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Bob Bourgeois
@rjb429.bsky.social
Former District Fire Chief (FF 40 yrs)
Public safety case studies, firefighting.
Scenario sets in planning, training, equipping.
Politically unaffiliated moderate.
https://roomfiresetc.com/
I wanna watch this American hero testify before Congress.

"...substantial evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump then engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the
legitimate results of the election in order to retain power."
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If they're not careful, Canadians won't be allowed in his Billionaires Ballroom.
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
July 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Responders, how do you refer to individual train cars in your radio traffic if there is no distinguishing feature like smoke? (Derailments, collisions, fires, police action.)
Sheffield train blaze in Ecclesfield www.thestar.co.uk/news/photos-...
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The campaign to break the federal government continues unabated. EMR-ISAC was a good source of reliable information, so it had no value to the Mad King's followers.
May 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So will there be an executive order mandating a change to "America Dry"?
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Reading about the end of the old crime wave as the new one gets under way.

REPORT ON EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE LAWFUL TRANSFER OF POWER FOLLOWING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE HELD ON JANUARY 6, 2021
January 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Two public safety cases studies from air incidents this week: Flight 1549 (Miracle on Hudson 15Jan2009) and Flight 90 crash into the Potomac (13Jan1982).

Rapid coordination of assets (including civilian)
structure and culture of operating environment
expertise in highly structured environment
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January 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Charlie Hebdo attacks (1/7/2015) can be studied in many ways, but EMS and fire people might use them to get a look at emergency medical care in France. If you become intrigued by a higher level of care on scene, you can follow up by studying the Bataclan attacks and Boston Marathon bombing
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January 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This week has 6 anniversaries of high profile incidents that public safety people should study. First is the Pang Warehouse fire (1/5/1995) and then of course the attack on the United States Congress (1/6/2021).
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January 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
15 yrs ago my old dept narrowly avoided tragedy at a 2-alarm fire. Can’t describe the gratitude I still feel for the people who provided rapid, effective emergency medical care to one of my guys.
Firefighters dropped their tools and worked with a private provider’s standby ALS and BLS units.
January 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's not just a questionable opinion. It qualifies as misinformation.

To accept it, you must believe either that those numbers are required by the fire or that huge safety margins are good--false and false.
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December 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Bad mental models are evident when heavy-hitters of the US fire training industry recommend 180-200 gpm on interior handlines for dwelling fires (in a book of fire case studies.)

Think it through.
roomfiresetc.com/GPM.html,
roomfiresetc.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Nov 29th is the anniversary of the 1988 ANFO explosion that killed six Kansas City MO firefighters. Some hazmat labeling requirements can be traced to the fallout from this tragedy.

It has been widely used as a training case study. 1/n
www.hsdl.org/c/view?docid...
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Thursday will be the anniversary of the 1942 Coconut Grove nightclub fire that killed 492 people. Many now-common fire safety practices were absent, but the tragedy was also the first large loss of life involving rapid fire development and toxicity of a new class of fuels in building fires—plastics
November 25, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas. Fire was limited to first floor but fatalities occurred as high as the 26th floor. The deaths of 85 people demonstrated that codes had not kept up with the toxicity of plastic furnishings and building products
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM