• Drill of the Week: Ice Rescue Incident
  
  Use this basic response scenario to discuss how your first-arriving equipment would handle a victim-in-the-water incident following your department SOGs and, if possible, using your available equipment for a dress-out drill.
• Drill of the Week: Crew Safety Scenarios
  
  This firefighter training drill is a series of questions that relate to crew and company safety issues a company officer may come across during his career. Play these scenarios out as if they are happening at this moment within your crew.
• Drill of the Week: Mentoring Program
  
  Preparing your successor is a leadership principle that all members of the organization should strive for. This drill reviews 10 ways to mentor someone who aspires or is moving up to the next level of responsibility.
• Fire Behavior & Building Construction Drill: Single Family, A-side
  
  Using the information gleaned from the photo in this week's drill, determine your size-up and initial incident plan functions based on your knowledge of building construction and fire behavior.

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  Construction Concerns: Overhaul
  
  A basic knowledge of interior building finishes and how they are attached can greatly aid you in performing overhaul. Greg Havel reviews these features and suggests approaches to removing or cutting them.
  
  
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  Construction Concerns: Wood Trusses
  
  Wood trusses, a common component of modern construction, may have been modified without approval, posing a collapse hazard. Learn more about this element of building construction from Gregory Havel.
  
  
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  Construction Concerns: Knob and Tube Wiring
  
  In this building construction column, Greg Havel discusses an early method of wiring buildings for electricity and which you may find still being used in older housing stock.
  
  
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  Construction Concerns: Sprinkler Water Supply
  
  The most common water supply for an automatic fire sprinkler system is by a connection to a city water system. Gregory Havel takes a closer look at this element of building construction.
  
  
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  The Texas City Disaster
  
  For National Fire Prevention Week, Gregory Havel takes a look at an incident in which the fire service had to deal with a massive situation far beyond its normal scope: The Texas City Disaster of 1947.
  
  

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  Fire Engineering Simulation: Bedroom Fire
  
  Take control of the fireground in this free online simulation. Practice ventilation and positive pressure operations at a structure fire. Includes training documents like a size-up guide and sample scenario.
  
  
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  Fire Engineering Simulation: Deli Fire
  
  Check out a free interactive simulation that lets you train on tactical decision making at a taxpayer deli fire. Features supplementary training documents including size-up tips and comprehensive control sheet.
  
  
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  Pump Operator Simulation: The Basics
  
  This simulation provides you with a set of basic skill exercises for your drivers/pump operators, from apparatus inspection to operating the pump panel.
  
  
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  Commercial Taxpayer Fire Simulation
  
  It is a cold, clear, dry Sunday in March. Dispatch reports that callers see smoke coming out of a vacant property on the corner of 128th Ave. and Harmony. The vacant property adjoins several commercial businesses...
  
  
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  Hazmat simulation: Automobile vs. Tank Car
  
  It is a cold Fall morning. Dispatch receives a call from a bystander that an automobile has collided with a tank car...
  
  

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