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Vehicle Extrication: Side Lifts
You arrive on scene to find a passenger vehicle on its side with victims trapped partially under the vehicle. In my opinion, this is one of the most precarious lifting sequences we perform and it can... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Rescue
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Have a Little FUN During Rescue Training
While rescue training is serious business, as it should be, it can also be fun, as well as allowing skills to be tested and used in personal and team building capacities. While I do subscribe to “tra... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Rescue
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The Case for Thermal Imaging Training
In researching and training in the area of thermal imaging we continue to see firefighters failing to either deploy or use their thermal imaging camera (TIC) on the fireground, and/or they are not tr... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Thermal Imaging
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Let’s Try First for Civility
Every four years, candidates for the highest office in the land deliver lofty speeches about what they want to do for this country. In addition to laying out ambitious domestic and foreign agendas, t... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Update from Capitol Hill
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2020 — A Year in Review
Hello, my fellow Carolina Fire-Rescue-EMS Journal readers and followers. We all began 2020 with hopes and dreams for an amazing year. I am sure I speak for us all when I say that a pandemic was not h... Read More...
Relevant Tags: EMS
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Keep Fighting the COVID Battle
We have been battling the COVID pandemic for over a year now. We are all tired and ready for this to be over. We will get to the end of this, and I believe the end is in sight. We cannot, however, lo... Read More...
Relevant Tags: News from North Carolina EMS
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The Case for Vaccinations
Monty Python’s comedic riff on the Bubonic Plague of 1348, which killed 25 million people, made us laugh with its “bring out your dead” memes picturing Londoners heaping corpses into wheelbarrows. Th... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Feature
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Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
We all join the fire department for the love of the job. As rookie firefighters, promotion is often never a thought. You hear guys say, “They’ll never get me off the rig,” or “There is too much paper... Read More...
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What’s in Your Cell Phone?
A hazardous materials incident is a dynamic, ever changing one. For this reason, the research process is ongoing throughout the incident. For years, the Rule of Three has been used when referring to ... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Hazmat
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Air Monitoring 101
Hazardous materials incidents remain one the most complex calls that the fire service can run. We typically are receiving very limited information and have to use the clues we find on arrival, along ... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Hazmat
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Secure Messaging and Information Sharing
As we continue to navigate COVID, we find ourselves transitioning to a new PIO phase of the pandemic. Vaccination sites are popping up all over the country; with mass vaccination sites in the works a... Read More...
Relevant Tags: Feature
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Upgrades Under 1 Percent
During a construction project many clients have a wish list that is a “make or break deal” for them. Some items the client will simply not live without and those are the items I will be certain to in... Read More...
Relevant Tags: The Station House
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