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Communications Drill with DCFD RS.3 Video
Arrival video from D.C. offers opportunity to train on sizeup report expectations. It may be boring to you, without any audio and a clear view of the action, but this video of Rescue Squad 3 arriving...
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Mayday Transmitted During Reading Apartment Fire
Calm and collect a member calls for help as crews evacuate the fire floor. Reading, PA firefighters ran a top floor worker at a four-story apartment building on 11 April, "Pennsylvania Firefighters...
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California Helmet Cams:Hayward and Contra Costa County
Why we believe this first-person view is important to the fire service. Two helmet camera videos from California highlight why we believe that with good footage and editing, these types of videos are...
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2012 Maydays
A year of communication we hate to hear, but train to say As you listen ask yourself and your crew, what should a mayday from one of us sound like? Do we know what to say? Could we understand it if we...
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Expect Fire: BostonAlarm Activation Becomes Smoke Showing
Sunday morning job on East Newton Street Fire alarm activation for 45 East Newton Street resulted with a report of fire showing on arrival from the sixth floor. An overheated fan came in contact with...
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Holding 1&1:Getting The Jump
How you prepare reflects how you will perform Those of you who have a passion for the job (career or volunteer) and have been around awhile might know of a little thing called “the jump”. The jump is...
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Expect Fire: Remembering Asheville, North Carolina and Captain Jeff Bowen
On this day a response to an AFA turned deadly Area of origin, the A B corner.(NIOSH/fire department photo) On July 28, 2011, a 37-year-old career captain died and 9 fire fighters were...
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Expect Fire: San Francisco One and One
A little more than a small outside fire (San Francisco Firefighters Local 798, Twitter @SFFFLocal798) Tuesday’s five-alarm fire in San Francisco was impressive at first reporting and more so...
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