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Backdraft and Mayday! – Part 2 (Episode 250)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Checklists, Close Call, Cognitive Memory, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Frustration, Gut Feeling, Intuition, Judgment, Mayday, Miscommunications, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, Response Time Delays, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress, Teamwork, understaffing, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 2 of a 3-part interview with the incident commander from the German Township Fire Department who was in charge of a residential dwelling fire where a backdraft occurred followed by a Mayday call. Length: 40 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If […]

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Backdraft and Mayday! – Part 1 (Episode 249)

This episode is part 1 of a 3-part interview with the incident commander from the German Township Fire Department who was in charge of a residential dwelling fire where a backdraft occurred followed by a Mayday call. Length: 67 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If

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Top Ten Near-Miss Interviews (SAM 248)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Automation, Benchmarks, Biases, Bravado, Building Construction, Checklists, Close Call, Cognitive Memory, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Competency, Complacency, Confabulation, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Educational Products, Ego, Emotions, Equipment, Error Creep, Excited, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Fatigue, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Gasaway Consulting Group, Goals, Gut Feeling, Habits, Hallucinations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Line of Duty Death, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I recap the events surrounding our most downloaded near-miss interviews in the history of the show. Length: 33 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level, check

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7 ways to accelerate learning (Episode 243)

Leave a Comment / Automatic Action, Checklists, Close Call, Cognitive Memory, Competency, Decision Making, Expectations, Goals, Habits, Intuition, Judgment, Line of Duty Death, Long-Term Memory, Mental Models, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Training, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores 7 ways to accelerate your knowledge acquisition through purposeful development of cognitive scripts. Length: 28 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level, check out the Situational

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Episode 242 | Eric Dreiman Interview – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Automatic Action, Close Call, Communications, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Equipment, Expectations, Interruptions, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Near Miss, Preoccupation, Radios, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This is part 2 of a 2-part story about an amazing near-miss event where, if their decision to exit was delayed by only a few seconds, it would have likely resulted in a double line-of-duty death. Length: 42 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you

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SAM 241 | Eric Dreiman Interview – Part 1

This is part 1 of a 2-part story about an amazing near-miss event where, if their decision to exit was delayed by only a few seconds, it would have likely resulted in a double line-of-duty death. Length: 38 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you

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Episode 240 | Jason Corthell Interview

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Automatic Action, Close Call, Communications, Decision Making, Equipment, Expectations, Interruptions, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Near Miss, Preoccupation, Radios, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Cypress Creek Lieutenant Jason Corthell shares his close call survival story where he was operating on the second floor of an exterior stairwell at an apartment building fire. The stairwell, not involved in fire at all, unexpectedly collapsed, trapping Lieutenant Corthell and District Chief Sanchez under tons of steel and concrete. A

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Episode 238 | Ken Prillaman Interview

This episode is a flashback episode where Fire Chief Ken Prillaman shared his near-miss story where complacency at an EMS call almost resulted in a catastrophe. Length: 45 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Episode 237 | Brian Schaeffer Interview

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This episode is a flashback episode where Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer shared his near-miss story at a commercial building fire in Spokane, Washington. Length: 56 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision

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Episode 236 | John Dantuono Interview

This episode is a flashback episode where Firefighter John Dantuono shared his near-miss story where he was saved from falling though a roof by his SCBA bottle. Length: 43 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational

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