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Thornton Fire Mayday Story – Part 2 (Episode 257)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Auditory exclusion, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Close Call, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Expectations, Experience, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Miscommunications, Over Confident, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Radios, Risk, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Size Up, Staffing, Task Fixation, Teamwork /

This interview is part 2 of a 3-part series detailing the events surrounding Thornton Fire-Medic Roy Lapid mayday call, rescue from the basement and lessons learned. Length: 57 minutes     Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO     __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk […]

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Thornton Fire Mayday Story. Part 1 (Episode 256)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Close Call, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Expectations, Experience, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Miscommunications, Over Confident, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Radios, Risk, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Size Up, Staffing, Task Fixation, Teamwork /

This interview is part 1 of a 3-part series detailing the events surrounding Thornton Fire-Medic Roy Lapid mayday call, rescue from the basement and lessons learned. Length: 68 minutes     Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO     __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk

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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 /

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

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 /

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 /

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

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 /

  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

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

  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

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 /

  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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Episode 235 | Richard Marcus Interview

Leave a Comment / 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 /

This episode is a flashback episode where Firefighter Richard Marcus recounts the day the apparatus he was riding in struck a tree while returning from a call. Length: 44 minutes     Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO         __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational

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Episode 226 | New Carlisle FD LODD Review

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Error Creep, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Information overload, Interruptions, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Muscle Memory, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Personnel location, Repetition, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Teamwork, Tunnel Vision, Workload Management /

  This episode is a review of the lessons learned from the August 5, 2014 structure fire incident that killed Assistant Fire Chief Jamie Middlebrook. Length: 36 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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