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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.

Frank Brannigan

Frank Brannigan
Know Your Enemy #47
We continue with our pictorial discussion of trusses which started with Know Your Enemny #44. Brannigan takes us through his private image library

Christopher Naum

Christopher Naum
Technical Rescue – Part IV
The typical demands associated with the response to a site-specific collapse rescue incident or a region-wide disaster with collapse considerations can quickly overwhelm even the largest of emergency service agencies.
 

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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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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.

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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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