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FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
Our top course offers the most realistic and much needed training on fires in vacant and abandoned buildings. There is NO OTHER course offered like #TheOccupiedVacant
With so much misinformation and ignorance out there on these target hazard occupancies, we've created the most relevant and realistic and extremely thorough course offered throughout the entire U.S.
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BASEMENT FIRES
FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
We're going to fires in basements and cellars. They are the most deadliest area of the structure. This course is an A-Z for below grade fires using actual helmet cam video, real experiences, close calls, and countering some myths. Engine/Truck/Proactive RIT/FAST operations are the focus. This course is the real deal, and what's desperately needed for an effective and beneficial experience for all.
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WHY CONSTRUCTION MATTERS
FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS
WHY CONSTRUCTION MATTERS
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This course doesn't waste time with irrelevant jibberish on the 5 types of construction. We focus on combustible construction as it relates to FIRE, the buildings model and its features as they will help set the stage for our strategy and tactics. Customized for areas with old historical buildings, lightweight etc..
Upon completion, you won't have to 'look' for sizeup indicators, they'll jump out at you.
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URBAN HIGHRISE FIRES
TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
WHY CONSTRUCTION MATTERS
Not all highrises are the same. The urban residential highrise is different and 'extra.'
The focus of this course concentrates on preparedness for overcoming many of the typical problems these residential buildings have including lack of protection systems.
From the boiler room to the penthouse.
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TARGET HAZARD VEHICLES
TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
There are vehicle fires, and there are target hazard vehicle fires. Modern day vehicle fires are far more dangerous and require a thorough sizeup and knowledge of the dangers presented when they're burning. From SUV's to CNG transit buses, this course covers the hazards and operations to deal with.
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TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
TOP FLOOR JOBS: ATTIC AND COCKLOFT FIRES
Top floor fires require some unique and specific tactics for a successful outcome. From the single family to the attached rowhome, living space attics with peaked roofs or common cocklofts and flat roofs, strategies and tactics will differ greatly. Fire attack, ventilation, search, overhaul, and exposures are the focus.
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RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
High speed commuter, light rail, third rail, catenary, diesel locomotive, multiple units, tunnels, bridges, transit stations, and electrified territory. Many departments have rail that runs through their response areas. They must prepare for these high risk/low frequency incidents beyond the annual local rail awareness safety course. That won't cut it.. Got rail?
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URBAN TACTICS SEMINAR
RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
Our most requested event for those who have interest in various topics and of course, cutting through the bullshit being peddled by the modern day fire service. Urban tactics and the unorthodox tactics created in the field can be applied in almost any environment.
This seminar is popular all over the U.S. for a nights of brotherhood, fundraisers, or finishing off training days with beers & street knowledge.
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SERVICE STATION FIRES
RAPID TRANSIT EMERGENCIES
SERVICE STATION FIRES
An often neglected subject of training this course focuses on fires at service stations, filling stations, auto repair, auto body, auto parts, car dealerships, junkyards and the new big box-connivence stores with gas pumps. This unique yet educational presentation is filled with must-know information for all firemen from the probie to the Chief. See article in Fire Engineering, Preplanning Service Stations (scroll down)
HOTEL AND MOTEL FIRES
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
SERVICE STATION FIRES
Hotel vs Motel: There are MAJOR differences. From building construction, protection systems and elevators to fire attack, search, ladders and entry, this is beneficial to fire departments with lodging in their response area. This course can be included with our customized seminars. See article in Fire Engineering (scroll down)
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
Fires in rowhomes, and attached structures, exposures with living space attics, cocklofts, and mainly type 3-5 construction, especially rowframes.
COURSE OFFERINGS
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
URBAN ROWHOMES: ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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FDIC 2022 Indianapolis
The Occupied Vacant: Fires in Vacant and Abandoned Buildings
Fires in Vacant and Abandoned Buildings: Room: 109-110
Thursday, April 28, 2022: 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
URBAN TACTICS SEMINAR: JUNE 21st NEWBURGH NY
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TWIN PEAKS SHENANDOAH TX (THE WOODLANDS)
DENVER CO
OCTOBER 2022
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UPCOMING EVENTS 2022
OKLAHOMA COWBOY FIRE CONFERENCE MARCH 18-19 2022
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FDIC INDY 2022 THURSDAY APRIL 28TH 1:30 PM RM 109-110 "THE OCCUPIED VACANT" FIRES IN VACANT AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS PRESENTED BY BRIAN BUTLER
MARCH 2022: TROY NY, OKLAHOMA CITY OK
APRIL 2ND: WINCHESTER, FREDRICK CO VA
MAY 2022: CONNECTICUT, NC
FDIC INDY 2021
FDIC INDY 2021
FDIC INDY 2021
Rapid Transit Emergencies Friday August 6th 2021 8:30 AM -10AM
Rm 102-103
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/N5AaYoJ1Xa0
CAPE MAY NJ
FDIC INDY 2021
CAPE MAY NJ
#AfiremanWalksIntoAbar "Cheerleading Ain't Gonna Put The Fire Out"
Postponed to 2021
ATLANTA
ST PETERSBURGH FL
CAPE MAY NJ
North-South Urban Engine Truck Ops
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PITTSBURGH PA
ST PETERSBURGH FL
ST PETERSBURGH FL
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"Vacant on a Hill" Hands on Aquired Structure Training. Event over..
