If you ask yourself the question “What do I want to get better at this week, month, or year?” what subject or subjects does your mind go to? Basic Firefighting Skills? Nutrition? Physical Fitness? These are certainly the top topics that it’s easiest for us to put into the crosshairs of personal development and growth. […]
The Fire Service Deserves Better. It’s a simple fact. It’s time for all of us to step up and truly fight for what is right, what matters, and what positive progress looks like. Basic skills, knowledge transfer, commitment, relevant fitness and leadership. The fire service should be leading the world through positive living examples in […]
Nine Career Firefighters in the City of Charleston Died in the Sofa SuperMart Fire June 18, 2007 On this 12th anniversary we remember and learn from the lessons at the Sofa SuperMart fire in the city of Charleston. Many factors contributed to the tragic incident, some of them occurring years before the call ever even […]
The Metro Atlanta Firefighters Conference (MAFFC) & the Firefighter Craftsmanship Crew Recently the Firefighter Craftsmanship had the distinct honor to travel to Atlanta and share, learn and grow with some extremely motivated firefighters from around the country at the Metro Atlanta Firefighters Conference. Most of the firefighters that we had interaction with were from the […]
Simple Circular Saw Firefighter Training Evolution Cpt Jon McKeon Firefighter Craftsmanship It can sometimes be a challenge to come up with relevant and effective drills that can be performed at the station. At our department there are times where we have to remain in service and ready to respond in our district rather than go […]
Are you stressing about an upcoming training class you’re teaching? Not sure it’s good enough? Got all those dang voices in your head second guessing your every move leading up to the class? Here are 5 Proven Concepts to ensure your class delivery isn’t going to suck. But don’t take our word for it! Introducing […]
By Bryan Lynch Vertical Ventilation is consistently referred as “one of the most dangerous things we do”. This is simply not true. Bryan Lynch of Irons and Ladders took it upon himself to research all LODD’s involving building collapse from 1994-2013 (excluding 9-11-01) to see what the trends and data actually says. A special thanks […]
Communicate: Tremendous Results in the Firehouse and on the Fireground Captain Kevin Housley Firefighter Craftsmanship On the fire scene, most departments require some sort of “feedback loop” to ensure pertinent radio traffic has been received and that strategic and tactical objectives are being implemented as intended. But in almost every single […]
Train Firefighters and Yourself Effectively At times we focus all our efforts on quantity of training and unfortunately even measure ourselves against other companies using this metric. How much are we out stretching hoselines, searching, throwing ladders? It is the easiest thing to measure. Instead, maybe, we should focus our effort on the quality & […]
Estimating the Hose Stretch: Suburban Residential Structure Fires Capt. Kevin Housley Firefighter Craftsmanship 2018 When I went through the fire academy in 2005 we were never taught a simple rule of thumb on how to estimate how much hose we actually needed to efficiently attack a residential or commercial structure fire. It was more along […]
