FE Blog Network -- Ricky Riley

Automatic Fire Alarm Complacency By: Tony Kelleher and Ricky Riley Recently, we have had several discussions; both within my own areas fire department and in other departments across th...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2012/10/automatic-fire-alarm-complacency.html

June 14th, 2005 is a day that lives with all of us at Traditions Training, The FDNY, Kentland VFD and the Lund Family. That was the day we lost Peter Lund in a hometown house fire in Woodmere, ...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2012/06/mentor-and-friend.html

Thanks goes to Fire Engineering Magazine, PennWell and Chief Halton as Traditions Training Instructors Larry Schultz (DCFD) and Ricky Riley (Clearwater Fire and Kentland VFD) have been chosen to...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2012/03/waving-red-flags-on-fireground.html

Over the past few days, compliments of the Internet, several videos have been posted that show the “lost art” of getting the first attack line in service. There has been plenty of talk abo...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/11/over-past-few-days-compliments-of.html

While searching for information for our radio show on Fire Engineering Blog Talk Radio I came across an article written by Captain Charles Gibbs of the Arlington County, VA. Fire Department. He r...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/08/attack-line.html

This weekend Traditions Training delivered a two-day class in Quakertown/Coopersburg, PA. The class was in a large acquired structure that offered many challenges to the hose crews as they adv...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/05/big-fire-big-watereasy-for-chief-to-say.html

At Traditions Training we consistently state at every program we teach... we must to be "Combat Ready" as firefighters. For some "Combat Ready" might just be taken as a "slogan" or a "buzz -wo...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/03/it-is-just-not-about-you.html

WHEN IS ENOUGH TRAINING, ENOUGH? Traditions Training presented a lecture program in a Washington D.C. suburb this past weekend. The class focused on “Incident Command” and “Company Off...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-is-enough-training-enough.html

Recently, Traditions Training was invited to teach a program for a fire department in a “not so urban” area of the country. Being that most of our instructors come from busy urban or suburban...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-250-equals-250_14.html

Recently, after a long afternoon of dull fire department paperwork, a trip to 7-11 was needed to boost the energy for the rest of the workday. As I walked into the store I stopped and took a look...

http://rick-riley.blogspot.com/2011/02/5-hour-energy-drink-and-forcible-entry.html