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....
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleShock, 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...
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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...
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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...
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First Due Friday; How Do You RIC?
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?
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CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT! “Street Smart” Forcible Entry
Safe Firefighter, LLC is proud to announce that we’ll be back at Irmo Fire District (Columbia, SC) offering 3 DAYS of OPEN ENROLLMENT forcible entry training OCTOBER 23, 24 & 25. 3 training days...
View ArticleThe Fireground is Like Loading a Dishwasher
I suppose I am fortunate that one of the only ongoing debates between my wife and I are the nuances of loading the dishwasher. You see, I load the dishwasher the way it was designed to be loaded. My...
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A New Years Resolution Mad Lib “On Firefighting”
“[A] FIREFIGHTER who is uncertain whether he can SAVE someone, or [a] FIREFIGHTER who for religious or moral reasons knows he will not ENTER A BURNING BUILDING, should not be in a FIRE TRUCK and, for...
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CLASSES! “Truck Work 101″
16 HOURS OF HANDS-ON LIFE SAVINGS SKILLS!!! Smoke & heat KILL people, including firefighters. The only way TRAPPED people live, is if we RESCUE them. The only way we live is by CONTROLLING and...
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CLASSES!!! Come Break Stuff With Us!
Safe Firefighter, LLC is proud offer “STREET SMART” FORCIBLE ENTRY 1 (Conventional “Irons” Entry and Thru-the-Lock) . This OPEN ENROLLMENT class will be graciously hosted by the Batesburg-Leesville...
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Take Your Search Skills to the Next Level!
Primary search can present numerous challenges for those faced with completing one of the most important fireground tasks. Rapidly deteriorating conditions, building layout, short staffing all are...
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“Street Smart Forcible Entry” 1 & 2
Enjoy the most fun, realistic and intense forcible training in the region! Safe Firefighter, LLC is proud offer “STREET SMART” FORCIBLE ENTRY 1 & 2 . This OPEN ENROLLMENT class will be...
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Real World Forcible Entry Problems
At SAFE Firefighter, LLC, our philosophy on forcible entry is based on three basic ideas 1) keep it simple 2) match the technique to the problem (good size-up) and 3) trust the technique. While...
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Back by Demand…MORE Forcible Entry Training!
After our last Forcible Entry 1 & 2 day, the first question we were asked was “WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE? Well, here it is… Enjoy the most fun, realistic and intense forcible training in the region!...
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**CLASS DATE CHANGE** Forcible Entry 1 & 2 in Bluffton, SC
DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, WE HAD TO CHANGE THE CLASS DATES FOR THE DECEMBER FORCIBLE 1 & 2 CLASSES IN BLUFFTON. PLEASE SEE THE CHANGED DATES BELOW… After our last Forcible Entry 1 & 2 day,...
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VEIS, The “I” Isn’t Silent
Despite many modern challenges in today’s fire service, saving lives is still our #1 priority. Modern fuel loads have changed fire behavior and survivability inside structure fires. This requires us to...
View ArticleFirst Due Friday; Heavy Smoke from a Single Family
Welcome to “First Due Friday” where we channel our (not so) inner fire buff, find a first arriving picture or video and talk about it just like at the kitchen table. Keep in mind that, unlike the...
View Article1st Due Friday; Front Row for Rescues & Truck Work
Check out this great helmet cam video from Jacksonville (FL) of a house fire with rescues. It also has a buffet of Truck Work to salivate at. ENJOY! Happy Birthday America!!! Welcome to “First Due...
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1st Due Friday; Access Problems
This is “First Due Friday” where we channel our (not so) inner fire buff, find a first arriving picture or video and talk about it just like at the kitchen table. Keep in mind that, unlike the...
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