Patrick Donald

family man firefighting wilderness junkie

[Yankees Pod 🎧 @YankeesPod]

If Aaron Judge hits a HR today someone who retweets and is following is winning a shirt. Comment your size. Let’s go Yankees.

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Winning Wednesday ☑️

#RepBX

[Flashpoint Equipment @FPequipment]

First arriving.

What are your first three assignments — and where?

🎥 Video Credit: North Little Rock Fire Department

#firebehavior #FireEducation

[Fire Engineering @fireengineering]

Rigs lined up outside a funeral home in Chicago’s southwest suburbs on a gray and rainy Tuesday morning for the funeral of Firefighter Michael Altman, who died while working to put out a Rogers Park fire. #LODD

https://t.co/t2ldcMyCH3

[Flashpoint Equipment @FPequipment]

Door forced.

Smoke movement changes.

What does it tell you?

🎥 Video Credit: hunter.mcclary.54

#firebehavior #FireEducation

[Flashpoint Equipment @FPequipment]

Rowhouse entry.

What indicators tell you this is a basement fire?

🎥 Video Credit: BCFD Engine 33 & Truck 5

#firebehavior #flowpath #FireEducation

[Kevin F. Burns @Burns227]

Adapted from an old Greek proverb. Pass on what you know. Help a young fireman become a great fireman. I almost think it should be part of the oath we take when we get on the job.

[Rockland Buff @Rockland_Buff]

New city. structure fire, with possible entrapment, 71 Carolina Dr, New City FD, Hillcrest FD, & West Nyack FD dispatched

[Wildwood Fire Dept. @TheShoreHouse38]

https://t.co/LLOdaiGlII

[Boston Fire Rescue Co. 2 @BFDRescue2]

#WeNeverForget #LODD #BostonFire #BostonFirefighters #BFDLadder15 #BFDEngine33

[Fire Engineering @fireengineering]

A federal review identified multiple issues in a 2025 DeKalb County warehouse fire that contributed to a firefighter's death. #LODD

https://t.co/omv8TDkNAu

[Fire Engineering @fireengineering]

WEBINAR TODAY, 1 pm ET:
https://t.co/xKFcXv5gnB
Grant Writing for Emergency Services
-with David Hesselmeyer

Fire departments do not receive funding like they need. Some fire departments only have $5,000 for their annual budget. How they operate with such little funding is amazing. Other departments may have larger operating budgets, but that normally comes with larger needs to provide services to a larger number of constituents. Grants can be a good option to help achieve projects that may not otherwise be funded. However, a major issue with grants is that people are not aware of the process and often follow myths vs. facts.

This webinar will focus on the art of the grant writing process and how to be successful. It will dispel myths, explain the overall process, and give helpful hints as to how to increase your chances of obtaining grant funding.

[Flashpoint Equipment @FPequipment]

Attic fire.

Flashover risk.

Where do you want to be standing when it happens?

🎥 Video Credit: unknown (DM for credit or removal)

#firebehavior #FireEducation

[Flashpoint Equipment @FPequipment]

Water works.

The key:

Get it there fast.
Place it correctly.

🎥 Video Credit: Matthew Gandy

#firebehavior #FireEducation

[National Fire Training @NationalFireUS]

Making the push up stairs— remember do not block the stairs or stand on them.

Stairs are for going up or down no place to stand if blocked think to yourself wouldn’t be great if the fire service had ladders?
https://t.co/OyN1jSY3bl

[Kevin F. Burns @Burns227]

1) Retired Baltimore City FF Ray Lockett with advice for the rookies: There is a time for play but there's a time for work, and don't get the two confused because the work is serious. It literally can be life & death. Also, listen to the senior men.

[Patrick Donald @Patrick_Donald_]

@RobustFeed @Gymvibe_ Nope

[Patrick Donald @Patrick_Donald_]

@MichaelRapaport Those cars haven’t moved because they are to lazy to dig it out . Move the cars so the plows can plow .

[Patrick Donald @Patrick_Donald_]

@ThatEricAlper You said you’d never live past 25, I say stay long enough to repay all those who cause strife
L.S. AIC