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  • October 2022

    • October 2022

    The October issue of Firehouse Magazine includes feature articles on why TPP and THL are important in PPE, new technology in chainsaws and circular saws, creating a health & wellness program for your department, electric apparatus, and Pit Crew CPR.
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    PPE

    PPE: Why TPP and THL Are Important

    Jim Reidy
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Jim Reidy demystifies turnout gear thermal protective performance and total heat loss.
    Patrick Dooley
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    Operations & Training

    Hot Shots 10/22

    Firehouse Staff
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Hot Shots includes a Manchester, CT, Fire Rescue using defensive operations due to heavy fire conditions. The second floor on the B/C side collapsed.
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    Safety & Health

    Scuttlebutt 10/22

    Firehouse Staff
    Oct. 17, 2022
    National Fire and Emergency Services Symposium Date Set
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    Community Risk Reduction

    As Firehouse Sees It: Fire Prevention Week Celebrates 100 Years!

    Peter Matthews
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Peter Matthews echoes many when he urges officers and members to extend their outreach to the community beyond one week per year.
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    Careers & Education

    For the Record 10/22

    Firehouse Staff
    Oct. 17, 2022
    EVT of the Year Nominations

    More content from October 2022

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    Careers & Education

    2021 Volunteer Fire Department Run Survey

    Oct. 17, 2022
    Firehouse proudly presents its 34th annual Volunteer Fire Department Run Survey.
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    EMS

    EMS: Lights and Sirens: “We Always Did It this Way”

    Kristen Wade
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Kristen Wade lays out why the use of lights and sirens isn't so cut and dried.
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    Safety & Health

    Close Calls: Is My Life Worth It?

    Billy Goldfeder
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Billy Goldfeder's connection with a member of the Toledo, OH, Fire & Rescue Department brings to light the raw details of a firefighter's contemplation of bringing about his own...
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    Health & Fitness

    Health & Wellness: Dietary Approaches to Reduce Inflammation

    Dana Harrison
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Dana Harrison provides actionable measures for firefighters to reduce or resolve inflammation, which can be at the root of numerous health problems.
    Photos by Michael Daley
    There is a considerable need to revisit fire department operations as they relate to scientific facts and data that came to light in the past 10–15 years.
    Operations & Training

    Fire Studies: The Rules of Engagement Are Changing

    Michael Daley
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Michael Daley provides the manners by which insight that evolves fireground tactics can be collected.
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    Target hazard areas for trench collapse include construction sites and utility work near roadways. There are plenty of significant issues here: lack of shoring, personnel in the unshored trench, overhead loads being lowered with personnel in the trench and an open roadway that’s a short distance away from the trench.
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    Technical Rescue: Trench Collapse: On Arrival

    Michael Daley
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Michael Daley provides the definitive explanation for the work that's required of rescuers at the site of a trench collapse before they enter the trench.
    Being open to change—embracing resilient and flexible design—must be included in a decision as to whether to renovate or build new. Key aspects of the Des Moines, IA, Fire Department’s logistics and training center, including the apparatus and maintenance bays and training spaces, were designed to be easily altered for future growth and augmentation.
    Stations

    Renovate or Design New: Bridging the Gap Between Design and Function

    David Arends
    Oct. 17, 2022
    David Arends stresses the importance of listening, learning and building trust for the team that will be involved in the decision as to whether a station is renovated or replaced...
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    Pit Crew CPR assigns a specific role to members, as each of nine “positions” enter a scene. The premise is to have organized and rapid response to cardiac arrest incidents.
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    Pit Crew CPR: On Track to Saving More Lives

    Philip Keating
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Philip Keating and Chris Kovatch provide a road map for how most any department can implement an evolved approach to cardiac arrest response.
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    Leadership

    Leadership Lessons: What I Learned in 151 Days as an Assistant Chief

    Dr. David Griffin
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Dr. David Griffin shares his experience from his early days after a promotion to an administrative role, including the importance of being receptive to guidance from others.
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    Tools

    Cut to the Chase

    Kristen Wade
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Kristen Wade and the Firehouse staff put their investigative journalism skills to work to dig into the state of the art in chainsaws and circular saws, including to identify models...
    Photo by Jon Tenca
    There can be numerous reasons to initiate a health and wellness program. Chief among those: improve personnel’s health to increase their ability to be physically prepared for what they confront on the fireground and improve behavioral well-being.
    Health & Fitness

    Creating a Health & Wellness Program for Your Department

    Gary Krichbaum
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Gary Krichbaum provides a step-by-step approach to launching a system to nurture physical and mental well-being among members.
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    Leadership

    The Fire Scene: The New Fire Chief

    John J. Salka Jr.
    Oct. 17, 2022
    John J. Salka Jr. provides important guidance that otherwise might elude new fire chiefs in their earliest days on the job.
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    Community Risk Reduction

    First Due: When Passion Becomes Practice

    Ben May
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Ben May reminds members that an educational or community risk reduction initiative is just as much a source of pride as is a successful knockdown.
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    Apparatus

    Electric Apparatus: En Route

    Rich Dzierwa
    Oct. 17, 2022
    Although rigs that forgo combustion-engine power don’t make sense for some departments for the time being, the fire service is on the road to the addition of the vehicles to many...