FDIC 2013 Featured Presentations we should all learn from

Bobby Halton - The Value of Instructor's

 

Battalion Chief Michael Wallace - The Fireman's Standard

Sometimes good enough isn't good enough

 

 

 

 

So ... It's only a car fire?

Learn all you can from others. Learn strengths, learn weaknesses, seek opportunity and determine what threatens your success relative to changing culture. Social media and You Tube for example. So many fire films to... view. All offer strengths, weaknesses and opportunity. We can watch and admire what is being done or pass off what we see as "what the heck are they doing." In recent weeks I have been reminded why Charlie Dickinson, former Deputy US Fire Administrator says that we think fires are routine or that we think like the public, it's never going to happen to us. In my case, car fires. More and more video is popping up with firefighters and vehicle fires. Have they (car fires) become so routine that we think things cannot go wrong? Is it silly to think that addressing "car fires" means I have to much time on my hands or that there are more important things to address? No! In fact there is not enough time to teach fire companies that minor risks grow into significant risks and significant risk can lead serious consequences. If lecturing about why full PPE and SCBA are needed when fighting vehicle fires bothers you, then please watch this short clip to see if you might feel differently, see it differently and fight them differently. It does not matter your rank. What matters is your conviction regarding firefighter safety and your willingness to stand on those convictions even when it means standing alone. Vehicle fires are more than routine. Think about it!

 

 

 

 NEW DOT Updates ERG 2012

 

 

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