by Sam Wallace
“When you’re off duty, be off duty.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
Self-Rescue
“Be a thinking firefighter. Don’t be this check the box, minimum PowerPoint instructor, firefighter.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
“Your time underneath this helmet is limited but your time as a servant and as a good human being is not.”
— Andy Starnes | Instructor and Founder at Insight Fire Training LLC
Andy Starnes Gives a Speech with Advice for New Firefighters: Motivating Them to Do Good for Others
In this firefighter video, Andy Starnes delivers a speech with advice for new firefighters. He explains a few firefighter rules to live by on the importance of being smart and hard-working. He also gives them firefighter tips on work/life balance. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: The biggest problem in the fire service is a closed mind and a closed nozzle. I don’t care …
Pregnant Lady Lift | Two-Firefighter Rapid Intervention Stairwell Rescue
— Parker CO, Fire College 2021 | “When things go bad”
Rapid Intervention – Stairwell Rescue
Stairwell Rescue Training Video in Honor of Firefighter Vinnie Fowler
NYFP Firefighter Vinnie Fowler died in 1999 because firefighters couldn’t get him up seven steps. This stairwell rescue training video demonstrates how to rescue a down firefighter in a stairwell with one-man, two-man and three-man rescue techniques. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: Vinnie Fowler, 1999, 250 pounds died because they couldn’t get him up seven steps. He was a husband, and he was …
“Start at the top and wrap down. If I start at the bottom and wrap up, (the rope) binds on itself because it comes over.”
— Parker CO, Fire College | “When things go bad”
Rapid Intervention -Stairwell Rescue
“So many people don’t see victims as victims because of how they perceive a prostitute.”
— iEmpathize | Addressing Human Trafficking Victims Training Course
Human Trafficking Confrontation