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Care For Thermal Imaging Camera Batteries
All personnel starting this month care for thermal batteries will follow recommendation from Bullard.
The first of each month completely discharge one of the TIC batteries and than recharge it using the station charger. Once you have one discharge and than recharged, do the same with the second battery if it runs over to the next shift complete the process. TIC batteries have between 12 and 16 months until they need to be replaced, like any other rechargeable battery, they can build a memory if they are left in a charger all the time.
As batteries go out, we will replace them. If the batteries are not marked, please mark them A and B.
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Upcoming Class:
Training Division is offering
a number of classes coming up in the near future. They are in the
Fire Academy catalog also. Which means if they
do not have the minimum 2 weeks before the start they will cancel the
class. Starting in February they will be going to a 30 Cut off.
2130-10601 Building
Construction Non combustible May 11-15 Cut off April 11
2118-10602 PICO June 1-5 Cut off May 1
The Fire
Academy
is holding to the
30 day
cut off, Get registrations in early.
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In the fire service, your reputation can precede you.
During my first shift at the Redlands (Calif.) Fire Department, my captain, Rick Lynski, sat me down for "the talk."
You know the one: You sit down and the captain tells you how things will be done while you nod your head up and down with that dumb look on your face,
agreeing to whatever they have to say. I had a few of these talks with some of my previous captains, but this particular talk stood out because Captain Lynski asked me if I knew what a tattoo was. "Of course," I said, nodding. Then he asked me if I knew what a "fire department tattoo" was. I didn't know what he was talking about and began to imagine a number of bad scenarios as I answered, "No, sir."
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Vehicle fire
operations are a basic skill rarely talked about — but they're certainly
worthy of in-depth discussion.
While they're more prevalent than structural fires, we tend to take such
operations more lightly unless the vehicle is parked in a garage.
Reported vehicle fires in the United States averaged 325,100 annually from 1999-2003, according to the NFPA statistics, These fires were the direct cause of an average 440 civilian deaths, 1,500 civilian injuries and $1.2 billion in direct property damage. It goes to show we should never be complacent when it comes to fighting these fires.
(more)"Attack from the unburned side"--it has
been drilled into us from years of training. There are several
good arguments for attacking from the unburned side, including
"pushing the fire away from the occupants" and "pushing the fire
out the nearest vent opening."
These sound like good reasons, but if the fire involves the
primary means of egress, you will likely need additional hose
and personnel to move that hose into position to attack the fire
from the unburned side.
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