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• How to rightsize your response to a range of fire situations

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  Adding rapid response vehicles to your fleet offers versatility, customization at a lower cost of acquisition and operation

• Rapid Response: Coordination is key on incidents literally spanning states

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  Ohio and Kentucky fire departments work in a unified command to manage a fire and hazmat incident on the Brent Spence Bridge connecting the states

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  Putting a thermal imaging device to the test in the California wildfires

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  This pocket-sized monocular from FLIR can scan large areas through darkness, glare and haze to pinpoint hot spots before they flare up

• Rapid Response: Firefighters should treat traffic-adjacent calls like hazmat incidents

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  A freak accident in San Francisco underscores the dangers of working near moving vehicles

• Rapid Response: Beirut blast serves as stark reminder of the power of energetic materials

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  Firefighters must plan the tactical needs for all high-hazard environments in their response area

• Rapid Response: Firefighters describe alarming moments during riots

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  Close calls in dire times demands vigilance, perseverance and the option to pull back in order to stay safe

• Rapid Response: Protests prompt fire departments to consider their ‘must-saves’

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  Minneapolis protests highlight the need for contingency planning for fire/EMS facility and apparatus security

• Rapid Response: LAFD officer likely saved lives by noticing ‘scene sickness’

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  Seeing the signs and signals of environmental change is like recognizing the signs and symptoms of a stroke or heart attack

• Rapid Response: Roadway incidents are a hot zone for EMS

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  Multiple roadway LODDs in early 2020 are tragic reminders of the importance of time, distance and shielding to reduce hot zone risk

• Rapid Response: Preplanning, unified command proves essential during Pa. Turnpike MCI

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  Pennsylvania Turnpike crash underscores importance of MCI planning, unified command efforts and rehab services for long-duration events

• Rapid Response: Lack of smoke alarms contributes to multiple fatality structure fire

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  How firefighters can work with childcare facilities to help underscore fire safety

• 'Go big early' at historically unpredictable refinery fires

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  Initial observations from the Philadelphia chemical facility fire underscore importance of preplanning and SMEs

• Rapid Response: Appleton, Wis. LODD highlights need for situational awareness on routine calls

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  Remember any patient can turn violent, and make a patient assessment/search a part of your situational awareness approach to scene safety

• Rapid Response: Wis. FF’s death reinforces need to plan for violent events

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  Medical call turns violent, leaving firefighter dead, police officer and bystander wounded

• Rapid Response: 'Be prepared to go defensive'

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  Fire erupts at new Florida warehouse not yet preplanned by fire department

• Rapid Response: Notre Dame fire poses unique challenges for Paris Fire Brigade

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  Firefighters face multiple hazards at cultural icon as it continues to burn

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