Rick Fritz

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  Rick Fritz 51, Male Way Down South, in the land o' cotton United States
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  Rick Fritz - used to serve as the Battalion Chief of Training for the High Point North Carolina Fire Department. A member of the Fire Service since 1977, he has served in a variety of roles in the Fire service from volunteer through career. He is the author of Tools of the Trade, Firefighting Handtools and their use book and video series. He medically retired in 2008. Web site: http://www.high-point.net/dept/fire
  
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  Published on: 10/29/2007    Last Visited: 10/29/2007  

  By Richard A. Fritz, Battalion Chief of Training, High Point (NC) Fire Dept.
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  Instructor Richard Fritz, a 26-year veteran of the fire service, demonstrates the various techniques, offers safety tips, and provides useful hints on helping to keep you and your tools in top form and ready for actual fireground conditions.

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  Published on: 10/29/2007    Last Visited: 10/22/2008  

  A book by Richard A. Fritz, Training Officer, High Point (NC) Fire Department Each day, firefighters throughout the country use numerous tools for extrication, forcible entry, extinguishment, rescue, ventilation, overhaul, salvage, and other functions associated with the job.

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  Last Visited: 10/19/2002  

  From Rick Fritz, battalion chief of training, High Point (NC) Fire Department, commenting on fire departments having to do too much with too little: "The term for the new fire service should be the 'Hellman's Department' because we are spread so thin."
  
  Cheaper isn't always betterAn urban city in New Jersey held a Memorial Service on 9-11-02 to remember the victims of the World Trade Center disaster.The organizers were told to purchase doves to be released at the conclusion of the service.Trying to save a little money, they went to a live poultry store and bought pigeons instead.When it came time to release the birds, the organizer opened the cages, and nothing happened.The pigeons just sat there.

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  Published on: 6/8/2002    Last Visited: 6/8/2002  

  Rick Fritz, training captain for the High Point (NC) Fire Department, and I shared our thoughts concerning the training needs of our respective departments and how to fulfil them.Although we were from dramatically different-sized departments, we knew that there are very few basic differences between fire departments-training funds are tight no matter where you go.Hence the problem: How do we provide high-quality training using experts in their respective fields without breaking the budget?
  
  We developed the idea that we would come to the other's department while on duty, each one teaching in his respective area of expertise.Sharing instructors would eliminate the cost of providing expert training, thereby allowing the departments to use these precious funds for student materials and training props instead of salaries and travel expenses.Both departments' personnel could actually train together in some cases if we instructed a particular class as a team.
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  As luck would have it, Fritz and I had worked together in developing the engine company operations program for the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI).He and I had taught this program with great success with a group of world-class instructors from across the nation.With some minor fine-tuning, the IFSI program could be adapted to the specific needs of High Point, and we could "tag team" the instruction of the class.We devised a schedule that would allow for the class to be repeated nine times over the course of three months-a 126-hour commitment.
  
  So how did it work?As the visiting instructor, I was welcomed with open arms, and an old-timer commented that the program was "excellent and needed training."In fact, a hoseload that my department in King developed and uses (see "Increasing the Versatility of Your Hosebed," Fire Engineering, October 1999) was taught to High Point as a possible solution to a problematic 21/2-inch load.

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  Published on: 6/5/2002    Last Visited: 6/5/2002  

  Rick Fritz, training captain for the High Point (NC) Fire Department, and I shared our thoughts concerning the training needs of our respective departments and how to fulfil them.Although we were from dramatically different-sized departments, we knew that there are very few basic differences between fire departments-training funds are tight no matter where you go.Hence the problem: How do we provide high-quality training using experts in their respective fields without breaking the budget?
  
  We developed the idea that we would come to the other's department while on duty, each one teaching in his respective area of expertise.Sharing instructors would eliminate the cost of providing expert training, thereby allowing the departments to use these precious funds for student materials and training props instead of salaries and travel expenses.Both departments' personnel could actually train together in some cases if we instructed a particular class as a team.
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  As luck would have it, Fritz and I had worked together in developing the engine company operations program for the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI).He and I had taught this program with great success with a group of world-class instructors from across the nation.With some minor fine-tuning, the IFSI program could be adapted to the specific needs of High Point, and we could "tag team" the instruction of the class.We devised a schedule that would allow for the class to be repeated nine times over the course of three months-a 126-hour commitment.
  
  So how did it work?As the visiting instructor, I was welcomed with open arms, and an old-timer commented that the program was "excellent and needed training."In fact, a hoseload that my department in King developed and uses (see "Increasing the Versatility of Your Hosebed," Fire Engineering, October 1999) was taught to High Point as a possible solution to a problematic 21/2-inch load.

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  Published on: 11/1/2002    Last Visited: 1/15/2003  

  "In some communities," relates Rick Fritz, battalion chief of training, High Point (NC) Fire Department, "there is a greater emphasis on 'who' is coming through the front door than on ensuring that all of the firefighters coming through the front door are trained, competent, properly equipped, and in sufficient numbers …" Fritz says we're doing too much with too little."The term for the new fire service should be the 'Hellmann'sT Department' because we are spread so thin."
  
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  Some individual fire departments are "kingdoms," observes Fritz."Often," he says, "departments are created as political factions of one department and 'splinter' into another department."
  
  Territorialism/parochialism sometimes is evidenced by attitude.
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  With regard to the career-vs.-volunteer rivalry, "The fire service is its own worst enemy," says Fritz."We have been fighting with ourselves since before the Civil War."
  
  Other factors that can impede (and have impeded) progress, according to respondents, are "ego-bound chiefs or "top brass," personal agendas, and self-centeredness.Some fire departments are run based on what an individual likes and not what's best for the community, some explain.These attitudes keep departments from considering mergers or sharing services because the department "would be less important."
  
  Lack of Adequate Training and Training Facilities
  
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  "Everything rolls down the hill to us," says Fritz, who asks rhetorically, "Where was law enforcement during the anthrax scare? … It was the fire service that dealt with the stuff.But, who got all the money for training?It wasn't us."
  
  Then, there is the issue of live fire training.Respondents point to a lack of economical and reasonably convenient National Fire Protection Association 1403-compliant live burn facilities.
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  "We are already suffering staffing cutbacks, ignoring building codes, and refusing to retrofit the fire service," says Fritz."Unless the political arena changes, we will continue to respond just as we have since the mid-1800s.Building construction techniques are getting worse from a fire service perspective, not better," he adds.
  
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  Fritz sees "a disturbing trend toward the nationalization of the fire service with the fire service answering to and taking direction from the Federal Emergency Management Agency."

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  Fire Department Instructor's Conference - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/11/2004    Last Visited: 7/11/2004  

  Rick Fritz Battalion Chief of Training, High Point (NC) Fire Department
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  Rick Fritz, Coordinator, Hands-On Education

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  Fire Department Instructor's Conference - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/8/2003    Last Visited: 7/14/2004  

  Rick Fritz, Battalion Chief of Training, High Point (NC) Fire Dept.; Hands-On Training Coordinator
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  Battalion Chief Richard A. Fritz, High Point (NC) Fire Dept.

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  Fire Engineering Books & Videos: DVDs - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/7/2007    Last Visited: 2/18/2009  

  By Richard A. Fritz, Battalion Chief of Training, High Point (NC) Fire Dept.

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