10 Minute-Training: Tractor-Trailer Fire Results in Tragic LODD
10-Minute Drill
Tractor-trailer fire results in tragic LODD on Georgia highway
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, July 22, 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 Drills focus on common structure fires in houses, commercial buildings, strip malls, apartments and big box occupancies. Others allow incident commanders to exercise their skills on equally standard calls, such as vehicle accidents and car fires. Sometimes, however, ICs must manage unusual incidents or those they have never experienced. These situations require adaptive expertise, the ability to apply knowledge and skills to new or unfamiliar circumstances. Adaptive expertise demands flexibility, adaptation and the ability to learn and develop solutions when facing unique challenges quickly. It differs from routine expertise, which involves proficiently executing standard, well-practiced procedures.
This month’s 10-Minute Training is for IC No. 2 and takes us to Green County, Ga., for a commercial vehicle fire that resulted in a tragic outcome with the line-of-duty death of Battalion Chief Chris Eddy of Green County (Ga.) Fire Rescue. The additional learning accompanying this drill digs into the NIOSH Line of Duty Death Report associated with this incident (2024-05) and examines overpressure events like backdrafts and smoke explosions.
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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.