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		<title>Lt. Peter B. Lund</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year goes by without our great friend and mentor Lt. Peter Lund. We at Traditions Training miss our co-founder each and everyday. His wisdom, experience and humor made learning from and teaching with Pete a great experience for all firefighters, fire officers and fellow instructors. He could easily relate to the youngest probie and the tenured veteran all at the same time. All would come away from class further educated and ‘combat ready’ for the next incident. In order to continue to pass along his message, we pay homage to him in all the classes that we teach. It...]]></description>
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		<title>ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Larry Schultz I will start of with a brief recap of my last blog. I began with a contemplative question that challenged the value of our thoughts and trends, as they relate to risk assessment on the fireground. I opined, that we might be defaulting to a “risk avoidance” strategy because we were falling to acknowledge the other causes that make firegrounds go bad. I then suggested that the fire service as a whole has done a poor job of offering a subjective and systematic way of assessing risk on the fireground. In every class I teach, I ask...]]></description>
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		<title>OLD WORDS, NEW LESSONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OLD WORDS, NEW LESSONS- There are literally hundreds of thousands of trade magazines and books pertaining to the fire service. Some more relevant than others. Sometimes, our greatest lessons can come from articles that were written decades ago. The trick is to find these golden treasures. Over the past several years, I have been fortunate to have been given a number of these age old publications. As I&#8217;ve skimmed through nearly all of them, I can&#8217;t help but notice that they have GREAT articles about basic firefighting skills. Something that I believe has been lost or poorly upheld in this...]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE &#8220;LINE&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIFE &#8220;LINE&#8221;- Everyone has different &#8220;pipes&#8221; aka nozzles on their apparatus. But, they all have one thing in common. All of them distribute some type of extinguishing agent (usually water) to suppress fire. How often do you check these appliances to assure they are FULLY functional? One malfunction, due to complacency could end-up a fatal or near fatal mistake. In a lot of departments, it is EVERYONE&#8217;S responsibility to make sure the nozzles are &#8220;combat ready&#8221; at all times. Every time a new driver assumes his/her role they get checked. Every time a &#8220;backstep&#8221; or &#8220;bucket&#8221; person assumes their position...]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing With the Issue of Risk in the Fire Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dealing With the Issue of Risk In the Fire Service There are few jobs, which expose it’s employees (career or volunteer) to risk more then the fire service. The risks we face have caused line-of-duty deaths exceeding 100 per year and injury rates that exceed 38,000 per year. Todays fire service expectations are unmatched in the types of service we are expected to deliver. Along with that increased expectation, comes a correlating increase in the complexity of the risk we face. Webster’s dictionary defines risk as someone or something that creates or suggests hazard. By nature, the very work we...]]></description>
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		<title>Craving Realism in Fire Training&#8230;. Danny Doyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craving Realism in Fire Training? Department SOP’s, classes, blogs, forums, articles, and firehouse kitchen tables are just some of the places that fire service training has been discussed. However, discussion only gets us so far! There’s a ton of great places to seek online information along with trade journals and texts but one fact remains! The fire ground isn’t surrounding a round table with well dressed firefighters to discuss opinionated topics. The fire ground should be experienced well protected firefighters. I say protected because they should be practicing a “Combat Ready” philosophy. Which is an all encompassing professional attitude screaming...]]></description>
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		<title>Check your Dance Card Part 3: &#8220;The Dance&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s on&#8230; &#160; We have been leading up to our dance with this &#8220;beauty of fire&#8221; in both Part 1 and Part 2 of &#8220;Check your Dance Card.&#8221;  Feel free to go back and take notes as we journey closer and closer to this &#8216;beauty.&#8217;  We have discussed cues and clues to help us not get burned, things to note&#8230; both outside the fire building and on our way up to the fire floor. &#160; Now is the moment we have been waiting for.  It is time to dance&#8230; this &#8220;beauty&#8221; can wait no more, it&#8217;s time to find her.  Excited?  Yes, but we...]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Storefront FE: Don&#8217;t Just Break the Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it can safely be said that every response area in this country has unique challenges, the commercial storefront is one that is present in almost all areas.  Forcible entry into these buildings is not necessarily difficult, but present some unique considerations and thinking points.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Moments &amp; A Forcible Entry Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things we always talk about regarding staying "combat ready" is using every opportunity as a learning/teaching moment.  We have an opportunity on every routine run to look at the buildings in our response area and size-up their challenges.  This allows us to think about solutions in advance.  The more of these ideas (tools) you have in your brain (toolbox) makes it more likely you'll have the "right sized wrench" to fit the problem when you encounter it in stressful conditions during a fire.]]></description>
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		<title>Extending Leverage on Outward Doors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's common that residential buildings will feature mostly inward opening doors, while commercial buildings will feature more outward opening doors.  While the the technique for outward opening doors may be, I won't say easier but more straightforward than an inward door, they may actually require a little more "force".  Outward doors on commercial buildings are likely to be set in brick or concrete, consist of strong metal doors and frames, and may have multiple or higher security locking devices.]]></description>
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