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Remember these points: 
1. Reinforcing Situational Awareness
Understanding how rapidly conditions can deteriorate in a structure fire is critical. Training based on this scenario can help firefighters recognize early warning signs of flashover, backdraft, or other dangerous fire behavior.
2. Improving Tactical Decision-Making
Videos like this provide real-world examples to evaluate decision-making under pressure. Training could focus on assessing risk versus reward, reinforcing the importance of calling for evacuation at the right time, and adapting tactics based on changing conditions.
3. Stressing the Importance of Communication
Breakdowns in communication often exacerbate dangerous situations. This scenario could be used to train on clear, concise radio communication to ensure that all personnel are aware of hazards and evacuation orders.
4. Emphasizing Rapid Intervention and Egress
The video could serve as a foundation for training on rapid egress drills, ensuring all firefighters can safely and quickly retreat when conditions become untenable.
5. Learning from Real-World Failures
Examining incidents like this allows firefighters to learn from the mistakes or missteps of others, improving safety culture and decision-making for future incidents.
6. Reinforcing Fire Behavior Knowledge
The video can be used to analyze how fire behavior changes in a structure, helping firefighters better anticipate and respond to dangerous situations.
7. Strengthening Leadership Under Pressure
It’s an excellent opportunity to train officers and command staff on how to maintain control, delegate tasks, and make effective split-second decisions under extreme pressure.

Key Moments: 
Mental Rehearsal (0:43), Mental Rehearsal Drill (2:56), Mental Rehearsal and Mindfulness (5:43), Mindfulness (6:28)
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PUT IT INTO PRACTICE:
Take what you have learned from this video and put it into practice while in full gear performing basic and simple tasks. 

Using the senses in training. (:32)

PUT IT INTO PRACTICE:
Take what you have learned from this video and put it into practice while in full gear performing gear. TAX THE SENSES!

Breathing and the wheel technique
Key Moments of the video: 
Introduction (0:32), Demonstration (1:12), Explanation (1:48), Pass Alarms (4:36), Summary (6:30)
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE:
Take what you have learned from this video and put it into practice while in full gear performing basic and simple tasks (Make sure to incorporate the increased degrees of difficulty to increase the stress for proficiency - ANYBODY CAN DO THIS UNDER MINIMUM STRESS SITUATIONS​). 

Key Moments of the Video:
Bargaining Phase (2:05), Coping Techniques(2:48), Breathing(4:13), Mental Rehearsal(4:25), Meditation(4:31), Neurogenesis(5:06). 

Rick Jorge discusses how the state of hypervigilance originates from the functions firefighters perform on the job, and how changing your mindset can help build resiliency and improve your fireground performance and personal relationships.​