March 2017 Fire Notes

Things Aren't Always as they Appear.Sound The Floor!

Calling The MaydayReview Mayday Parameters and Call the Mayday Every Time you

Check your SCBA.

■ Hang tools that aren't immediately being utilized on the wall to keep them at the ready for use during overhaul operations.

■ Keeping tools off the floor prevents them from becoming buried by debris and allows for easy access when needed.

Halligan Hand Placement

We Don't Write Shit Off.

We Search. We Aren't Sorry.

Do Your Job.

Using the Flathead Axe as a Chisel

■ Simply place the axe blade behind the metal arm of the window bar and directly onto the lag bolt, with a second striking tool drive the axe in and shear the bolt.

Do You Have Stress or Passion?

Pompier Ladder■ Pompier in French means firefighter,

that is where the birth of the Pompier ladder happened.

■ The Pompier ladder is a simple ladder that was in service for 50 years before a St. Louis firefighter named LT. Christ Hoell introduced it to firefighters in the U.S.

■ The Pompier ladder is still an effective tool in France and is to this day used in Boston's fire academy.

Don't Waste Time Counting

Floors.

Get Inside and Find Out the Fire Location

How Do You Know This Guy Is Trapped?

■ YOU DON’T UNTIL YOU SEARCH!

■ Opportunity Doesn't Present Itself to the Timid.

■ "Search Early Save Early"

Consideration of Critical Factors Begins the Moment the Run Drops

How do you React?

What Else Catches your

Ear at Dispatch?

■ Pre-Arrival Critical Factors■ Companies Not Usually on the

Dispatch Card■ Companies Responding

out-of-position■ Dispatched “Across From” or

“Next To”■ Basement Fires■ People Trapped■ Multiple Calls

Vacant Buildings may be Empty but They're Surely Full of Hazards

■ 2 Ways to Successfully Manage a Vacant Building Fire…

■ FIND THEM BEFORE THE FIRE!

■ Culture of Rapid Search & Extinguishment Saves Time & Lives.

What Starts Wrong Stays Wrong. What Starts Right can go Wrong.

Don't Fall Victim to the Search Train

■ Staying in Contact Doesn't mean Staying in Physical Contact.

■ Communicate and Fan Out.

Put in the WORK, there are NO Short-Cuts!

■ Leadership Training is Critical in Officer Development BUT NOT in Lieu of OPERATIONAL PROFICIENCY. Both are Important.

So Many Good Ideas That Deals With Everything But Reality.

You Don't Have to be the Lieutenant, Captain, or Chief to be a Leader

Honestly, Most Leaders are out of those

Positions Anyways....you NEVER know who's Watching,

so DO YOUR JOB!

Anytime the Rig Leaves the House at Least 1 Person on it

Should Learn Something New

Before it Returns.

If Not,change Something.

Your Ladder is a Tool NOT a Showpiece ■ Designed so that the Top

Fly Section can be used to Clear Windows.

■ Training and Practice Play a role.

■ Do you know the capabilities and limitations of your rig?

■ Is your rig designed with the job in mind?

No Roof? No Problem!

■ Older type 3 Roofs Present a Variety of Hazards such as Cornices, Parapets, Scuttles, Skylights, Multiple Wires, and Pipes Sticking Out of the Roof Line.

■ It is also Important to be aware of the Interior Ventilation Shaft between Units that may Lead to Access and Operational Issues.

■ In the Center of this older OMD the Building has an Area between the Units that Creates a Vertical Channel that may only be Accessed Through the Basement.

■ Rescue Operations in the Channel may be Limited to Only using a Roof Rope Evolution.

Don't Trade the Basics for Tricks and Gimmicks

■ One Gives you a Warm Fuzzy Feeling, the Other Leads you to Higher Performance.

When you've Checked Out,

Get Out. Leadership is

NOT Complicated,

Just Sometimes Difficult.

1866 = Flow Track