10 Minute-Drill: Teens Crash into Suburban Home, Triggering Collapse Risk. You’re IC No. 1. What’s Your Move?
10-Minute Drill
Teens Crash into Suburban Home, Triggering Collapse Risk.
You're IC No. 1. What's Your Move?
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, August 12, 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.
Many 10-Minute Trainings focus on incidents that any IC might encounter: fires in commercial buildings, houses, strip malls, apartments and big box occupancies. Most fire officers also have significant experience dealing with vehicle accidents and extrication. However, a high-speed collision involving a vehicle crashing into a home presents an entirely different level of challenge.
This month’s 10-Minute Training for IC No. 1 takes us to Indianapolis for a vehicle accident that caused significant structural damage to two homes. The supplemental training material accompanying this drill looks at critical factors related to firefighter safety during structural-collapse incidents.
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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.