Capitol Fire Training
Capitol Fire Training LLC is devoted to teaching firefighters across the nation basic and advanced s
Capitol Fire Training LLCis a corporation composed of experienced Fire and Rescue Instructors and Firefighters from all over the United States. Our Instructors hail from organizations ranging in size from the smallest to some of the largest and most successful departments in our Nation. Capitol Fire Training Instructors share real-life training, techniques, and experiences that go beyond your everyday drills and manuals. We strive to make every lecture and hands-on training fun and interactive while simultaneously meeting the specific needs of your staffing, department, or organization.
**The Oath & Mission**
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There seems to be a constant reminder of “the oath” and often times we throw it in many people’s face as if everyone swore to the same thing. Truth be told there’s many who never took the oath and were put into place to help serve and are still learning what the job is about, and what we’re here to do. Because they didn’t that doesn’t disqualify them from what the mission is, but it’s our job to teach them.
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This will shock many, but there are many departments that don’t even own a mission statement. Again, doesn’t excuse anyone from knowing what to do and how to serve, but as fire service instructors and leaders it’s our job to teach it eloquently. Everyone should know at least their oath and or mission statement of their department. It should be displayed proudly for any and everyone to read or access. If your department doesn’t have one, develop one and at the very least on a lower level your company should have one that everyone in that firehouse believes in and upholds.
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There’s no dispute we have to uphold the oath, but let’s teach people what to uphold and help people establish something to uphold if they don’t have anything in place. After all it’s our job as fire service instructors to deliver the information in a way that everyone can comprehend and at the same time process.
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Frederick County Fire/Rescue Mission
“To safely provide fire, rescue and emergency medical services, while educating, reducing risk and protecting protecting our community in a professional, efficient manner with a well trained, healthy workforce”.
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(🎥: Frederick County Fire/Rescue recruit class 33 & 34 take the oath to serving and protecting the community and upholding the standards. This is done at the conclusion of every graduation ceremony and each person puts their name and their stamp to it).
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09/24/2026
May we never forget the sacrifice that these three made September 24th 2016. Jerry Fickes, Christopher Leach, and Ardythe Hope.
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All who selflessly gave to their families, community, their department and to the American Fire Service. A true honor that we get to keep their memories alive through our work. May we forever remember them.
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Take some time today to pray for them, their families and their fire department family of the Wilmington Fire Department.
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**Omaha, Omaha**
“The Adjustment”
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The fireground is forever changing on us. We can have the best thought out policies and procedures that tell you where to go, what to bring, but you MUST have the ability to see and do on your own. Conditions drive tactics, and with that, you have to be able to switch up the play based on what you physically see in front of you, and be able to get the whole team to adjust to the play just as quickly. It’s okay to call an audible, but can you get everyone on the same page?
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Adjusting on the fly is taught! It’s skills that can be practiced. More importantly something that needs to be continually evaluated especially for members who are moving/ operating independently. Retired Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Payton Manning who was also a hall of famer, 2 super bowls, 5 MVP awards, and over 530 touchdowns thrown consistently practiced adjusting on the fly with his teammates. The fire service has many parallels to the game of football.
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(🎥: Robert James discusses the parallels of firefighting and the sport of football during this presentation “The Playbook” at Training Days in Alexandria Virginia. This presentation highlights movements on the fire-ground much like movements on the football field).
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This past weekend CFT instructors traveled to Newark Delaware at Aetna Hose, Hook & Ladder Company to instruct at the 7th Annual Jerry Fickes Memorial Training Weekend. This years theme was “Rescue Skills: No Hose, No Water”.
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Over the two days students worked on fire and rescue skills, one skillset each day. Fire skills included: Advanced forcible entry, search tactics & victim removal, FF Removal and stokes basket operations.
Rescue skills included: Vehicle stabilization, extrication tactics of all types of resting vehicles, high angle stokes evolutions, and mechanical advantages.
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Saturday night’s social brought in close to 75 people to hear FDNY Retired FF Al Benjamin, who spoke about what being a firefighter in a rescue company actually means. This years training we had students travel in from as north as Boston Mass. and as south as Georgia. Thank you to everyone who came from all over, and especially a huge thank you to the admin of Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder Co. The fact that we can come together, honor Aetna member & Wilmington Firefighter Jerry Fickes in the name of training is truly astounding!
09/18/2026
Your Work Space
“An Unpopular Opinion”
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Over the last couple of years there’s been a trend of clipping/attaching fire service items to the rear of you. Things like your TIC, or tucking a halligan between your back and your pack. Understandably these things get put out of the way until you need them, but boy do they create such a hazard for us that isn’t worth the headache.
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First and foremost people should understand your “work space”. Your work space is the area where your essential work items are kept. Your workspace “zones” are from your mid sides forward. Anything from your mid sides back is a “no-go zone”. The work space is where your normal alarm keys, your right angle light, anything in your pockets and also to include your keeping your TIC. The reason why these straps/ clips stand to exist on the front of you is so that you can easily access them…and attach these things to them. Now…there is a fine line of how much stuff you want to have attached to you, and each person is different for each role they’re in. Think about how easily accessible any of these things would be if they were behind you. Imagine your alarm keys being on your back (that doesn’t make sense right?)