ST PETERSBURGH FL
ST PETERSBURGH FL
ST PETERSBURGH FL
Urban Engine Truck Ops
POSTPONED- Reschedule Feb 2021
ATLANTA
NEW KENSINGTON PA
NEW KENSINGTON PA
#aFiremanWalksIntoAbar Urban Tactics
NEW KENSINGTON PA
NEW KENSINGTON PA
NEW KENSINGTON PA
Fire in Vacant and Abandoned Buildings
WILDWOOD NJ
NEW KENSINGTON PA
JEANETTE CITY PA
"Traditions Don't Die" Seminar
JEANETTE CITY PA
JEANETTE CITY PA
JEANETTE CITY PA
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#TheOccupiedVacant: Fires in Vacant and Abandoned Buildings
ARLINGTON VA
JEANETTE CITY PA
ASBURY PARK NJ
#aFiremanWalksIntoAbar
Urban Engine/Truck Ops
ASBURY PARK NJ
JEANETTE CITY PA
ASBURY PARK NJ
Boardwalk Fire Conference: "Outgunned and First Due" Undermanned Engine.
Cancelled due to Covid19
JOHNSTOWN PA
MAHANOY CITY PA
MAHANOY CITY PA
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MAHANOY CITY PA
MAHANOY CITY PA
MAHANOY CITY PA
Urban Engine Truck Ops
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EWING NJ
MAHANOY CITY PA
GLASSPORT PA
Elevator Awareness:
Transportation Machinery. Event over..
GLASSPORT PA
GLASSPORT PA
GLASSPORT PA
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GLASSPORT PA
GLASSPORT PA
Efficiency & Productivity on the Fireground
Urban Tactics, Suburban Departments
Course Description: Many suburban and rural areas have seen a major increase in population, industry, infrastructure, public transportation, housing, retail, and traffic over the last 30 years. Rural areas have become suburban while suburban areas have become metropolitan areas outside of urban areas or big cities. Many fire departments that were once all volunteer organizations producing low run numbers have now become career or combination departments as the number of fire and rescue calls (and tax base) have increased. They have also added technical rescue, special ops and EMS to provided services.
These departments range from 24/7 fully staffed to understaffed during the night and weekends, some covering a large district spanning many square miles. One department may only be staffed Monday-Friday during the day while others are staffed with only paid drivers or a two-person crew. Some volunteer departments offer a "duty crew" stipend at night or a live-in program for quicker response times.
Suburban departments have essentially become city departments with city problems. Outside of numerous vacant dilapidated abandoned buildings, skyscrapers, subways, project apartments, and shootings, suburban departments are now dealing with more high-rises, mid-rises, elevators, garden apartments, condominiums, townhomes, estate homes, strip malls, big box stores, modern building construction, high speed and light rail trains, high traffic volume-rescue incidents, and an increased population creating far more run numbers than 20-30 years ago. But unlike the cities where there are dedicated truck, squad, rescue, and engine companies fully staffed with 2-6 members on each apparatus 24/7 every several blocks, most suburban, volunteer, combination departments may be riding short staffed and relying on mutual aid. In addition, as call volume increases, volunteer numbers have declined dramatically over the years resulting in less members responding, and some riding members may lack training or experience. Consider budget issues, and longer response times waiting for members to respond to the station on a weekday when many have full time jobs. For fires, this can be dangerous because of longer burn times. How can we overcome some of these issues? What common emergencies do urban and suburban firefighters respond to on a daily basis, and how do we accomplish more with less?
This customized course focuses on the common strategy and tactics that urban, suburban, and metropolitan departments all face but with different apparatus and staffing levels.
Efficiency vs Productivity
Courtesy of Setapp.com:
Productivity and efficiency are two of the key goals of any business enterprise. But they are two very different things and often compete with each other. Improved productivity can come at the expense of efficiency and improved efficiency can reduce productivity. But what is the difference between them?
Put simply, productivity is the quantity of work produced by a team, business or individual. Efficiency, on the other hand, refers to the resources used to produce that work. So, the more effort, time or raw materials required to do the work, the less efficient the process.
Efficiency can also refer to the quality of the output. Producing 100 widgets an hour may look good on a productivity spreadsheet, but it’s not very efficient if half of them are rejected because they don’t meet quality standards.
Harvard Study of Efficiency vs Productivity.
