10 Minute-Training: Challenges in a N.Y. State apartment fire highlight the importance of coordination & prioritization
10-Minute Drill
Challenges in a N.Y. state apartment fire highlight the importance of coordination & prioritization.
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, April 8, 2025
Every month, the B Shifter Buckslip features a 10-Minute Training scenario designed to provide a bit of synthetic experience while enhancing your ability to recognize patterns, identify relevant cues, expectancies, and anomalies, set plausible goals, and develop a workable incident action plan.
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or this month’s 10-Minute Training, we head to Hudson Falls, N.Y., for a fire in a multi-unit residential occupancy. Events like this present significant life hazards, which were compounded at this incident in an older, renovated building with a unique configuration. If staffing permits, coordinated fire control and search are conducted simultaneously. If not, the IC must prioritize the sequence of tactical operations. Click here to download the file. If you’d like additional 10-Minute Training drills, visit www.commandcompetence.com.
Ed Hartin retired as fire chief with East County Fire and Rescue in Camas, Wash., after a 50-year fire service career. Ed maintains an active international training and consulting practice and is a Blue Card instructor. He holds the Chief Fire Officer designation from the Commission on Professional Credentialing and is a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers. Ed has undergraduate degrees in fire protection technology and fire service administration and a master’s degree in education. Since 2017, Ed has developed more than 450 10-Minute Trainings to provide ICs with deliberate practice to build competence.