All- It's with deep regret that we pass on that a friend to so many, Assistant Chief Jon Hansen, (Ret) Oklahoma City Fire Department has died following a tough and heroic battle with cancer. A life long Firefighter who was thrust into the international spotlight following the … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Fire Apparatus At Fault In Fatal Crash-10 Year Old Killed (The Secret List)
All, As you will recall, there was a fatal crash involving a fire department tanker in Mississippi that killed a 10-year-old boy (Higuillermo Perez Mentreo) on April 3, 2016. The Mississippi Highway Patrol is now stating that the fire apparatus driver failed to yield the … [Read more...]
Firefighter Line of Duty Death for March 2016
The United States Fire Administration has received notice of the following 6 firefighter fatalities in the month of March: Name: Peter Larlee Rank: Captain Status: Paid-on-call Date of Incident: 03/02/2016 Fire Department: East Millinocket Fire Department … [Read more...]
Dale Jenkins from Houston FD shared a great article on facebook
Gravity always wins, I have never seen a firefighter fall off of or through a roof and not have gravity win. The moment we leave the ground gravity is at work trying its best to bring us back down. When we are called to go to the roof for roof top ventilation we have two forces … [Read more...]
Reflections by Mark vonAppen
Originally published : Firenuggets Inc. This is a correspondence I had with a friend of the page from some time ago. He asked, "Are you really all-in-all-the-time?" This is what I wrote back. To read more follow the link below: Reflection by Mark … [Read more...]
The Watts Street Fire-A Triple LODD That Changed Us All (The Secret List)
All, Sadly, some LODD's are forgotten. Not in the sense that the loved ones who died in the Line of Duty are forgotten-but more in the sense of how and why they died. In this case, the loss has never been forgotten for a variety of reasons. Please take a moment to read this and … [Read more...]
Understanding Fireground Threats, Risks, and PPE
Originally published on www.fireengineering.com There have arguably been fewer collections of material more sentinel to the evolution of safer regarding firefighting and firefighter health/ wellness than the three pieces presented in this Fire-Dex-sponsored … [Read more...]
How the Swiss Air Force learns
A great Swiss Air Force video shows us all how an enlightened high risk organization should use mistakes to get better, by moving away from a blame game and towards a learning culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXE5pbLI0E … [Read more...]
Cancer & the FF; Self Study survey
Here’s a quick Firefighter Safety Self Evaluation that personnel can quickly complete to get an idea of their “real” level of safety. It’s by no means a complete safety picture but might serve as a quick eval for folks. They just have to click through the score boxes. It will … [Read more...]
Firefighter Safety Self Evaluation
Here’s a quick Firefighter Safety Self Evaluation that personnel can quickly complete to get an idea of their “real” level of safety. It’s by no means a complete safety picture but might serve as a quick eval for folks. They just have to click through the score boxes. It will … [Read more...]