Search Culture in Firefighting: Mastering Survivability Mindset for Early Victim Rescue
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Search Culture in Firefighting: Mastering Survivability Mindset for Early Victim Rescue
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We can’t Science our way through every fire. I separately asked a few well educated, trained and experienced water/Engine Co. firefighters: I arrive on the Heavy Rescue with Four. Two enter the main door to locate, confine, etc. Two enter a window for Search., you arrive 2nd due on an Engine Co., are you prioritizing hitting the visible fire from the outside OR are you letting is blow and stretching up the stairs and getting that interior line ASAP, to prioritize protecting the Search Co. and th
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We can’t Science our way through every fire. I separately asked a few well educated, trained and experienced water/Engine Co. firefighters: I arrive on the Heavy Rescue with Four. Two enter the main door to locate, confine, etc. Two enter a window for Search., you arrive 2nd due on an Engine Co., are you prioritizing hitting the visible fire from the outside OR are you letting is blow and stretching up the stairs and getting that interior line ASAP, to prioritize protecting the Search Co. and th
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‘It’s time to embrace a new culture – a culture of search and rescue’
‘It’s time to embrace a new culture – a culture of search and rescue’
Jul 18, 2022
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Search standards for Fire Attack Fire Attack has a standard operating practice (within our department) that they will prioritize locating fire- (The priority of Search). They will confine the fire, call out "Fire Room" and that leads to The Heel getting the nozzlemen enough hose to extinguish fire, The Heel will Search the direct Fire Danger area and then adjacent room/areas. The nozzleman and the Heel will Search the Fire Room once it is knocked down. This is NOT Fire Attack & Search, This is F
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Search standards for Fire Attack Fire Attack has a standard operating practice (within our department) that they will prioritize locating fire- (The priority of Search). They will confine the fire, call out "Fire Room" and that leads to The Heel getting the nozzlemen enough hose to extinguish fire, The Heel will Search the direct Fire Danger area and then adjacent room/areas. The nozzleman and the Heel will Search the Fire Room once it is knocked down. This is NOT Fire Attack & Search, This is F
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Portland Fire, rescued 8 civilians | Search Culture
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Portland Fire, rescued 8 civilians | Search Culture
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We split crews of more than 3 into two crews for search. Two for fire, two for life, two enter a door, two enter a window with the expectation that they continue the search until it’s complete. Forcing doors or windows, one masks up while the other forces and then swap if needed, no wasted time. They heard radio traffic of water on the fire, now all windows in low/zero viz are broke out if needed and interior doors are opened up to get some life. | Search Culture
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We split crews of more than 3 into two crews for search. Two for fire, two for life, two enter a door, two enter a window with the expectation that they continue the search until it’s complete. Forcing doors or windows, one masks up while the other forces and then swap if needed, no wasted time. They heard radio traffic of water on the fire, now all windows in low/zero viz are broke out if needed and interior doors are opened up to get some life. | Search Culture
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Coordinating an easy Search: E11 (Fire Attack) located fire in the kitchen. E12 (All in for Search - two members) | Search Culture
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Coordinating an easy Search: E11 (Fire Attack) located fire in the kitchen. E12 (All in for Search - two members) | Search Culture
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Do to both rescues going out Charlie side. Plan A for Charlie side to Alpha side with a victim in the yard is a full EMS BUDs handle (as you can see in the video). The 1/2 BUDs is for the interior. (Video cred: Clackamas Fire) | Search Culture
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“Don’t pass up fire with the nozzle” is a saying gone awry and often not discussed into the depth that is needed for best practice. T16 arrived first due, forced the front door and we had a good production of HOT black smoke. The first due Engine stretched to the interior. But what if it was just a haze of smoke, what if we had a line? A nozzleman needs to be disciplined. If we had a light haze or alike, stretched to the interior to the man door of the garage and the door was still holding or ha
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“Don’t pass up fire with the nozzle” is a saying gone awry and often not discussed into the depth that is needed for best practice. T16 arrived first due, forced the front door and we had a good production of HOT black smoke. The first due Engine stretched to the interior. But what if it was just a haze of smoke, what if we had a line? A nozzleman needs to be disciplined. If we had a light haze or alike, stretched to the interior to the man door of the garage and the door was still holding or ha
226.9K views9 months ago
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A powerful way to support the Mission is to not respond to every 9-1-1 call. Not every call requires a fire response. When we send apparatus to low-risk incidents, we place real emergent responses at risk by tying up companies that should be available for true emergencies. Chasing optics — “it doesn’t look good” — or advertising raw call volume to gain public support misses the point. The public doesn’t understand the difference between a company running 1,500 calls versus 3,500 calls. What they
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A search crew of two entered a window to search for life, because Fire Attack had already located the fire (searches priority objective). They did not leave a FF outside to hold back efforts and go against data, they entered with two. They had knowledge of water on the fire, so they left all interior doors open, to improve our ventilation. Professionalism, not covered in your textbooks. Your Textbooks may be even telling you the opposite and sharing unsupported fear to spread the misinformation.
