

Go to the Facebook conversation to get full details, accounts and reactions from brothers in cyberspace as well brother who were at the fire and know the area and operations… http://www.facebook.com/NateDeMarse/posts/292471494132640

Thanks and be safe!

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’re wearing all the hats today! You’re dispatched to a reported “structure” fire.  It’s the middle of the week during Christmas vacation and the neighbors don’t know if the kids are there or not.

• What is your initial report?
• Where is the fire?
• Where is it going?
• How many lines do you anticipate for this fire?
• What size AND length line would you use?
• HOW MUCH OF A PRIORITY DO YOU PLACE ON SEARCH?
• What search tactics would you use?
• What type and where would you vent?
• What tactics are a priority?
• What are your assignments for YOUR crews?

Make training, professionalism and pride part of your New Year’s resolution!  We’re in the process of building our 2012 calendar with intense, realistic hands-on training, interactive classroom events and good old-fashioned brotherhood.  A couple of events already scheduled include:

• Ventilation, Entry & Search Techniques –  Southeastern Fire School @ SC Fire Academy – March 10, 11
• SC State Firefighters/ Fire Chiefs Conference – Myrtle Beach, SC June 4-9

• S.A.F.E. Firefighter- Smart, Aggressive, Fundamental, Efficient (Interactive Lecture, 2 Hour) – 2 in January – Dates in the Works
• First Due Forcible Entry (Hands-On, 8 Hour) – Early February – Dates in the Works
• Ventilation, Entry & Search Techniques (Hands-On, 16 Hour) – Mid February – Dates in the Works
• First Due Forcible Entry (Hands-On, 8 Hour) – March- Dates TBD
• Fireground Rescue (Advanced RIC) (Hands-On, 16 Hour) – April – Date TBD

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 the Officer on the 4 person TRUCK company who ARRIVES FIRST at this single-family house fire.  Due to other call volume, the FIRST DUE ENGINE is 5 minutes away.

• Where is the fire?
• Where is it going?
• As a TRUCK, what tactics can you perform ahead of, without, an Engine for 5 minutes?
• What tactics are a priority?
• What are your assignments to YOUR crew?

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 duty with your usual crew on your usual rig.  You arrive at this working fire in Lowe’s.  The fire is in the rear loading dock area and spreading into the store.  The manager reports at least 2 employees still inside.  They were last seen in the rear (close to but not in the area of the fire).  YOU CREW IS ASSIGNED PRIMARY SEARCH FOR THE VICTIMS.  Smoke conditions diminish as you go deeper into the building until they are almost zero visibility w/ low to moderate heat.  You encounter the typical “big box” layout (as pictured).

• What are the known hazards?
• What are the unknown hazards?
• What resources would your FD assign to accomplish the necessary strategy or tactic?
• What tactics would you use to accomplish your assignment?