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Since 1985 • Vol. 27, No. 2 • Fall 2012 www.carolinafi rejournal.com Presented by Owned & Produced by APRIL 22–27, 2013 FDIC.com Indiana Convention Center Lucas Oil Stadium | Indianapolis, IN CONTENTS Hazmat Command and Control 38 Is Your Department Ready John Bierling for a Hazmat Incident? 7 Responding to the Call... Glenn Clapp For Change 40 The Round Rubber Hazmat — Glenn L. Hamm, II Tire Fires 10 Educating Tomorrow’s David Greene Offi cer — The Promised Land 46 Christopher M. Haley Hazmat Teams from Across North Carolina Compete at Riding the Roller Coaster 47 Annual Hazmat Challenge 14 Joe Palmer Glenn Clapp Returning to the Foundations: Fire Alarm Systems 58 Volunteer Department Mike Coffey Can There Be Too Much Training? 16 Extrication Education Ron Cheves Heavy Vehicle Rescue 24 David Pease Features STRUCTURAL TOWER MANAGEMENT 42 The Abilene Paradox 18 EMS 2012 Jonah Smith Rehab and Medical Monitoring ... Are We Rescue A-Z The Station House Pipes and Drums of the Doing It Right? 29 Structural Tower Management 42 Construction Prices and Fire Service: By the Center, Franklin H. Russell and Adam Snyder Public Safety Facilities 52 Quick March 20 Keith Armfi eld Ken Newell Adam Snyder The Homefront Design Build Approach for What a Difference a Opinion Forum Thinking About Starting Facility Renovation and Minute Can Make 22 The ‘Cycle of Mediocrity’ A Business? 48 Construction 54 Douglas Cline Its Destructive Effect on Angel Marvin Jeff Barnes and John Kelley Firefi ghters Attend ‘Know Emergency Services 35 Brotherhood — Baptized Fire Station Construction Your Smoke’ Training 25 Lee Sudia in Fire 49 on a Limited Budget 55 Terri Byers Willie Wimmer Fire Pre-Planning Joe Starnes and Perry Davis 2012 S.C. Firefi ghters Lessons Learned as the Electronic Pre-Plans and Challenge: The Toughest 3 Signifi cant Other of a Firefi ghter 50 All About Trucks Emergency Preparedness Minutes in Sports Today 28 Dedra Cline for Schools 36 Your Final Inspection 59 Mike Coffey Dennis Amodio Willie Wimmer Common Sense Supervision 33 Health and Fitness Economics Should not Dave Murphy Tools of the Trade The Importance of EKG Dictate Safety of Your What are Your Options in Make Smart Purchases Monitored Graded Exercise Equipment 63 These Tough Times? 34 to Fit Your Budget 41 Stress Testing 51 Willie Wimmer Mark D. Reese David Pease Charles F. Turner, R.N. Fire Station Profi le Thomasville Fire Dept. 60 Chief Martin S. Dailey Ask Ernie 62 Answered by Tony Bulygo, EVT Techtalk Industry News 56 Family Fun 64 New Deliveries 68 Advertiser Index 70 SCRAP AND SHREDDED TIRE FIRES 10 you gotta know what they're breathing, before they ever take a breath. Real-time gas detection. For real-time decisions. Whether it’s smoke, chemicals, gas or radiation, our family of wireless detection devices and software give you real-time data when you need it most. So you can make critical decisions faster and respond to disasters with confidence. Learn more now at www.RAEsystems.com. 6 FALL • 2012 www.carolinafi rejournal.com Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal Staff Publisher R.B. Knight from the editor [email protected] Editor Sherry Brooks [email protected] Many of you had Assistant Editor Gwen Shuford poignant comments on gwen.shuford@carolinafi rejournal.com our summer cover “The Brotherhood,” and we en- Associate Editor Stephen Murphy stephen.murphy@carolinafi rejournal.com joyed hearing the differ- ent stories. In this issue, Graphic Designer Stacy Anton Moore Sherry Brooks Willie Wimmer shares his advertising@carolinafi rejournal.com thoughts on the subject Advertising Department with his article, “Brotherhood — Baptized in Dick Murphy, Kim Thomas Fire.” Business Manager Lisa Homesley All of us enjoyed meeting those of you [email protected] who visited our booth at the South Atlantic Fire Rescue Expo in August. The Expo gets Editorial Board bigger and better every year. I think every- Anthony Bulygo one would agree that the North Carolina Jason Lowrance was the lucky winner of our pedal EVT TechTalk State Firefi ghters Association makes this fi re truck giveaway at the South Atlantic Fire Res- Ron Cheves event special for attendees and vendors. cue Expo in Raleigh. He is with the Claremont Fire Retired Chief - Idlewild VFD This issue’s focus is hazmat. Glenn Clapp Department. Dan Cimini asks a good question: Is your department Retired Assistant Chief - Myrtle Beach FD ready for a hazmat