I was training with a group of volunteer fire academy trainees at a live burn building . We had made it to the second floor and getting ready to enter the fire room. I was on the nozzle when I started to cramp from the heat. I will admit that I should have been pre-hydrating … [Read more...]

Two firefighters were injured during training when a hose line became out of control, striking one firefighter in the head. While operating at a hose line operation drill, one hose team lost control of their 1 3/4" hose line, sending it out of control. A near-by hose team … [Read more...]

A 52 year old F-282 (Puget Sound Federal Fire Fighters) firefighter from Station 61 (U.S.N. Sub-Base Bangor) suffered a cardiac arrest while conducting training with Station 77 (Poulsbo, WA) personnel on Friday afternoon (3/6). The firefighter dropped right in front of a … [Read more...]

Training on forward lays with five inch hose: hose clamp was placed on the five inch line, the hydrant was charged, the line broken and connected to the inlet on the pumper. As the Hebert Hose Clamp was opened, the clamp was rapidly pushed along the five inch hose until it hit … [Read more...]

While drilling on master stream operations at my career station, we had a very close call recently. I was on the pump panel while my lieutenant and two other firefighters were setting up and operating a portable monitor. While drilling to achieve various GPM flows by removing the … [Read more...]

While drilling on master stream operations at my career station, we had a very close call recently. I was on the pump panel while my lieutenant and two other firefighters were setting up and operating a portable monitor. While drilling to achieve various GPM flows by removing the … [Read more...]

A recent event has made a few of us aware that refreshing our knowledge about electricity is a good thing. While working on a live-fire house burn preparation, I was confronted with the main panel in the basement that was in the way, making it difficult to put up a ceiling … [Read more...]

I run with a volunteer fire company, on our training night we went to the training tower for our community. During our final evolution I was the pump operator and the guy who had been pumping moved to an interior position. While I was pumping over the radio came "We have a Man … [Read more...]

Aircraft Rescue FireFighting training class the College of Technology reflash simulation did not work properly after new improvements. It was after million dollar upgrade. What happened was we were doing intital attack on aircraft when we got fire knocked down we were working our … [Read more...]