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Distance Separates Us
Distance separates us. Of course it does, you are probably thinking. That’s not that much of a revelation. But distance separates us all the more so because by being distant, or more so, by not...
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Use of Faith-Based NGOs As Disaster Response Partners
For some of the new readers here, not only is Firehouse Zen about enlightened leadership, it is about management issues and creative solutions to ongoing problems in the emergency service industry. If...
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The Thanks of a Nation
Author’s Note: I updated this post from the original due to what looked like, in hindsight, to be mostly whining. My apologies to those of you subjected to the original garbage. Maybe it’s the...
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Vigilance and Haiti
South Carolina US&R Task Force at Vigilant Guard As is always the case in times like these, fire and emergency service providers stand ready to send whatever relief is necessary to aid the...
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Urban Search and Rescue – Rockbreaking 101
SC-TF1, GA, and MD-TF2 working with St. Bernard, LA at Katrina Since there seems to be a huge lean forward from people who want to know more about US&R, and since US&R is (and has been) one of...
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US&R in Haiti: Wishing vs. Planning
SC-TF1 US&R working in St. Tammany Parish, LA after Katrina. I’m sure everyone out there continues to keep an eye on Haiti. I’m not easily shocked, yet even I have been amazed at some of the...
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Breaking News: Huge Earthquake Hits Chile
SCTF1 Personnel performing search training at SCFA US&R site in Columbia, SC I reported to work this morning and caught this news as I walked in the door. This quake was reported as being an 8.8...
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Credibility
One of the biggest problems the fire service has is its credibility. I received multiple e-mails over the past few weeks about a confined space training near-miss that in reading the information, I...
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You Can Quote Me On That (Before 2010)
I was driving down the road the other day and thinking, you know, I too could have a list of quotes, just like the real writers have. So in the interest of filling up a page of useless knowledge, I...
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Okay, Let’s Try This Again
In June 2009, I blogged about spontaneous bystander response, or rather, the difference between that and a bunch of people jumping into their Fire SUV and driving to say, Bastrop, Texas, only to be...
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