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DOJ says the city's fire department failed to submit paperwork establishing her eligibility.

<?xml:namespace prefix = dme />The U.S. Justice Department has denied a $295,194 benefit to the children of Racheal Wilson, the Baltimore fire cadet who died in a widely criticized training exercise in 2007, saying that the city's Fire Department failed to submit paperwork establishing her eligibility for the funds."The department and the city not only failed Racheal when she was alive, but they've failed her when she was dead," said Bob Sledgeski, the head of the firefighter's...

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Larry Manasco

Larry Manasco
Company Level Training - Rescuing a Downed Firefighter - Part 2
You must train your crew to a level that each and every one of them is capable of making high quality decisions under extreme stress.

Burton Clark

Burton Clark
500 Maydays Called in Rookie School
For the first time, Mayday Doctrine was incorporated in a Firefighter I course. The mayday training addressed the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning at the mastery level of performance.

August Vernon

August Vernon
Mass Fatality Response for Fire/EMS
Public safety agencies can effectively manage one or two fatalities and do so on a regular basis whether they are from traffic accidents, fires or homicides. But what happens when you are faced with numerous fatalities.

Timothy Sendelbach

Timothy Sendelbach
10 Step Action Plan For A Safer More Effective Interior Fire Attack - Part 2
As it pertains to hoseline selection, the choice of the conventional 1.75-inch cross lay--usually made because of its easy deployment--can and has led to tragedy on the fireground.

John Keenan

John Keenan
Tools For Your Firefighting Tool Box: Commercial Building Fires
I'm writing this article with a heavy heart. Once again the FDNY lost another brother fighting a fire in a commercial building.

Nathan Trauernicht

Nathan Trauernicht
Community Safety Programs
There are countless programs available to educators to make the important connection between the classroom concept and the real-world practicality of keeping our children safe.

Robert Dube

Robert Dube
Collapse Rescue 101: Logistics
Operating on a collapse building incident requires planning and logistical support well above the normal fire call.
 

Recent Podcasts

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 11:32

This month on Fire Marshal's Corner host Ed Comeau looks at the landmark Vision 20/20 efforts.

Ed talks with project manager Jim Crawford, fire marshal for Vancouver, WA. Jim has been the driving force behind the project from its genesis in 2006 when he brought together an informal group of noted national experts in Florida. From this beginning, Vision 20/20 has grown to the point where it is an important part of helping to develop a national strategic agenda for fire and loss prevention.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 08:13

Captain Russell Merrick moderates a roundtable that looks at the changing roles of engine companies based on new construction, vacant structures and the decrease in staffing.

Panelists include:

  • Deputy Chief (retired) Robert "Butch" Cobb, Jersey City, NJ
  • Firefighter Ryan Pennington, Charleston, WV
  • Battalion Chief Al Mullins, Fairfax County, VA

 

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Upcoming TrainingLive Webcasts

Webcast presenter

Jeffrey Pindelski

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 03:00

Rapid intervention and firefighter survival skills are often considered advanced, but do you have a firm grasp on the basic skills of firefighter removal? This webcast, based on case studies and proven statistics, will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied to basic, everyday fireground survival.

Webcast presenter

Ronald E. Moore

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 02:00

With increasing frequency, fire departments are reporting an inability to cut through common structural areas, such as the B-pillars, roof pillars and rocker channels on a wide array of late-model vehicles. This webcast will equip responders with many of the lessons learned by the University of Extrication's Ronald E. Moore after a year of intense hands-on research.

 

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