HARV Salinas

[Douglas Cline @dcline11]

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run or control others using fear and intimidation to get results, but someone who is compassionate, caring and diligently focused on people so that they can have opportunities to be successful. @fireengineering @ChiefBruno @FDICevent

[FirefighterCloseCall @TheSecretList]

SEARCH! As crews were stretching in, they saw this. Fire located in the back of the convenience store. This victim identifies as “Smokey” 😉 we search for everyone-scary or not. @TheSecretList @IAFC @IAFFofficial #workingfire #search #victims #firefighters #firefighter

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

#ThePharrFireDepartment #firefighters #RioGrandeValley

Looking good fellas. Keep up the awesome work!

[Stockton Fire @stocktonfire]

Engine 5 arrived first due with a working garage fire. Working quickly, the Firefighter stretches the attack line and masks up. The Captain joins him at the interior man-door to the garage and makes a knock on the fire within minutes of arrival. Great job.

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

@nchlsgarcia Yes sir I was able to participate in those live fire trainings, the good old days🙂, with all the old timers,
ed, bob, lowe, roger, melson, peteo, ray, man the list goes on jj. lmao good times

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

#firefighters#training#texas

Beautiful night to burn!!! Good job guys!!!

[NatlVolFireCouncil @NVFC]

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[FDNY @FDNY]

A major operational challenge for the FDNY during cold weather is frozen hydrants caused by freezing temperatures.

To prevent water from freezing in these hydrants across the city, the FDNY has specialized thawing apparatus trucks in each of the five boroughs.

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

@charliekirk11 Go to pharr texas at the intersection of Veterans road and old businesses 83 you will see that the border wall has been rusting away for the last 4 years. That is our tax money going to waste.

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

ACC Fire Academy
Good job Captain
#firefighting

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

Yep.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

take care of yur table

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

@nchlsgarcia Bird bird bird. good shot

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

@nchlsgarcia Awesome guys!!

[The Secret Firefighter UK @TheSecretFF999]

Good example of a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion), location unknown, if you have any details on this one please comment below or DM me.

[AndyStarnesFire @KTFBurnsDC]

Not Opening The Nozzle Until We See Fire?

The following citation comes from Section 7.2 UL Research Study Impact of Fire Attack Utilizing Interior & Exterior Stream on Firefighter Safety & Occupant Survival: Full Scale Experiments

“The concepts that structural protective gear will protect a firefighter as they advance to the compartment of origin without applying water and that applying water prior to reaching the compartment will have negative consequences does not fit with what is known about modern fuel loads and fire development.

Additionally, the thought that a suppression crew must be in the compartment before applying water is just not practical.

The compartment of origin becomes untenable for firefighters in full protective gear once it reaches flashover. All bedroom fires reached flashover well before the initial fire department actions were performed. Often flashover is occurring within 4-4.5 minutes of ignition.

Entering the compartment before applying water would have resulted in significant injury, if not death, to any firefighter even in if they were wearing full protective gear.

When interior attack was chosen over applying water through the venting ‘A’ side window, conditions outside the compartment were just as severe as a flashed-over compartment in terms of thermal assault to firefighters. The heat flux and temperature fall within the emergency range of their structural turnout gear, where injury is likely and the gear’s ability to protect the firefighter is decreased or non-existent. For the single vent and two vent configurations tested, even halfway down the hallway the heat flux and temperature exceeded the ordinary operating range of structural turnout gear.

When conducting an interior attack, the suppression crew should cool as they advance. The effect of this is shown in Figure 7.27 where water application during advancement down the hallway reduces the thermal threat to firefighters in full PPE to a level where injury is less likely. Utilizing a smooth bore nozzle or combination nozzle set to straight stream will achieve the greatest reach while limiting the air movement. As the crew advances toward the fire they should cool, either using a “flow and move” technique or a “shutdown and move” technique. If they intend to move products of combustion ahead of their position, they should consistently move the nozzle in a pattern (‘O’, ‘T’, ‘Z’, ‘n’), keeping in mind that the faster the nozzle is moved the more it will move."

Thank you Fire Safety Research Institute

Stay Intelligently Aggressive!

Read the full report here:

https://t.co/GEDiPG0wFa

Teledyne FLIR

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

Be safe. be smart.

Risk vs reward is it there?

That fire is well advance and chance of occupants surviving are very slim. That is just the reality of our job to make hard decisions. Don't be a statistics! #firefighters

[The Secret Firefighter UK @TheSecretFF999]

Would be interested in hearing the thoughts of our American colleagues on this one, as a British firefighter this doesn’t look like a safe practice at all.

[HARV Salinas @HARVSalinas]

What overtime who called in sick!..

[Fire Dept. Coffee @firedeptcoffee]

What is going on here? Best answer wins a 12 oz bag of Original Medium Roast.

#FireDeptCoffee #Coffee #Firefighter

[Billy Goldfeder @BillyGoldfeder]

Get Checked. PSA. Digital. All Of It. Just do it. You’ll never regret getting it done, regardless. @FCSNnational @IAFC_SHS @IAFFofficial @IAFC @NVFC @1stresponderctr @usfire @LifeScanSaves @FireRescue1 @fireengineering @firenation @FirehouseNews Check Out: https://t.co/5qFt2zquJO

[Billy Goldfeder @BillyGoldfeder]

Firefighter Close Calls: Not a Waste—The Tale of a CNG Garbage Truck Fire
https://t.co/oRTtz6acsP @IAFC_SHS @IAFC @TheSecretList @IAFCHazmatFC @Firefrank76 #Firefighters #Firefighter #CNG #garbagetruck