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Practical skills and tactics you can train on.
Turnout gear and breathing apparatus come back from lithium-ion battery and energy storage system fires with a different contamination load. An amendment to NFPA 1850 gives officers and gear buyers a size-up for deciding when advanced cleaning is enough and when the gear needs specialized cleaning and testing.
What the DeKalb County film-studio fire teaches the first-due officer: get water before going deep, open doors only with fire control, stage an on-deck crew early, and pre-plan buildings that have changed use.
NIOSH now recommends professional development that builds psychological safety on the fireground, and the 4th-edition crew resource management (CRM) manual shows how; here are the scripts, debrief format, and officer habits that get crews to raise a concern while it still matters.
UL's Fire Safety Research Institute's (FSRI) April 2026 Search & Rescue course refresh adds three tactical considerations on simultaneous suppression, remote-compartment ventilation, and hydraulic ventilation; here is a drill package that puts them on the training ground with FSRI's own drill sheets, time-to-task sheets, and discussion guides.
NFPA 1850 combines the old 1851 turnout-care and 1852 SCBA-care standards into one document; this program checklist covers what to change in roles, cleaning language, training, records, service life, and lithium-ion battery decon.