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Have or know of videos of interior drags/rescues from actual fires? Even assists with challenges would be worth while. Post video or link in comments | Search Culture
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Yard debris, expect hoarding on the inside. This affects our entry, our search area, our movement on the inside, our coordination & our ability for rescue. | Search Culture
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This could be anyone of our companies. How can we prepare our company for ladder rescues? If there is anyone that is not directly hands on affecting the rescue, we want decision makers. Go grab a second or even a third ladder. Parallel ladders is the goal, they don't have the be the same length or the same angles. Place them 6" apart, to allow us to keep ahold of the rails with victim in hand. The second or third ladder would: Allow one to take the window next to the victim & enter: They can the
632.2K viewsMay 3, 2025
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Seeing these conditions, I wouldn’t hesitate to take a window and commit a crew to search. Prior to water on the fire, in this fire, we’re good to go. Look at the lift at the front door. That’s what we should be hunting for at every door and window. And the only way to find it is to open doors and take windows. We can do that when we isolate before knockdown, and we can do it anytime after knockdown as well. A couple seconds into this video and it’s already fair game. EDIT: This post isn’t speci
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Getting off the rig with gloves on and Masking-up with gloves on in front of the building, has its benefits (clear verbal communication with crew & from civilians with reports of victims, also allows us to take in a good size-up). The negative: Time 5-10 seconds, in which we argue we make up for that with our benefits. Masking-up in the rig has its benefits (TIME). The negative: Decreased efficiency of verbal communication & ability to take it all in as efficient. BUT, getting off the rig with n
58.3K viewsMay 9, 2025
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Recruits adapting and overcoming. They called for parallel Ladders. They realize that one can enter the room, isolate, search the room and continue down the hallway. They realize that another can enter the room and start a search from a window. They realize the civilian is now a lowert priority & adjust. One relized that he can unplug his air. Another crew realized thay work needs to continue and three two more ladders to the room adjacent. There is still some standing around at the bottom of th
120.3K viewsMay 10, 2025
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When assigned SEARCH, one of our members will typically bring a ladder to the building. If we are waiting to get eyes on the building, conditions, interior, knowledge of the door being a hard force, Fire Attack is clogging the entry, Fire is blocking access, hoarding blocking access to determine if we need a ladder or not - we are not being efficient with our time. Throw a ladder to allow us to make a decision. We make floor two and have a victim, now we have options to make the rescue without w
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We are not perfect. These are our recruits. We have standards, expectations & training, that allow them to operate at a professional level. They are expected to give a conditions report, if they are the first to the interior on any floor. They are expected, taught & encouraged to make decisions. They arrived on a 4 man rig & assigned "all in for search". Why did they split 2/2? Does your department allow companies to split? How coordinated is your search? Departments can be "aggressive" with sea
39.5K viewsMay 9, 2025
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Searching from windows, is a foundational search. That means that it’s, the simplest to perform, to learn, to teach, to coordinate with a whole crew entering and is a less complicated search with less decisions, than if we entered the front door. We typically enter windows with the whole crew for search, when the fire has been located (usually by the first due Engine Co. that defaults as Fire Attack). Searching from windows, should be our go to. Sending the whole crew in to start a search from t
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Firefighter Search Technique: Tripod Position
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YouTubeThe Humble Firefighter
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El Dorado Hills Fire 6500 sq/ft search, this is not a commercial. | Search Culture
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We can’t always make the interior without a line. What is not searchable now, will be with a few seconds of 170 GPMs flowing from a 1.88 w/ 15/16 nozzle. Not all goat trails lead to doors with easy pathways, in hoarder fires. | Search Culture
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This was a multi-alarm fire, but this specific piece of it was one of the structures involved — a triplex. This is Apartment A. We made entry with a can. We located fire in the bedroom and I made the call that it was a can job. I went into the bedroom, confined myself inside, and my driver searched the rest of the apartment while being protected — protected by education, standards, a closed door, eyes on the fire, knowing the fire’s location, knowing the likely extension, water being applied to
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Maximize our efficiency with pre-assigned positions, pre-assigned tools and match the apparatus compartments to the assignments. | Search Culture
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FacebookSearch Culture
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Easy GO decision, with these conditions | Search Culture
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Recruits first search inside a building. They enter windows with two, go beyond the door, its high viz (they stay on their feet, meet in the hallway and walk out. | Search Culture
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Ground Ladder Highpoint Rescue Method
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How to Mask-Up with Gloves on under 15 seconds
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YouTubeSearch Culture
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“ves sounding”, how do you “sound” for structural integrity when you’re entering a window with furniture underneath it? we don’t | Search Culture
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