Tag Archives: Paramedic

As you know, Willie Wines Jr., Kevin Totten, and I climbed 110 stories as a part of the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at Firehouse Expo. We climbed with 320 others, some of whom we knew already and others who we met for the first time. The event was a huge success. All I can really say is that you have to participate in one to really understand.

The difference between us and them was that we did it in honor of them. We did it without an airpack, without fear, without trepidation. We did it to help others never forget.

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In case you just crawled out of a rock, the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins 4-0 in game 7. In a huge showing of poor sportsmanship and sore losers, some a lot of piss-poor Vancouver Canucks fans took to the streets rioting and wrecking their town. Makes sense doesn't it? Not exactly. Here is some video of what firefighters had to deal with in Vancouver...

At 6 minutes in, there is talk about backing out because they don't have water supply set up....and then there is radio traffic about needing EMS because they have a firefighter trapped and not out of the building yet.

A Muncie, Indiana Firefighter was killed today battling a church fire at the Tabernacle of Praise Church . Details are still coming in as to what exactly happened. What we do know is that a firefighter has been killed. It is another sad day in the fire service.

June 2, 2011 is a tragic day for San Francisco Firefighters. Lt. Vincent Perez was killed battling a blaze in the Diamond Heights area of San Francisco. Lt. Perez, 48, was a 21 year veteran of the fire service. Rest in Peace.

Incident Command, lack of communication, lack of doing a 360, and freelancing among other things that culminated with 7 firefighters injured. Some of those firefighters jumped from the second or third floor balconies.

Don't do it! Don't watch this video of a medic complaining about his partner. I made it to the 2:46 mark and my ears started bleeding. Is this really what Medics talk about when they get around each other?

Firefighter Mark Falkenhan was overcome in flashover conditions on the third floor at a 4 alarm fire in Baltimore County. He was rescued by fellow firefighters and died at the hospital. Firefighters rescued two occupants during the fire. Mark Falkenhan was a firefighter, a paramedic, a husband, and a father.