Battalion ‘Assignment’ System
Personnel, people working on-shift, could not be unbalanced within the neighborhood (battalion) in which you were assigned.
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THOSE FIRST DAYS ON THE JOB: ANYTHING BUT ROUTINE, Part 2
There were always lessons surrounding us whenever we were working.
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THOSE FIRST DAYS ON THE JOB: ANYTHING BUT ROUTINE, PART 1
“I can’t believe how easy it was to get to this roof,” my mind meandered as I “popped” out of the scuttle to the roof…
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A FEW “HISTORICAL” MOMENTS
Working for Captain Nolan was like working for an historical figure named Florian1—a great firefighter, an officer, a teacher, a leader, and a saint.
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IN THE BEGINNING
My father and my grandfather were firefighters. Both were a product of old traditional Irish heritage when it came to family.
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TALES FROM TRUCK 111
111 Truck. One-Eleven in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) was another truly unique place in which I was fortunate to have worked and…
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SAFETY, PART 2
We were talking about safe operations for responding and returning, and perhaps we should visit there for a little longer (a term I stole from…
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Safety
Most of you who know me understand that I am usually not impressed with statistics that seem to support an exciting or excitable subject that…
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STRATEGY IS NOT A STAND-ALONE CONCEPT
I reserved this space in this mag- azine 20 years ago to hang out with you and “shoot the breeze” about one predominant subject, operations-responding…
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STILL TALKIN’ IN THE KITCHEN ….
We have been talking (at least I was), about those tactics, tasks, and procedures that occur on most well-trained operations that support aggressive structure firefighting.
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RECRUIT ORIENTATION
Editor’s note: Here is “The Best of Brennan,” a column of Tom Brennan’s that appeared in the October 1988 issue and that still rings true…
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