Reducing the Number of Firefighter Fatalities One Heart at A Time I doubt that anyone would argue with the statement that firefighting is a dangerous occupation. The natural reaction of most is to flee from a burning building‚ but firefighters are not most people. Firefighters risk their lives on a day-to-day basis rushing to the scene of an emergency‚ fighting blazing fires‚ and entering burning buildings; it is hard to believe that the number one cause of line-of-duty deaths is cardiac events
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Throughout the poem firefighter by Sasha Young it talks about how firefighters never get as much thank yous as they should. Also it talks about how they drop everything in a second to help people‚ even sleep‚ even if they get there and nothing really happens its a guy that can’t reach the phone or a lady that fell out of her bed in the middle of the night‚ or even a person who had a bad dream. The tone admiring‚ and negitive connotiation reflects the idea that you should admire firefighters for who they
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Target : Citizens Fireman Vs. Paramedic Saving lives is the ultimate goal for both a fireman and paramedic‚ but their training and everyday lives are very different. Firemen go through ten to twelve forty hour weeks of classroom and physical training. Paramedics go through two years of intense classroom training and must complete a designated amount of clinical hours‚ and current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course. During both fireman and paramedic training‚ both require extensive hands
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challenges that put a focus on the major details of the fire. The most challenges that stuck out were the lack of communication in the reporting process from the top of the command to the bottom to the firefighter. Without the lack of communication can lead to a bad result in having too many firefighters inside or not enough on the scene. With another thing that was stressed upon the reading was that the building had several violations to the electrical system. With the problem with the electrical
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Imagine being in a life or death situation‚ and you have to risk your life. That is what police officers and firefighters have to do day in and day out. Sometimes people have to take risks to help protect others. Therefore‚ it is necessary to put your life in jeopardy to help and protect others and their property. Police officers must risk their life every day for the safety of their fellow man. They do not always know what the day has ahead of them. It may be a routine day or a day of action
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hear that someone works for the fire department‚ most of them assume that person would be a regular firefighter. That can often be incorrect simply because there are many more jobs in the fire department than just fighting fires and getting scared cats out of tall trees. Some of those other jobs could be: fire Marshall‚ fire chief‚ certified fire instructor (who trains other beginner firefighters)‚ forest fire inspector‚ fire prevention specialist‚ fire investigator‚ and smoke jumper‚ just to name
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Todays fire service faces multiple challenges‚ one of the biggest challenges that threatened our existence is the waning of public support. Since the decline in our economy‚ many politicians have made firefighters their enemy and attacked the fire service. Recently‚ fire department wages have been blamed for our municipality’s dire fiscal condition. A majority of the public has taken note of these attacks and has taken the side of the politicians. Through our actions‚ we must work hard to regain
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Administrator | VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ADMINISTRATOR | Owner | /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ID_OWNER | Controller | /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_ID_CONTROLLER | Fire Fighter | /VIRSA/Z_VFAT_FIREFIGHTER- | Role-based or ID-based firefighting?????????????? 1. Firefighter id list. Firefighter ID users as type Service a. How many FF id’s for each process area. b. How do we segregate FF id’s. It can be done based on Display and Change t-codes. c. Naming of FF id’s. 2. Owner List 3. Controller List 4.
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Running head: How becoming a Company Officer has changed me How becoming a Company Officer has changed me and traits that make me a good fire officer Captain John Elder Fire and Emergency Services Abstract This is probably the hardest transition you will ever make in the fire service. Without many good traits it will be even more difficult. You will go from being one of the guys to being their boss‚ and having to coach‚ discipline‚ train them. Everyone under you will look at
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risks involved with the profession. A Firefighter can be both a positive and negative‚ as they help the lives of many people everyday but may also hold the ultimate sacrifice of losing their own life because of the risks involved. Currently the Firefighting industry holds extreme value within the society. All types of members within the community hold the upmost respect for the men and women that risk their lives every day to help others in need. Firefighters are not just there to protect people
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