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Ryan Houghtlen has been working on putting together a few more Quick Sh!t sheets. He is making it pretty easy to add them to the blog with little editing. Be sure to check out the Quick Sh!t Page regularly to see the library grow.

Brother Firefighter Ryan Houghtlen is the brains behind QUICK SH!T.  This premonition came while not being able to get through a full magazine article in one sitting.  The short and sweet, Quick Sh!t sheets can be printed and hung up in your favorite sitting or standing firehouse spots.  Our hope is to get you thinking and then for you to create ...

Ryan's conversation had numerous points that couldn't be summarized in this short post, but here is one that was new for these ears; 380 size-up. At first, I thought WTF, we are finally getting officers to walk around a building and now we have to add another 20 degrees.

For the 3rd year in a row, the firefighters behind the Ohio Fire & EMS Expo put on a great show. Each year it has grown bigger and better. Somehow they have found a way to bring in high caliber instructors and keep the conference pass affordably priced and the expo hall free, thanks to Rescue Methods. Be sure to "Like" Ohio Fire Expo on Facebook and watch for next years announcements. It was great to meet some new brothers and meet-up with some old friends.

We spent a morning with Packexe Smash CEO Andrew Orchard at a scrap yard in Michigan to demo a glass management product. Mr. Orchard is not a firefighter, but seems to get what we do. He put his money where his mouth is by flying in from the UK to show us what his product is all about and to make sure we understood the application.

The Space Spiral at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio is no more. Yesterdays demolition cleared way for a new ride that is scheduled to debut next summer. Check out the pictures and videos below. A little torch work plus some explosives.

We took a tour of the Humanetics Innovative Solutions factory, which is the only company worldwide making crash test dummies for the auto industry. These dummies contain an unbelievable amount of technology that provides data about how passengers are affected in various collisions.

Train, fish, play barbies and repeat has been the order of the last few days. Here are some of the findings, pictures, and video of using a First Responder Jack with our new sleeves on a school bus.

This is a picture of a piece of wood timber that is being used as a column to support the floor system from the basement below at a local watering hole.

Some say its to slow, but a little practice, a decent MDT or ipad, and having a general knowledge of vehicles on the road can make you faster and safer on the wreck scene. Michael Smith had an article out yesterday where he talked about avoiding high strength steels when your tools are dated.