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FF Schedules: DC Bucks the Trend
Amidst the growing tendency in some parts of the US to approve 48-hours as the normal for firefighter duty shifts, the fire chief of Washington, DC, Kenneth Ellerbe, is taking an assertive step in the...
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Ellerbe’s Elegy: Saga of the 12-hour Shift
District of Columbia Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe is set to forge ahead with his recently announced plan to convert the department from the current 24/72 work schedule to a 12-hour shift format....
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The Deutsche Bank Fire and J’accuse? Not So Fast.
Yesterday’s blog post at IAFF online by Rich Duffy trumpets a “must read” article in a “prestigious, professional online magazine” by author John Steadman concerning the fatal fire at the former...
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How the US Military Proves FDNY Wrong
“A Social Experiment” Harry S. Truman President Harry Truman’s grandparents owned slaves and historians have said that he was raised and conditioned to be a racist. Yet, just 100 days before the 1948...
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Kathmandu FD
Nepal’s Bravest Kathmandu Valley Nepal’s Capital, Kathmandu, is nestled in a broad valley at about 4,000 ft above sea level. As it is about the same latitude as Key West, Florida,...
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PG’s Kentland Scores PR Gusher
Post Assigns Witless Reporter 33′s PR coup Prince George’s County, Maryland, is infamous for any number of things including what passes for a fire department in a metropolitan...
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FF Safety: Out-of-Bounds at Tunnel Creek
Social Factors and Risk Assessment Tunnel Creek Avalanche This past February 19th, 16 highly experienced skiers and snowboarders, making up an impromptu group, attempted an out-of-bounds run near...
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American Jihad
Gun Ownership is a Cherished and Protected Freedom Now that we have that out of the way, it would be nice to explore an aspect of the American response to the idea that there are limitations to such a...
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Fire Safety: Kiss, The Station Redux
No Seconds to Spare Station Fire at 40 seconds Sunday was a day of disaster in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria as a raging fire at a popular club called Kiss killed over 230 patrons. The fire was...
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Firefighter Safety: The Columbia Disaster
Tolerating and Ignoring Risk 107Lifts Off Ten years ago today, the Columbia space shuttle, operating as STS-107, disintegrated over Texas killing all aboard. Columbia had completed a 16-day mission...
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Responder Safety: When Attention is “Tunnelled”
American Airlines 2253 Does what we expect to happen influence our awareness? Why is constant monitoring essential? AA 757-200 Over-run(AP) Snowy Day 2253 was a Chicago to Jackson Hole, Wyoming (JAC),...
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Seaside Park: Who Saved the Boardwalk?
Answer: Nobody The week of September 11th, blessedly calm in most respects, was rudely enlivened on the Jersey Shore by a massive fire in Seaside Park which destroyed the recently reconstructed...
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Review: WaPo Goes To Fire Land
Welcome to the Park The Washington Post, a.k.a WaPo, trekked to Fire Land, a.k.a. Prince George’s County, Maryland, to cover the aftermath of a 2012 fire where firefighters were injured. “Cold Air....
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A Deadly Dive: Leadership, Safety and Training
Seven Minutes and 150 Feet Nearly one year ago, February 26, 2013, two young Navy divers died during a reckless and unnecessary certification dive in frigid 150 feet deep water at Aberdeen Proving...
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Health & Safety: MERS on the Move
Deadly Respiratory Virus Now in Asia Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) has now spread to both Malaysia and the Philippines according to news sources. MERS kills about 50% of those infected through...
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