Tag Archives: SCBA

Confined Space Training On USS North Carolina
July 14, 2013 | administration-leadership, command-leadership, Confined Space Training, Dispatch & Communications, Emergency Communications, EMS Dispatch, ems-health-safety, ems-topics, Fire Dispatch, Fire Safety, fire-prevention-education, fire-rescue-topics, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, fires, funding-staffing, hazmat, in-the-line-of-duty, Kill the flashover, line-of-duty, major-incidents, mass-casualty-incident, news, patient-management, rescues, special-operations, technology-communications, technology-communications-ems-topics, Training, training-development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized, vehicle-operation-ambulances, vehicle-operations-apparatus, videos, wildland | Eric Stroud | No Comments
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It is that time of year again to sigh up for a rare opportunity to train on the most decorated Battleship in all of World War II, the USS North Carolina located in beautiful Wilmington North Carolina. While taking this program you will get a chance to put your skills to the test and have […]

To Go… or Not To Go… (That is the question)
March 5, 2013 | administration-leadership, command-leadership, ems-health-safety, Fire Dispatch, fire-prevention-education, fire-rescue-topics, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, fires, Kill the flashover, major-incidents, mass-casualty-incident, news, rescues, special-operations, technology-communications, Training, training-development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized | Eric Stroud | No Comments
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  During my recent trip to the S.C. Fire Academy for the 2013 Kill the Flashover research fires, I came away with one aspect as to the importance of thermal imaging and the fire attack that rocked my paradigm. It is referred as the GO..NO TEST. This is worthy of reading brothers so don’t stop […]

Out of Air Emergency (Last Chance Rescue Filter)
January 12, 2012 | administration-leadership, command-leadership, Dispatch & Communications, Emergency Communications, EMS Dispatch, ems-health-safety, ems-topics, Fire Dispatch, Fire Safety, fire-rescue-topics, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, fires, funding-staffing, in-the-line-of-duty, line-of-duty, major-incidents, mass-casualty-incident, patient-management, rescues, special-operations, technology-communications, technology-communications-ems-topics, Training, training-development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized, vehicle-operations-apparatus, videos | Eric Stroud | No Comments
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You are in a dark, heat, smoke filled room, and you are taking your last breath. You think to yourself now what?. Your mind quickly goes to a check list of things to do. During this check list, your family comes to mind. Is this it? I’m never going to see them again. The nervousness […]

Super Heros????
December 2, 2010 | command-leadership, fire-rescue-topics, firefighting-operations, fires, line-of-duty, rescues, special-operations, training-development, training-fire-rescue-topics, Uncategorized | Eric Stroud | No Comments
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Does PPE make firefighters a super hero? How many of us think we will not get hurt with our PPE on?

Loading the Barrel of the Shot Gun…. Live Fire Training Comments
November 1, 2010 | administration-leadership, command-leadership, fire-prevention-education, fire-rescue-topics, firefighter-safety-health, firefighting-operations, fires, training-development, training-fire-rescue-topics | Trey Smith | 3 Comments
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Are we seriously training firefighters that our gear and our equipment is always reliable to protect us from such temperature extremes such as flashover?