"Being prepared to draft isn’t as simple as carrying basic suction hose and a barrel strainer on your apparatus."
There are times when hydrants aren’t available or can’t provide enough water at an incident. Greg Jakubowski looks at strategies for drafting water from alternate sources and locations.
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  • Jeffrey Flaker This should be a mandatory skill and always a thought for command.......A pond/lake or a decently flowing stream, can be a good primary water source for an engine.  

    We had a mill fire about 20+ years ago. As the municipal water system started to bec
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  • Dan Andorfer Drafting is a great way to learn pump opes
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The concert fire in Taiwan had almost 500 patients.
How are your triage and MCI skills?
Do we correctly categorize patients or are there limitations to how we triage?
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  • Chris Palladino what Ambulance is that?
  • Justin Schorr There are 4 categories. Red, Green, Black and greens who can't walk (yellow). That makes it far simpler for my folks.
U.S. Forest Service fire fighters from Leavenworth cut brush near houses in northern Wenatchee, Washington
Strong winds, high temps cause a firestorm in Wenatchee.
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  • Susan Easterwood Please God, be with all my brothers and sisters,that's fighting all fires !!!!!
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  • Jewel Joyce God place your angels around the firefighters and protect them from harm. Amen
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"You should make it a habit to don a PFD so that when someone steps where they shouldn’t and/or attempts to help transfer a victim from the water to the shore, they’re wearing the proper flotation device." Andy Speier on proper water rescue PPE and skills
Fire/rescue personnel must be ready for the worst-case scenario when they arrive at the scene of a fire or rescue incident. Andy Speier discusses the importance of being fully prepared when responding...
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From FFN member Buffalo and Erie County Fire Wire, a recent training in Cheektowaga, New York
** Cheektowaga NY ** Bellevue FD hosted a Tech Rescue drill tonight along Cayuga Creek. Companies practiced on Search/Rescue & Injured Hiker down in cr…
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  • Loring Child Limited PFD's usage, structural gear and water kills rescuers, Argo instructions state not to be used in moving water and tech rescue should have a rescue tech with a victim secured to a stokes basket on a lift. Safety should be the first thing we teach.
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  • Charlie D. Tollison Sad that they would post rescuers in the water with fire gear on and no PFD's. Safety needs to be looked at hard by the department
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Nearly 200 firefighters battled the blaze,
Two hospitalized during El Sereno fire.
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"Homeowner Aaron Rice said his wife and two sons were upstairs when the plane hit, while he was on the ground floor."
Small plane loses power and crashes into a Plainville house.
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A big welcome aboard to one of our newest blogs, Chicago Fire Wire - Chicagofirewire.com. Many more coming soon!
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Melissa Roming, Cromwell Fire Department, Connecticut
Firefighter/EMT/Paramedic/Training Officer and member of the Connecticut Statewide Honor Guard
Melissa’s a member of FFN – Are you? Join the Nation today, http://my.firefighternation.com/profiles/members/
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"Rapid assessment of the burn severity, airway management, preventing hypothermia and fluid resuscitation are key goals for EMS providers treating and transporting burn patients." EMS training from our brothers and sisters at JEMS.
Learn how to identify, assess and manage the different types of burns.
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  • Kenneth Putnam As a Burn Survivor (1997) I have study the burn patient (SOAR Certified). I read this article and there are good things in it. But the one thing that I see missing is, what you see at first is Not what the Burn area will look like in 1 to 2 or 3 days ...See More
Video shows colored powder being sprayed and then turning into flames.
Three tons of starch-based powder caught fire when sprayed from stage.
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  • William Frantz three tons ,,, of corn starch if theyhave read the MSDS of "Corn starch" that in moderate quantities it can be set off with a spark or ignition source
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  • William Frantz here is the risk factor from corn starch MSDS Sheet ...Unusual Fire and Explosion Hazards: At high concentrations,
    starch dust is explosive. The minimum explosive concentration is ca. 40 gm/m3 (0.04 oz/ft3). There is no defined maximum explosive concentration. The minimum electrical energy required to initiate an explosion is ca. 40 millijoules.
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Join us from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CDT as we look at how fighting fires exposes the human body to myriad environmental and pathophysiological hazards, increasing the risk of occupational-related mortality and morbidity.
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P.J. Norwood, Frank Ricci, and Jimmy Greene discuss the LODD fire that occurred on March 4, 2002, the lessons learned tactically, and the psychological impact of those firefighters left behind. Join us LIVE at 1:00 p.m. EST and on Twitter with ‪#‎FEtalk‬
Join the panel as they discuss a 2002 LODD from North Carolina.
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Join us from 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. CDT and again from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CDT as MSA Fire sponsors a live video feed of this burn scenario conducted by Illinois Fire Service Institute in partnership with UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute and NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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About 500 personnel were expected to be on the fire lines about 20 miles west of the Nevada border,
Approximately 500 firefighters are fighting the Sierra Front Fire.
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Join Bobby Halton LIVE, Wednesday, June 24th at 8am CDT and again at 4:30pm CDT for "Cardiovascular and Carcinogenic Hazards of Modern Firefighting".
MSA Fire is sponsoring a live video feed of this burn scenario conducted by Illinois Fire Service Institute in partnership with UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute and NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Ask questions for Bobby and crew on Twitter using ‪#‎FEtalk‬ and watch them answered LIVE during the event.
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