Ground Ladder Operations: Training, Maintenance, and Firefighter Safety
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Ground Ladder Operations: Training, Maintenance, and Firefighter Safety

B1IntermediateOctober 15, 202646 min

Are your ground ladders ready when seconds count? Hosts Rick Lasky and John Salka discuss portable ladder maintenance, single-firefighter deployment, proper climbing angles, and proactive ladder placement to improve fireground safety. They also explore how historic fires, including the Great Chicago Fire, shaped fire prevention practices and modern building codes. This episode is brought to you by The Fire Store: TheFireStore.com

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Commercial building, a lot of fire, a lot of smoke, go ahead and strike a third alarm on my orders on this. We have people on the front fire station here with windows centered below them, we need somebody up there. Yeah, let them know we got a job and I'm pulling up now. Second alarm, I got a one story single family frame, heavy fire is shown from the attic.

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