Case Study: The Hanford Fire Department

Nestled deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, the Linville Gorge is a federally designated wilderness area that is part of Pisgah National Forest. This unique slice of southern Appalachia is managed by the Grandfather Ranger District and is located in the Blue Ridge Escarpment near the town of Marion, NC. To the east, Linville Gorge is bordered by Jonas Ridge, and the slopes of Linville Mountain form the western border. The two steep sides create a terrain that is extremely rugged and rocky, which would seemingly make it difficult for vegetation to establish communities on the canyon walls. However, this is not the case, as the gorge has very dense populations of hardwoods, conifers, and understory shrubs. The intimidating topography of the Linville Gorge Wilderness area enabled it to be

On 05/02/2018 the Merced County fire department responded to a fire on the property of 15476 August Ave, in the township of Delhi. Fire department personnel arrived on scene and located a large junk pile on the north east corner of the property was in flames. In the course of attempting to control the fire, firefighters opened up an adjacent 30 foot white Aly Aljo trailer with Brown Orange &Tan stripes. Firefighters noticed a large amount of marijuana inside the trailer and contacted the Merced County Sheriff’s Office. Merced County Sheriff’s Deputies responded were able to see from a broken window outside the trailer that there was a large amount of marijuana inside the trailer. Merced County Sheriff’s Deputies contacted the Merced Area Gang and Narcotic Enforcement Team (M.A.G.N.E.T.)

On the night of October 8, 1871 at 9:00pm, a horrible fire broke loose. Very dry weather, leaving the ground dry, the wooden city vulnerable. The abundance of wooden buildings a fire started in a barn, outside in Chicago behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary at 13 Dekoven street. The Great Chicago Fire people are saying was caused by the cow of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary kicked a lantern. No one really doesn’t know how this great fire was started but some theories say humans or a matador caused this fire.

NASA firefighters and the Titusville Fire Department each have been given an artifact from the World Trade Center to display to visitors. Both beams are currently en route to Brevard County and will help to honor those who were victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Throughout the world, The United States is known to have one of the most aggressive, progressive and passionate emergency fire services who constantly serve their localities. The fire service has immensely developed in American culture, starting as early as the 1600’s in Colonial America and continuing to today in the 21st Century. Fire departments throughout the world have the similar goal of protecting and saving life and property, however the United States has taken this to the most extreme. This vital service to the community has always been and will always be a necessity to a city in order to guarantee the prosperity of the public.

Matthew, Josh, and Dylan stood in rapt silence as they gazed over the beauteous sky.

The Council Bluffs Fire Department earned 39.3 out of 50 possible points in the 2014 ISO evaluation. Details of the credit earned in the Fire Department section are found in Table 8.

The Clayton fire, named for the creek near where it broke out, was driven by fierce winds into the foothill community of Lower Lake, 80 miles (130 km) north of San Francisco, forcing hundreds of residents to flee. That fire broke out on Saturday evening.

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 went on for several days, destroyed thousands of buildings, killed many people, and cause well over millions of dollars in damage. This is a horrible tragedy that happen in our country. It led to unlawfulness of the citizens it affected. There is still great controversy on the start of the fire. Although we do know that in the end everything turned out good and the city is now rebuilt bigger and better than before and is still continuing to grow to this day.

Candidate Rodriguez gave a clear, direct and very confident brief of the five paragraph order to his fire team. SNC was able to address all the key points with the exception of command and signal. SNC briefed the need for security but, did not utilize during the execution phase. SNC displayed great communication skills which were very effective throughout the course. SNC displayed a great deal of urgency and relayed this to his team members also. SNC showed great leadership skills and positive control of his fire team. This was displayed during one particular portion when the rope was penalized for touching red and was told to drop it from the top of the obstacle, the team member at the top misunderstood and also came down as well. SNC

I am writing this letter to compliment the IAFF for a job well done. A few months back we had two instructors from the IAFF come to our firehouse, and over the course of three days they taught our 80 member hazmat team on the subject of illicit labs. The information given was accurate and very applicable to our profession.

According the website of The Glendale Fire Department in California, the mission of the department is to “protect life and property by providing the highest level of service to the community”. Every year millions of firefighters, and fire investigators take an oath similar to the mission of the Glendale Fire Department. For the most part, many of the people who take these oaths value their jobs and work tirelessly to uphold the missions of their departments. Unfortunately, there are also people such a John Orr, who take the same oath to protect life and property but instead use their position to cause devastation and destruction.

Chapel Hill firefighter Marvie Stokes was dismissed today after rescuing a guide dog from a smoking apartment building at 11: 30 a.m.

Candidate Swink was able to deliver a calm, confident and thorough brief of the five paragraph order to his team members. All the main points were addressed which left little room for questions from his fire team. Upon execution, SNC's initial plan did not seem too solid, but readjusted the plan well enough to get the first member on top of the wall. SNC took suggestions from his team members which aided greatly on getting another two members as well as both ammo cans to the top of the obstacle. The successful act could have jeopardized his role as a leader by not formulating the plan himself. The end result was more of a positive team effort rather than a negative endeavor. SNC was able to display effective time management and confident

The situation that is happening with the Bay City Fire Department is very disturbing because they are supposed to be one of the few pillars in the community for people to trust to get their job done, and I believe they have a very important role to fulfill but they are slacking majorly. A few speculations on why they are violating standard operational procedures because that is how the older firefighters did it in the past. Since many of the firefighters in charge are much older than the recruits they have ways of doing tasks differently than the new regulations that were put in place over the years. Another speculation that could be made is that there may not be much commotion in the community and whoever gets to the fire the quickest or to the accident the fastest will get the recognition and the excitement of completing a task. Thirdly, the mild form of hazing that the veterans put the recruits through contributes to why they are not progressing and why many of them are dying in fires. They are taught by the older ones that they have to look and follow specific duties in order to become a real firefighter. The last reason they might be having so many accidents is that the older regulations that the captains are following and the new regulations that recruits are following are clashing literally with the truck crashes and figuratively with ideologies.