We were honored and happy to do an interview the other night on the Fire Engineering Radio Show. Three of the Irons and Ladders owners (Nick Chapel, Bryan Lynch, Ryan Royal) were interviewed by P.J Norwood and Brian Brush who are both instructors from FDIC. They interviewed us on what Irons and Ladders is doing [...]
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Fire Engineering Radio Interview
02/22/2012Students of the Craft
01/19/2012A defining moment in your career is the point that you feel you have enough experience and training to do your job well but you don’t settle for that. A characteristic of a good tradesman is the humility to realize how much more he needs to master and to understand it is going to take [...]
Sparky Truax Fundraiser Class
01/01/2012This came together very quickly and is not very far out. Sign up today! We will be presenting a half day class on Forcible Entry Door Size Up. The other half of the day will be a Ventilation class presented by Brian Brush who runs Colorado Firefighter and contributes regularly to Fire Service Warrior. 100% of [...]
1 Worcester LODD This Morning.
12/08/2011They are reporting one Worcester firefighter was killed this morning in a triple decker fire. They had twelve people inside the building this morning when they arrived. A wall collapsed and pinned firefighters who had to be rescued. Be sure to follow this one has more information comes out. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111208at_least_1_firefighter_removed_from_worcester_blaze/srvc=home&position=also Fire Engineering
Motivation By Action
11/19/2011If you haven’t seen on our Facebook Page yet, I was asked and honored to write an article for the guys over at Fire Service Warrior. It is a great website that is rapidly growing in popularity. It has multiple different authors and contributors that write on fitness issues, mentality and mindfulness and provide some [...]
Never Forget…Not Just One Day a Year.
09/07/2011Never Forget….You hear it so often that it starts to become more of a slogan than words with meaning. Sometimes we say it, write it, tattoo it but not really remember the true meaning of “Never Forget” and what it represents. Every year I remember September 11th 2001 and the 343 men that died doing [...]
New Place to Follow IRONS and LADDERS
06/19/2011We finally took the dive into the Facebook world and created a page for IRONS and LADDERS LLC. We are still getting the hang of things but it should be a good avenue for us to post short trainings and updates on classes. Take a look and if you want to help us and follow [...]
San Francisco LODD
06/04/2011The San Francisco Fire Department lost two members in a fire June 2nd 2011. Initial reports are saying they may have been caught in a flashover. Both were pulled from the fire and transported to the hospital with CPR in progress. Take a minute and listen to the audio along with watching the news footage [...]
Upcoming Classes and Training
04/24/2011We wanted to catch everyone up on some class and training opportunities from around the area. First the Two Knuckleheads have their next presenter only a few weeks out. On May 16th John Ceriello will be presenting a class on “Todays Fire Attack and Ventilation”. This should be a great class that brings a good mix [...]
RIP Ed Stringer and Corey Ankum
01/02/2011My Union and my Fire Department in the years past have started a tradition that I would encourage everyone to consider for their own area. When multiple firefighters die in the line of duty, our Union pays to fly and lodge two of our members to the represented city. Our fire department supports us by allowing [...]
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