Courtesy of Harvard Business Review:
FEATURED ARTICLES
Fire in Hotels and Motels: There is a Difference...
By Brian Butler Fire Engineering Magazine January 2019 issue
Ventilating Attic Fires With Solar Panels.
By Brian Butler- Feature: Fire Engineering
Why Fires Are Down, And Why That's Bad For New Firefighters.
By Brian Butler UrbanFireTraining Blog
Preplanning Service Stations: Knowing the Hidden Hazards
By Brian Butler April 2019 issue Fire Engineering
Rapid Transit Emergencies
By Brian Butler September 2018 Issue Firehouse Magazine
The Urban Attic: The 'Upside Down' Basement Fire
By Brian Butler Fire Engineering Magazine: April 2018 Issue
Marking Death Traps: Hazardous "Occupied" Vacants
Marking Vacant and Abandoned Structures
By Brian Butler- New Article at Firehouse.Com
March 2018 issue of Fire Magazine
Extended post on UrbanFireTraining Blog
EDITORIAL: The Art of the "Handjob"
IF YOU HAVE THIN SKIN, YOU MIGHT WANT TO AVOID READING THIS…
In almost every fire station in America lurks the “handjob."
So what are some signs of the handjob? He's the guy who...
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Fires in "Occupied" Vacant and Abandoned Buildings
By Brian Butler
This is also an excellent course for ALL firefighters and company officers that is being offered in early spring 2019 for your department, conference or seminar.
Vacant properties used to be an inner-city problem but that is no longer the case. Suburban and metropolitan areas have seen an increased presence of abandoned residential and vacant commercial properties. Many of these buildings are not only prone to fires, they’re occupied by drug users, gangs, copper thieves, squatters, and vagrants. These properties may be structurally unstable with holes in the floors, open roofs, rotted floor decking, fortified board ups, window bars, and the scene of prior burns. In addition, firefighters may have to navigate broken glass, tires, needles, and hoarding conditions. We can’t always assume that these buildings are unoccupied and go defensive. This presentation focuses on size-up, locating victims, unique rapid search and rescue options, savvy laddering and bridging, forcible entry, safe aggressive strategies and methodical tactics.
Related article: https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/article/12389383/marking-vacant-and-abandoned-buildings
Book now- urbanfiretraining@gmail.com
March 2019 Issue Firehouse Magazine
Featured Preview of "The 'Occupied' Vacant." Fires with Entrapment in Vacant, Abandoned, and Hazardous Buildings, Presented by Brian Butler, City of Trenton NJ and Xavier Ricci, City of Stockton CA. Firehouse World March 25th-28th, 2019. Also catch Brian and Xavier on Wednesday and Thursday presenting "Elevators, Trains and Target Hazard Automobiles" Sizing up Transportation Machinery and Truck Company Ops "VES" Visit www.firehouseworld for more.
Transportation Machinery
By Brian Butler and Mark Gregory: September 2019 issue of Fire Engineering. "Elevators, Trains. Automobiles" Passenger Occupied Transportation Machinery.
Chimney Fires
By Brian Butler December 202 issue of Fire Engineering Magazine.
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"We're Not Robots, We're Movie Stars"
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
There's more than one way to fight a fire, supply water, perform a rescue. Remember, you're always being filmed and uploaded for all to see.
Click below to read this post on the Urban Fire Training blog.
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
By Brian Butler:
September issue Firehouse magazine.
Online article, click below.
Visit our Rapid Transit page for more content and video.
For this course, book here..
Getting the Most Out of The 270 Size-Up
Preparing for Rapid Tranist Emergencies
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Motel, Hotel Fires: Yes There Are Many Differences...
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Motel, Hotel Fires: Yes There Are Many Differences...
By Brian Butler:
January 2019 issue
Fire Engineering Magazine
Metal Awnings, Ground Ladders, and Rowhomes
Basement Fires Part 1, Part 2 Residential, Commercial
Motel, Hotel Fires: Yes There Are Many Differences...
Brian Butler offers some solutions when encountering metal awning obstructions:
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Chimney Fires
The "Occupied" Vacant
The "Occupied" Vacant
By Brian Butler
The "Occupied" Vacant
The "Occupied" Vacant
The "Occupied" Vacant
By Brian Butler
"Fires in 'Occupied' Vacant and Abandoned Buildings"
Coming Soon...
Service Station Fires
The "Occupied" Vacant
Service Station Fires
By Brian Butler
Gas Stations, Body Shops, Auto Repair, Auto Parts, Junk Yards, Big Box & Convenience Store Fueling Stations. Vehicles, Hazmats, Explosives & People.
Temporary Standpipe
Fires in Parking Garages
Service Station Fires
Fires in Parking Garages
Fires in Parking Garages
Fires in Parking Garages
By Brian Butler
Machinery Size-up
Fires in Parking Garages
Fires in Parking Garages
September 2019 Issue Fire Engineering
