Nick Martin - Combat Ready Fire Training
Nick Martin - Combat Ready Fire Training
I am presently Chief of Operations for a fire department in North Carolina. Previously I served as the Chief of Training for the City of Columbia, South Carolina and as a Lieutenant with the District of Columbia Fire Department. My career began in 1994 in my hometown of Swarthmore, PA. Since then I have been privileged to be surrounded by great, motivated firefighters who have taught me everything I know. My passion is for firefighting excellence, driven by our uncompromisable responsibility for service to our citizens.
Since 2010 I have been privileged to present at FDIC as a classroom presenter and hands-on instructor. Since 2004 I have had the opportunity to travel the country and share thoughts, learn from others, and see many different ways of firefighting.
My goal is to pass on what was passed to me with the hopes that I can improve the skill and experiences of other firefighters. I am proud and honored to help organize this team of motivated, passionate firefighters.
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1:09 we ensured we not only have two loops on the back half of our preconnects, but that we placed the coupling in the second loop so we have the cleanest stretch possible. We did the same for the minuteman bundle on our shoulder as well, putting the coupling even with the nozzle, so when we rotate and drop for the final stretch, we have the coupling and the nozzle at the entry with us.
Stretch on everything. 😂😂
And upon Arrival someone says there isn't a problem, don't leave until YOU know that is the case.
Jackass 😅
That boy was MOVIN’
Moving with a purpose, absolutely. Running I disagree with. Seen too many injuries. 1. First in engine arrives at a fire, bucket firefighter jumps out right into a large mud puddle. Rolls and breaks his ankle. First in engine company is now effectively out of service. 2. Command officer doing a lap, falls into a hole on side Charlie, breaks his knee. IC is now out of the picture until another officer gets there to relieve him. Plus the additional resources needed to treat these guys. Again I’m not saying take your sweet time, but when you’re laden with 60 pounds of gear, a simple fall can be catastrophic and take not only you but your entire crew out of the game. Move with purpose and watch where you’re going and what you’re doing.
Respectfully would like to challenge your points: 1) has nothing to do with moving quickly but getting off the apparatus 2) Again falls back on the idea of doing it safely. If he’s moving quicker than he can process his surroundings that’s the problem. it isn’t moving but lack of preparation or going beyond your limitations
Love to hear it all. So many at my dept need it but won't do it.
I like that a lot. “Speed is not something we try to achieve, but its a byproduct of how good we are.”
Badass presentation again. Stay safe everyone.
NFPA rated sweats...
Preach it! Thats a lost art right there
Good presentation. I promise, stuff happens whether you're ready for it or not. A best practice is to organize your actions and resources ahead of what the fire is doing, or everything will be a reaction action.
That’s law❤
Great videos as always from western Maryland ✅✅
Really good information shared by all. Thanks to everyone tonight.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Make no mistake, Firefighters retire, quit, resign because they are on a FD that is not the FD that you want showing up at your house when a fire strikes. Chiefs of Department may talk a good game but more often than not are the source of the problem and not the driving force behind leading a department that is worthy of the whole “be the FD you want showing up, blah, blah, blah.”
Great video. Thanks Nick
If you listen to this and don’t give a thumbs up then you were probably too busy arguing with the fry manager!
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Thank you brothers I appreciate everything that you're doing It's helping me I cant thank you all enough 🤝❤️🔥💯🙏💪🏋♀️🏃♀️🤓📚
You gentlemen keep calling your engine a wagon. It sounds like you have tank water. Why do you call it a wagon? Where I'm from, a wagon has a pump and hose. No tank water.
I have found it helpful for my RIT company do an initial 360 and as certain benchmarks are made, then the RIT officer can re-access what (if anything) they need to do.
Well spoken
Updated chief’s buggy tour
There’s no catch-all answer for whether you should or shouldn’t lay your own supply line. In a city with hydrants everywhere, the next engine on top of you within a couple minutes, an understanding that the second engine catches the hydrant and forward lays to the fire, and your engines are only staffed with three people, absolutely nothing wrong with using tank water and someone else catching the hydrant.
agreed brother
Being a shot staffed Engine Company but when I was an Engineer I would stretch to a hydrant 200 feet away. Because our mutual aid is volunteer and our closest staffed Company is 15-20 minutes away.
Will an updated version of how your truck is set up being coming out soon. Since you got a new chief’s vehicle?
What about aggressive vs non aggressive driving based on order arrival
In my humble opinion, the driver is the most important job.
I can’t even begin to tell you how cringy this is..
Cringy to the lazy
Cringy to the lazy
I wish I could have been a firefighter. I have asthma and was told I could never.
May say that they have pulled hose a million times, but their ability to pull the hose looks like crap.
