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Welcome!
Thank you for visiting the Fit
4 Fire
website, dedicated with great respect and affection for our brothers
and sisters in the Fire Service, here in the U.S. and abroad. We’re glad
you’re here! We would be happy to hear from you with questions or
comments, and invite you to browse through our site to learn about our
purpose and programs.

Our Mission
Our mission is to develop
and deliver programs that will improve the health and safety of our fellow
firefighters. It’s as simple as that.
What is decidedly not simple
is the very subject of safety in the fire service. Safety covers an
incredibly broad range of concerns: from apparel and SCBA, to safe
apparatus driving and fireground SOPs; from communications and ICS, to
risk assessment and deployment, and the list goes on and on. With about
100 firefighters losing their lives each year, what can we do to lower or
even eliminate that haunting statistic?
At Fit 4 Fire, we
have chosen to focus our attention on two very specific and important
subjects directly involved in firefighter safety on the fireground: Engine
Company Operations and Firefighter Fitness.
Although the subjects may
seem totally unrelated, the programs share the common goal of teaching
knowledge and skills that will change behaviors and make the participants
safer, more confident and more competent.

Program Overview
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Engine
Company Operations: Advanced Firestreams is not a cursory
review of hose and nozzle evolutions. It integrates a thorough
knowledge and understanding of fireground hydraulics with practical
and critical elements of Standard Operating Procedures, including
manpower allotment, staffing assignments, deployment decision-making,
company interactions, strategies and tactics, etc. More than anything
else, this program challenges participants to evaluate with clear
objectivity the history, evolution and effectiveness of their Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs), or Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs),
if you prefer. As Donald Chambers wrote in an article for firenuggets.com,
"self-inquiry is a powerful tool." That said, the focus of
this program is group dynamics: interactions among members of a
company, between operating companies, and between command and field
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Fit 4 Fire is
the flagship program for which the company is named. Based on the
writings and teachings of Covert Bailey, the program begins with the
conviction that diets don’t work, that there’s more to being fit
than one’s weight alone, and that frankly, if we want to be healthy
enough to handle the physical and mental demands of the fireground, we
have to be willing to exercise. The focus of this program is the individual’s
self-image and his or her willingness to accept change to be
healthier, stronger and more effective in combat on the fireground.
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Program Details
For more
information about the content and objectives of these programs, click
here. For a better understanding of the issues addressed in the Engine
Company program, you can also visit www.firenuggets.com,
and read the article Crises
on the Fireground: Water and Manpower at the Scene.

Contact Information
- To contact Fit 4 Fire Instructor Don Chambers:
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- Telephone
- 603-960-1169
- Postal address
- P.O. Box 87, North Sandwich NH 03259
- Electronic mail
- General Information: dchambers@gmail.com
Webmaster: gjmoes@hughes.net

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