ORIGINAL POST AT: http://cfbt-us.com/wordpress/?p=2000 Milestone! As I was preparing to upload this post, I realized that this is the 200th CFBT-US Blog Post since its inception in August of 2008. Quite a lot has happened since then. In 2008 there were few people in the fire … [Read more...]

Kevin O’Toole and Ethan Sorrell were trapped in a house fire on February  24th, 2012 in Prince Georges County Maryland. They were both riding Truck Company 9 of the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire Department responding to a reported house fire in the first due response area of a … [Read more...]

UL FSRI Director Steve Kerber, NIST Fire Protection Engineer Dan Madrzykowski and Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief of Training Derek Alkonis team up to present a 7 part video lecture series titled “NIST and UL Research on Fire Behavior & Fireground Tactics.”  The … [Read more...]

PASS IT ON! Last year I was asked-along with numerous other fire service family members-to contribute my advice to future and current firefighters, and fire officers. The contributions were put together in a brand new 400+ page book by Pennwell entitled "PASS IT ON...What We … [Read more...]

Softening up the target, quick water, fast water, and hitting it hard from the yard. Maybe you have heard some of these recently and maybe it has opened your eyes.  I know it did mine.  Lot of what we thought we knew over the past decade or even 2 decades ago all looks … [Read more...]

Bobby Halton talks to Eddie Buchanan and Ray McCormack about SLICERS, DICERS, fire service acronyms, and incorporating new fire science findings into firefighting tactics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrg9zRBwac&feature=share MORE EDDIE BUCHANAN Firefighting Tactics: … [Read more...]