Thanks for the interesting discussion and points to ponder! Never really thought about, for example, having that 2 nd engine sit on the hydrant, charge the 5" with its tank, then hook up to the hydrant. I like that idea. May not work out, if the first due dumped 1500' of 5"- but that isn't most fires. ( That's a hike to the scene for the crew! ) A neighbor has NO hydrants outside the village. So every fire out there involves drop tanks and a shuttle. They send both engines and the tanker right in- one jas attack, the other sets up the dump site and supplies the first. So they have both booster tanks, and the 1500 gal from their tanker for starters. They do have a truck, mostly for the village. Outside, its mostly a manpower mover and big toolbox. Most times, the layout of the scene does not lend itself to aerial ops- big setbacks, huge trees and wires, looong narrow drives- with a 5" hose running down them, etc. thus, its last due, there. The engines carry saws, ladders, etc, crews just use those.
So many variables... As you mentioned: what "tools" do you have RIGHT NOW? Then there's what needs done most- right now. And, there's the "fun" specifics of the location itself. ( Can you GET a truck into position at the fire in a iseful spot-or at all. Can you get ANY unit right up to the scene? You name the problem , somebody has it in their forst due.) With that said, here's how my local depts typically operate. We're nearly all volunteers, with a few single career guys or daytime staff. Thus, the option of dedicated companies is off the table. You do whatever the IC assigns you to do when you arrive. WE had a quint, and positioned it as a truck. However, where it was first due, as often as not that crew stretched the first line, and the next due would handle ladder ops. Or, youd do both if there were enough crew. ( First line and entry/ primary search). Obviously, this depended on the needs of that scene at that time. ( And WHO was on the rig- there were probies and exterior only members, too). Point is, just because you arrived on a truck doesnt mean you WILL be doing truck work, same for engines. A major point of departure from most career and combo depts. As for.initial attack, our SOP was for the first engine to lay into the scene, then supply handlines off tank water until the line was charged. We carry 1000 gal on each engine, and have a class a foam system. That buys you some breathing room. Unless directed to come strait in- then the supply line is the next emgine:s top priority. And, yes, we'd lay in with our quint! We also carried a bulk bed of med dia hose finished with a gated wye, and hose packs, as well as having a manifold in the rear compartment for reverse lays, when required. The quint has only 300 gal, and no foam, but used properly, can darken a surprising amount of fire. Just act accordingly, until more water arrives. We all have automatic mutual aid dispatched when we are to structure fires, and an automatic upgrade as soon as someone declares a working fire. And we all have multiple units. Help will be arriving continuously. ( We dont get many fires, so it's often surprising just how many guys show up, lol. We special called a Rescue to a fire- for its high pressure cascade system. The members HEARD " to the scene of a working fire!". They arrived with every seat filled- in a 12 person walk in. Everyone else, same thing. We HAD no manpower issues, lol) Non hydranted areas, of course, its tank water, and those get extra engines and tankers. ( We dont HAVE aircraft. A tanker is water on wheels). The more rural guys are VERY good at water supply ops. My new local dept takes that a step further: engines carry 1250 min, with gravity dumps, and we have a fast attack with CAFS. ( Rural community, with lots of farms, woods, and a very large mobil home park. Thus it pulls double duty as our brush truck, too) In these areas, all units are equipped to handle all basic fireground needs- the first in may be the only one able to get in close. Better to have it there, than have to packmule it up a 2000' driveway, right? That's our story: Yes! Tank water AND hydrants or shuttles. Depends on the fire.
Love this show, great stuff, Chief
Thank you!
Strong work!!!!!
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These are great for table talks!
Another great video. Now to persuade the old guard to be that aggressive to VES/ search without 4 FF's and handlines. New-age thinking for some departments.
Great video chief hope to see more videos of your department one fire ground.
Working on more!
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The Siamese Clapper vale system we in Ohio call it a Rual Hitch. We love it here in Ohio and where I'm working at, we and neighboring departments and county's.
Great podcast chief, farewell from western Maryland.
is that a kentland jacket with the tower ladder patch on the sleeve?
bad practice
Why?
Smooth operation 😙👌
Points are good, and good that we make them often. I have been on scenes with no command and no accountabiity practices. Many times, folks live to share what they did at a given scene. One scene had an entire Company injured, one mortally injured and passed the next day. After calls were made for MICU's some Company Officers ran around hunting their crew members because they were not together. So we should do the boring thing as a practice, and it has a greater chance of being used when it's needed.
Love the emphasis on fighting fire aggressively having providing for safety first goal. We all should be students of fire our whole career is my opinion.
We all know that the fires can boil water off pretty rapidly due to the heat just from the fire.
Same I have worked in 4 different states as a firefighter myself. I seen some places with 3 rigs an 2 jerry rigged pumps in a guys pick up truck. On the other hand I fought fires with some of the best wildland firefighters on assignments cutting line, and rolling out hose lays just feet way from them.
I really like your openness in the video at the start !
Chief, well said. I saw a shorter version from you. I have my FMO vehicle set up ready to go. It’s a work in progress, new tools to mount, trying to get a TIC, etc. We don’t carry air packs, we’re not a suppression agency, prevention only. I still take tips from you and use them.