incident? His article on “Rehab and Medical Monitoring.” They walks you step-by-step through prepar- give ideas and solutions for setting up your Glenn Clapp ing your team for that incident you hope rehab station site and how elaborate it NC HazMat Association will never happen. David Greene fi ghts the needs to be. Mike Coffey “round rubber hazmat” in his article on tire Dennis Amodio fi nishes his three-part Training Offi cer - High Point FD fi res. series on fi re pre-planning by discussing Ken Farmer We’re excited to introduce a new section: “Emergency Preparedness for Schools.” Do Section Chief National Firefi ghter Academy The Homefront, created by assistant editor the schools in your area need a more rigor- David Greene Gwen Shuford. In this section, girlfriends, ous plan? What are the benefi ts and costs? Chief, Colleton County children, etc. will share their experiences in How do you convince them to adopt elec- Ed Henry the day-to-day life of a fi refi ghter family. With tronic pre-planning? Charleston Fire Department this issue, Dedra Cline gives us her “lessons We all enjoyed the melancholy music at learned” as the signifi cant other of a fi re- the South Atlantic Fire Rescue Expo, and Dave Murphy fi ghter. Join Dedra each issue as she relates Adam Snyder gives us a history lesson on UNCC-Instructor her personal experiences as a girlfriend and the pipe and drum bands and how they Ken Newell then wife of a chief fi refi ghter. We welcome fi rst connected with fi re departments. Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects your thoughts and ideas of other articles Take a look at our Family Fun section, Joe Palmer you’d like to see in this section. If you would pages 64-65, for discounts on travel and Director SC State Firefi ghters Association like to contribute, please contact Gwen at camping. Amar Patel gwen.shuford@carolinafi rejournal.com. Our mission is to give you training and WakeMed Health’s Hospitals Ron Cheves asks if we are losing volun- ideas through our articles and special sec- David Pease teer fi refi ghters due to the amount of train- tions, and to give you the products and R.E.D.S. ing demanded. Is this something you’re ex- services you need through qualifi ed and periencing in your department? carefully selected advertisers. All feedback Dale Wade Franklin Russell and Keith Armfi eld write is welcome. Let us hear from you. Retired USFS Fire Research Project Leader Willie Wimmer the QUALITY of your equipment Firefi ghter/OBX Fire Tech Owner determines the SAFETY of your firemen. Contributing Photographers Terri Byers, Glenn Clapp, David Greene, The EVOLUTION Family of TIC’s 5200HD, 5200, 5600 and 5800 Franklin Russell, Adam Snyder, Joe Starnes, The most successful, durable and fi refi ghter friendly camera. 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Carolina Fire Rescue EMS Journal www.carolinafi rejournal.com FALL • 2012 7 SIXTY ONE DELTA ONE When possibilities become realities: Is your department ready for a hazmat incident? By Glenn Clapp CHMM, CFPS Many emergency responders responders as a prerequisite for grant funding streams and proac- materials operations plus, the fensive actions in the “hot zone,” believe that a large-scale hazard- certifi cation as a fi refi ghter. Just tive thinking, many fi re depart- certifi cation is awarded by the such as plugging, patching, or ous materials incident (or even a what does such a level of train- ments that operate at the opera- employer and allows an opera- otherwise controlling leaks and hazmat incident of any sizeable ing allow us to do? In a nutshell, tions level of hazmat response tions level responder that has releases. The progression from nature) will never occur in their personnel trained to the opera- now have single sensor or even received the training outlined operations level responder to jurisdiction. For those person- tions level of hazmat certifi cation four-gas air monitors to assist in in 13 North Carolina Adminis- hazmat technician is the largest nel that do not have an inter- as stipulated in the 2008 Edition the detection of such atmospher- trative Code 07F .0103 to plug, jump in knowledge, competen- est in becoming a “glow bug” of NFPA 472 can perform defen- ic contaminants. Departments patch, or otherwise mitigate a cies and capabilities in the entire (otherwise known as a member sive actions such as damming conducting air monitoring of leak emanating from a fuel tank spectrum of hazmat certifi cation.