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Often times when we strap things behind us we create so many problems. Things like:
-Entanglement issues
-Items Not easily accessible
-Unfamiliar damage (yes…often times you can damage the equipment and not know that it hit an object behind you).
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We know that this post won’t change hearts and mind, and maybe even loose some friends over it trying to argue their points, but take some time to reconsider how you store your equipment.
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After all, if you’re a person who needs to have help turning on/off your own SCBA cylinder, your equipment behind you is definitely not for you.
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“The Modern & Urban Truck Co.”
*Connecticut Edition*
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CT is holding a street style firefighter’s conference, and you don’t want to miss it. This event by design is put on to cover street tactics by street style instructors. Welcome “Default Aggressive” to the world of fire conferences. With that… CFT and some of its instructors will be making the trip delivering our “Modern & Urban Truck Company” HOT, on October 18th. This class is 8hrs all work no play (no seriously we’re jamming a 2 day class into 1).
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Students will work on truck skills commonly applied on today’s fireground:
-forcible entry
-vertical ventilation
-search tactics & victim removals
-fireground ladder skills
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The class size is limited to maximize student/instructor ratio and spots are filling. Visit Middlesex County Fire Schools website (link in bio) to get registered! LFG!!! Somewhere we’ll be out for the best pizza on the nation 🍕
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09/11/2026
The list of names and pictures of our fallen firefighters keep growing. There’s still New York City firefighters dying from injuries and cancers sustained from the rescue efforts on September 11th, 2001. May we never forget any of their sacrifices.
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Every year at Capitol Fire Training we like to honor the fallen brothers from the City Of New York Fire Dept., that passed away during the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
Today marks 24 years, since the terrorist attacks on our country. A day that we will never forget. Thank you to all of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
The best thing that we can ever do to honor them, is to continue to speak about them, continue to learn about them and more importantly continue to take pride in our 🇺🇸 flag. Just like we did before the event and especially like we did after.
Rest In Peace Brothers!
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09/08/2026
Visual Cues Pt.1
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There’s so many work arounds preparing your team for fire without having to light the building on fire. Some years ago we shared a post about putting traffic cones in rooms with a light underneath it to identify the room on “fire”.
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This is another approach of visual cues for identifying fire. Here we put traffic cones in the windows of the burn building so that the bright orange cone is a visual cue to pick up on where the “fire” is simulated to be. Using traffic cones does a couple of things for us:
🟧- catches the human eye and starts the process of thinking as if it was on fire.
🟧- slows us down to be able to process our thoughts and make sound decisions (and even mistakes with no wasted consumables).
🟧- allows us to relocate the location of the fire each time we want a new evolution.
🟧- other crew members can communicate the conditions that they see to include the boss. Everyone is responsible for identifying conditions not just the officer.
🟧-if practicing for outside sweeps or transitional attacks, they give the lineman a target to hit.
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There are so many options that become endless ideas using traffic cones. Here you can see the visual cues from the boss’s seat in the cab which can be included in an on-scene report.
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(📸Robert James : Members from eng11_twr1 practice deploying different tactics according to policy. The members can easily identify where they need to stretch to, where they would advance or direct their pattern to, and communicate what they have where they are at given the circumstance).
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09/07/2026
**Labor Day**
A day that recognizes the contributions of working people in the United States.
As we observe this Labor Day, may we remember who this day is dedicated to. This day is dedicated to “YOU”… the hard working individuals who day in and day out put the boots on the ground and straight up grind to make America move. This day is for the people who give it their all on the floor no matter what their job is, be it assemble products, cook/ clean establishments, save lives, build things, all trades that this nation uses to sustain and promote the value of hard work. This day is dedicated to all of you. Without people like you, America couldn’t be what it is.
If that’s not you…that’s not you putting in the hard work, doing your part…GRINDING…this day isn’t for you!
Take today off, enjoy the honor of being acknowledged for your hard work…but tomorrow…we’re back at it…GRINDING!
Happy Labor Day ladies & gentleman!
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09/04/2026
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“Forcible Entry Friday”
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We don’t need to cover window bars and coverings…we’ve hit that at topic to exhaustion. But we will talk about addressing them at height. These coverings are tubular metal over slider doors where no porch/deck exists. Some units have them over the windows as well.
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Often we practice addressing these challenges from street level, standing on the ground and operating a saw or our hand tools. This is where it takes skill being able to navigate these from a ground ladder, or an aerial device or platform. No different from the ground, they need to be removed from the exterior early. In some cases as an IC even assigning a company to handle them while others are working (this could even include your outside RIT company). Addressing these from inside is going to be a challenge for any firefighter. Two options
1. Cut it & drop it.
2. Pry it & hinge it/ drop it
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See these challenges, address them early, and train for them outside of the norm of standing on the ground. Spice up the training!!!!
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