Daily Fire Fix 01/20/12- Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System

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On today’s Daily Fire Fix- Each week, Daily Fire Fix shines the spotlight on a special fire service web page or technical feature that you may want to check out on your own. This week, we focus on The Report of the Week from the web page FirefighterNearMiss.com

The Chiefs Trumpet- Paying it Forward

Click here to listen! The success of an individual is based upon predicated knowledge skills and abilities.  So how do we develop individuals?  A long standing successful strategy has been individuals paying it forward as mentors.  In this addition of the Chief’s Trumpet you will hear generations of fire service leaders discuss their success based [...]

Daily Fire Fix 01/19/12- Worst U.S. Fire Dept.?

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Have we found the worst fire department in the U.S.? Sadly, probably not. For every video we see like this there are dozens of fire departments as bad or worse that never make it to the “little screen.”

Daily Fire Fix 01/18/12

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We’ve dug up audio of rescuers admonishing the ship’s captain to return to his ship and assist in the rescue effort; the first video from inside the half-submerged cruise ship of the technical rescue operations in place including the use of controlled explosions in the rescue effort. Then look at a 4-alarm rowhouse fire in Brooklyn and listen in on all the fireground audio.

Daily Fire Fix 01/13/12

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Tulsa’s James O’Neal, the firefighter who went down in full arrest during an arson fire last week, was released from the hospital today, far ahead of expectations. Our videos of the day come from a New Jersey 4-alarm fire which injured two firefighters as they made a third story pick rescuing an elderly woman.

Daily Fire Fix 01/12/12

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On today’s Daily Fire Fix- Another serial arsonist in California? A volunteer firefighter who noticed some dude starting fires along the road so he pulled over and put the fires out, then had to put the arsonist out as well: watch a three-ring circus which erupts at a public fimeeting caught on tape.

Daily Fire Fix 01/11/12

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A massive five alarm secure storage facility fire video report with a firefighter mayday out of Toronto; our videos of the day of a harrowing rescue of an “infant” by two Spiderman bystanders; we spotlight Backstep Firefighter- a website in which you’ll want to make a regular stop!

Daily Fire Fix 01/10/12

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On today’s Daily Fire Fix- The fire service suffers its second and third line of duty deaths, both at accident scenes in the Carolinas. We take a look at the recent fatal hi rise fire in Chicago, just days after the city council extended its deadline for the installation of fire safety devices in such buildings.

Daily Fire Fix- 1/09/2012

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The fire service suffers its first line of duty death when a Florida firefighter falls from a new ladder truck during training. Is a serial arsonist on the loose in the Bluegrass State? Our video of the day comes from the land down under with a fire truck emerging from down under 11 feet of flood waters enroute to a call.

Daily Fire Fix 01/06/12

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DCFD Lt. Robert “Cadillac” Alvarado is joining the chorus of DC firefighters speaking out against the new FEMS patch directive from Chief Ellerbe. We point out a humorous look at how difficult it can be to create a decent training video when you have firefighters for actors.

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