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2015 Amtrak Passenger Train Derailment in Philadelphia – 399

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Benchmarks, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Competency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Judgment, Leadership, Miscommunications, Mission, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, Risk, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Simulation, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Size Up, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Dr. Gasaway interviews Vince Mulray, retired Philadelphia Deputy Chief, discussing the 2015 derailment of Amtrak Train #188 traveling from Washington DC to New York City. On May 12, 2015, at approximately 9:20pm, Amtrak Train #188 traveling from Washington D.C. to New York City derailed and crashed on the Frankford Junction curve […]

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Eagle Scout – First Responder: The Daniel Konzelman Story (Episode 255)

1 Comment / Attitude, Automatic Action, Communications, Competency, Confusion, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Excited, Expectations, Experience, Fear, Information overload, Judgment, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Overwhelm, Pressure, Risk, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Stress, Teamwork, Time Distortion, Training / Rich Gasaway

Daniel Konzelman is an Eagle Scout and an accountant who found himself in the most unsuspecting place he could ever imagine. First on-scene where an Amtrak train derailed just south of Seattle on December 18, 2017. Listen to the story of this amazing young man as he talks about what it was like to be

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Episode 192 | Amtrak Train Derailment Interview with Larry Creekmore

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Command Location, Command Support, Communications, Decision Making, Goals, Leadership, Mission, Personnel location, Radios, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

This episode is an interview with DuPont Fire Chief Larry Creekmore. Chief Creekmore was the third-in unit to the December 18, 2017 Amtrak train derailment in Washington state. Length: 56 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and

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