Bob Bourgeois

@rjb429

Former District Fire Chief (FF 40 yrs) Public safety case studies, firefighting. Scenario context in planning, training, equipping. Politically unaffiliated moderate.

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Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Dec 24

A nurse (Kenyan immigrant) who ‘came here to make a difference’ was among those killed in fiery explosion at Bucks nursing home. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Muthoni Nduthu 52, a nurse at Bristol Health and Rehab Center died in the explosion while working Tuesday, Dec. 23

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Oct 26

I wanna watch this American hero testify before Congress. "...substantial evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump then engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power."

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Oct 25

If they're not careful, Canadians won't be allowed in his Billionaires Ballroom.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jul 29

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jun 22

Responders, how do you refer to individual train cars in your radio traffic if there is no distinguishing feature like smoke? (Derailments, collisions, fires, police action.) Sheffield train blaze in Ecclesfield www.thestar.co.uk/news/photos-...

Firefighters climb onto railcars filled with railroad ties (sleepers) to fight fire.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· May 28

The campaign to break the federal government continues unabated. EMR-ISAC was a good source of reliable information, so it had no value to the Mad King's followers.

May 28, 2025 email announcing the end of the Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing & Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC).

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Apr 3

So will there be an executive order mandating a change to "America Dry"?

Open can of Canada Dry ginger ale in the middle of a delicatessen meal

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jan 15

Reading about the end of the old crime wave as the new one gets under way. REPORT ON EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE LAWFUL TRANSFER OF POWER FOLLOWING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE HELD ON JANUARY 6, 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE: THE ELECTION CASE p1
I. THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION p2
A. Mr. Trump's Pressure on State Officials p8
B. Mr. Trump's Fraudulent Elector Plan p11
C. Mr. Trump's Misuse of Official Power Through the Justice Department p16
D. Mr. Trump's Pressure on the Vice President p20
E. Mr. Trump's Supporters Attack the United States Capitol p23
II. THE LAW p33
A. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) p34
B. Obstruction and Conspiracy to Obstruct (18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) and (c)(2)) p45
C. Conspiracy Against Rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) p49
D. Defenses p53
E. Other Charges p61
F. Co-Conspirator Liability p67
III. THE PRINCIPLES OF FEDERAL PROSECUTION p68

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jan 14

Two public safety cases studies from air incidents this week: Flight 1549 (Miracle on Hudson 15Jan2009) and Flight 90 crash into the Potomac (13Jan1982). Rapid coordination of assets (including civilian) structure and culture of operating environment expertise in highly structured environment 1/

Flight 1549 floats in Hudson River as passengers and crew evacuate onto wings and deployed exit chutes. Picture is taken before rescuers arrived. Much of the rescue work was done by nearby vessels in an ad hoc response organization that was invented in minutes.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jan 6

The Charlie Hebdo attacks (1/7/2015) can be studied in many ways, but EMS and fire people might use them to get a look at emergency medical care in France. If you become intrigued by a higher level of care on scene, you can follow up by studying the Bataclan attacks and Boston Marathon bombing 4/

Emergency medical providers wheel a victim on an ambulance cot. One of them carries a cardiac monitor.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jan 6

This week has 6 anniversaries of high profile incidents that public safety people should study. First is the Pang Warehouse fire (1/5/1995) and then of course the attack on the United States Congress (1/6/2021). 1/

An attacker in gas mask sprays an irritant toward a target off-camera. In the background attackers in various stages of engagement wave several types of flags.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Jan 5

15 yrs ago my old dept narrowly avoided tragedy at a 2-alarm fire. Can’t describe the gratitude I still feel for the people who provided rapid, effective emergency medical care to one of my guys. Firefighters dropped their tools and worked with a private provider’s standby ALS and BLS units.

Aerial view of a down firefighter receiving emergency medical care from firefighters (paramedics and basic EMTs) working with paramedics and EMTs of a private ambulance service.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Dec 1

It's not just a questionable opinion. It qualifies as misinformation. To accept it, you must believe either that those numbers are required by the fire or that huge safety margins are good--false and false. 2/n

The main gpm safety margins are for knockdown and flow reduction. You want to be okay if knocking the fire somehow requires more water than expected. You also want to be okay if a kink or some other mishap reduces the flow to the nozzle.

Stream from a nozzle that is useless because of a kink in the hose
Fig. 6-2 Kinks ruin your stream

The reference point for the flow-reduction margin (RP-kink) is the bottom of the nozzle’s operating range. It’s the smallest flow that will provide a usable stream.

The reference point for the knockdown margin is the smallest flow that will black the fire out. Any flow less than RP-Knockdown will fail to kill the fire. Any flow more than RP-Knockdown will give you a margin of safety. The actual number varies from fire to fire, so for planning purposes we take 30 gpm as an adequate residential RP-Knockdown. It would easily cope with all but the largest residential rooms.

Your planned safety margin in each case is the difference between your target flow and the reference point.

As with most safety margins, distance above the reference point will limit the benefit of a margin increase. If your RP is 30, a target flow increase from 40 to 60 would be valuable. A boost from 140 to 160 would not. It’s unlikely that the higher numbers would ever come into play.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Nov 30

Bad mental models are evident when heavy-hitters of the US fire training industry recommend 180-200 gpm on interior handlines for dwelling fires (in a book of fire case studies.) Think it through. roomfiresetc.com/GPM.html, roomfiresetc.com

Nozzle flow safety margins for automatic and smooth-bore nozzles at 100 and 150 gpm. Knockdown safety margins are very large in all four cases. Kink margins are big for automatic, but only about 29% for smooth-bore, regardless of tip size.

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Nov 29

Nov 29th is the anniversary of the 1988 ANFO explosion that killed six Kansas City MO firefighters. Some hazmat labeling requirements can be traced to the fallout from this tragedy. It has been widely used as a training case study. 1/n www.hsdl.org/c/view?docid...

Cover of U.S. Fire Administration Technical Report USFA-TR-24/November 1988 "Six Firefighter Fatalities in Construction Site Explosion"

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Nov 25

Thursday will be the anniversary of the 1942 Coconut Grove nightclub fire that killed 492 people. Many now-common fire safety practices were absent, but the tragedy was also the first large loss of life involving rapid fire development and toxicity of a new class of fuels in building fires—plastics

Bob Bourgeois@rjb429· Nov 22

Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas. Fire was limited to first floor but fatalities occurred as high as the 26th floor. The deaths of 85 people demonstrated that codes had not kept up with the toxicity of plastic furnishings and building products