Car Fire Firefighter Slips - Close Call On Helmet Camera

New close call video captured on a helmet camera. The video is pretty tough to follow, but stick with it to 2:42 to catch the firefighter getting up after a fall.

Text and Video - RIPVANSLINKLE YOUTUBE
"Firefighters from Kearney, MO responded to a MVC with fire envolvement. E-1, M-1 and Tanker 1 arrived on the scene to find a Ford Thunderbird fully involved. After the initial knock down it was found the vehicle had a ruptured fuel tank fueled with E-85 fuel. When the fuel ignited the vehicle a second time the firefighter on the nozzle advanced to make the attack and slipped on snow and ice on a 45 degree bank. The firefighter fell feet first under the passenger side door. With quick action by the firefighter and his parter on the line, he was pulled to safety. No injuries were sustained to the driver of the vehicle or the firefighter and the blaze was extinguished with a dry chem extinguisher."

10 Questions With Brian P Kazmierzak - #1

With Brian P. Kazmierzak
I have been working with some great people in the fire industry for many years now. Many of the people have been an inspiration to me as a firefighter, a fire officer, and someone who tries to educate fellow firefighters about limiting close calls and firefighter fatalities. I am starting a new weekly series called "10 Questions". This series will ask the same questions to many different relevant figures in the fire industry. I hope you enjoy and thank the contributors for taking the time to answer the questions. In weeks to come we will hear from the likes of Billy G, Battalion chiefs, Training Instructors, news makers, and many more.

What is your current experience in the fire service?
I am currently employed by the Clay Fire Territory in South Bend, IN as the Division Chief of Training & Safety. I have been at Clay for 15 years, plus two years as a dispatcher. I have worked as a firefighter, engineer, lieutenant, captain and currently as the Training Chief. I have watched this department grow from two stations with 17 career and 15 volunteers to a department that now has five firehouses with 25 personnel on duty each day.

Is there a particular fire or person that has changed your career in the service?
Several

• Asst. Chief Terry Byrne – Terry was the Assistant Chief when I started as a cadet at age 14. He always looked out for me and started taking me fanning in Chicago at a very young age.
• Asst. Chief John Vance – John and I became friends early on in my career at Clay and he has looked out for me along my journey
• Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder – Billy got me involved with FirefighterCloseCalls.com about five years ago – which has opened up tons of doors for me in my career
• Fire Chief Timm Schabbel – Chief Schabbel has been my Fire Chief the past 12 years at Clay. He has molded me into the firefighter and fire officer that I am today and I would not be where I am today without his leadership

What would be your best advice to the probie firefighter?

You can NEVER know enough about a job that can KILL you!

What are your favorite resources online for firefighter training and news, and do you participate in any online or print fire resources?

• Director of Operations – http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/
• My other favorite site is http://www.statter911.com/, I am also very involved with http://www.bluecardcommand.com/

How do you see the role of the Internet changing the fire service?

The Internet has allowed more information sharing than ever before. FirefighterCloseCalls.com, Firehouse.com, FireVideo.net, FirefighterSpot.com, FireEngineering.com are all great places for firefighter resources and training information. USE IT. Also social networking in some cases has been the downfall of the fire service. Just go to YOUTUBE and FACEBOOK and see all the STUPID stuff we have a tendency to post. Also check out www.Statter911.com on any given day and see what we are doing stupid today – also another example is: http://www.firerescue1.com/labor-issues/articles/765087-SC-firefighter-medic-fired-over-Facebook-video-post/

What do you see as a way to insure safe responses in departments?
(seat belts, driver training, observations of basic traffic laws) Company Officers & Training Officers

How do you feel we can limit preventable repeated close calls and firefighter fatalities?
Use FirefighterCloseCalls.com and FirefighterNearMiss.com to learn from the close calls and LODDs of previous firefighters and use those to prevent death and injury in your fire department.

Do you have any recommendations for departments with budget cuts in relation to safely staffing and preserving the 2 in 2 out during operations? The On-Deck Concept out of Phoenix, AZ is probably the biggest thing a department can do to ensure 2in/2out instead of providing RIT Lip Service. On-Deck is much more realistic and is more of a mindset as the rescue techniques remain the same.

Firefighting and Cancer go hand in hand, How can we effectively reduce cancer risks to our fellow firefighters?

WEAR YOUR SCBA – DON’T BREATHE SMOKE! Seems pretty simple but just yesterday I saw some pictures out of the Chicagoland area of some NIST burns and the firefighters on the roof failed to wear SCBA. Come on guys – it’s 2010 – MACHO isn’t cool! That stuff WILL kill you!

What do you think is most important for the future of the fire service?

We need to be COMMUNITY-FOCUSED and do more than just fire. We can’t sit on our butts in the lazy-boy. We need to be an all-hazards service embracing EMS, and most of all community risk reduction. We must realize our mission is to HELP others. It seems some of us forget that during this time of fiscal constraint. We must be able to justify what we do and not just used biased scare tactics – that doesn’t work anymore.

FDNY - News Wrap Up

March 5, 2010
Suspicious Blaze at St. Nicholas of Tolentine in the Bronx
NY Homeland Security Opens

March 6, 2010
Fatal Fire in Flatbush

March 7, 2010
Woman Critical After SI All Hands Fire
Accident at Freedom Tower Fuels Fued

March 8, 2010
FDNY transforms to Firefighter Safety Culture

March 10, 2010
FDNY Rescues Apartment Occupants From Fire Escape
Brush Fire in Great Kills Park

March 11, 2010
Times Square Blaze Draws Large Crowd
Fire at St James Theatre in Midtown (West)
Fire on Bank Street Apartments iN West Village
FDNY Probes Brooklyn Blaze That Injured 3

March 12, 2010
Three Fires in Brooklyn, One Deadly

March 13, 2010
Teen held in Brooklyn Blaze That Injured two FF and Killed one Civilian
FDNY Ladder 108 Tom Westman from Survivor Goes to Last Survivor Tribal Council

Peru Firefighter Catches On Fire - Close Call Video

This video features another close call in Peru. Firefighters are going to work on another commercial type fire in which there appears to be some containers involved. It is unkown at this time what the contents of the containers are, but eventually one of the firefighters becomes involved in the fire.

Peru Firefighter Close Call Backdraft Flashover Video

I found this close call video today. It features heavy smoke pouring from a commercial building, and an eventual eruption into flames. Note the hoseline going into the interior, and the firefighters right at the doorway.

Russian Firefighters Go To Work

Hat tip to http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/ for this
very interesting video out of Russia. I am sure the firefighter
spotters will enjoy this new video.