Charles Bailey

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• Do you have a 'parking lot' fire department?

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  There's a range of training options available to ensure firefighters are well trained for suppression efforts when it matters

• London fire harbinger of looming challenge for fire departments

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  Preventing high-rise mass fatality fires is more likely to happen through the prevention side of the house, not the response side

• Fire attack: A case for indiscriminate cooling

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  Some will argue that indiscriminately cooling the approach path will adversely alter the thermal balance; here's why it improves safety and survivability

• 2 firefighter maydays and Jupiter's gravity

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  Commanding and running a real mayday happens at a speed and force that instruction cannot replicate

• How one fire department reduced firefighters' overhaul risks

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  Simple tools and processes can reduce exposure risk without compromising the fire mission

• Lessons from real and simulated events

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  Simulated and real events have different lessons to teach us, both are vitally important to sound fireground behavior

• Firefighting tactics for saving victims

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  Keeping victims isolated from fire and cooling the environment are critical tactics

• Cowboys or cowards: Fire service language determines behavior

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  The words we use sets the tone for our firefighting culture, which then influences how we behave on the fireground

• More information does not make for better decisions

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  New technology processes seemingly unlimited information in an instant, yet our brains do not

• Burning buildings: Why fire science matters

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  As critical as the research is on how modern furnishings burn, the real importance lies in what we do with the results

• Why 'risk moralists' are wrong

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  Those who call for risk on ethical grounds are not on solid footing

• Research findings for the real world

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  Making the link from laboratory to fireground is essential for civilian and firefighter safety

• Heroes and cowards: Today's face of firefighting?

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  I am worried that we have been collectively conditioned to accept risk as a sort of rite of passage

• The dangers of Vent-Enter-Search

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  Some are advocating the addition of an "I" into the equation, calling is VEIS or vent, enter, isolate, and search

• 2 a.m. calls and the importance of training

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  I have written at length about how experience is not always a valuable or reliable tool

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