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A Primer on Victim Survivability Profiling and “Taking It To The Streets”...
What you should know or how you should conduct yourself before engaging in debate. Chris Naum’s latest ‘Taking It To The Streets’ program on FirefighterNetcast is “Victim Survivability Profiling” with...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.6:Excuse By Explanation Makes Everything Okay
If near-tragedy happens, does how we explain it make it okay that it happened? A captain and four firefighters are burned in a reported flashover while searching for the seat of the fire in the attic...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.7:What’s Your Point?
If your defense boils down to this, then what are your really trying to say? “When in the course of debate over firefighting strategies, tactics and firefighter safety, as well as the induction of...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.8:If We Did it 100 Years Ago, Is it Still Okay?
Injuries during a “training” event make one wonder, what the hell? This isn’t the planned first post for September, but after working on news it seems worthy of our specific topics. On Long Island,...
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2010 USFA LODD Report:Don’t Celebrate Too Soon
It's the second consecutive drop in total deaths, but is that really cause for joy? Suppose you are a captain in charge of a army company consisting of roughly 200 soldiers. You and your company are...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.9:Questions About Risk
Who is at a greater risk of injury and death? Why? I love rodeos and the PBR; I could watch it for days on end. The riders I follow are J. B. Mauney and Ryan Dirteater (how can you not like a bull...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.10Profiling and Pets
If VSP is to reduce risk of injury and death it should apply to searching for the Golden Doodle, right? This month NIOSH released the firefighter fatality investigation report of the Worcester,...
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Defining Aggressive, Part ITasks and Identity
Understanding the word within its culture Preposition: If a certain word defines our identity and self-worth it is vital to know how we alter such word from its true definition. “Aggressive...
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Senseless in Indiana
How's that pledge thing working out for you? Earlier this week an Indiana volunteer firefighter was killed in a apparatus crash while responding to a brush fire [1]. 26-year old Mark Haudenschild II,...
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Never Ask The Dead
Teaching is of more importance than urging. – Martin Luther During the course of this week the anniversary of a line of duty death appeared on Facebook and with it the expected shares and comments....
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Updated Rhetorical Lesson No.11:Too Many People on The Roof
How do you determine someone else’s limit? Yeah, yeah I know, I know, they aren’t properly using their SCBA. That goes without saying; if you wear it then use it. The “brotherhood” isn’t going to be...
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Making Johnny a Poor Rescuer and Reader
Do you understand what you ‘like’ or do you like whoever posted it? Context is defined as “circumstances or conditions in which something exists or takes place; surroundings.” It is also defined as...
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Rhetorical Lesson No.12: Would Fewer Basics Work in Reducing Our LODDs?
Is over a dozen too many for the upcoming and speed-reading generations? Back in 2004 we were given 16 items, “Life Safety Initiatives”, to help reduce line of duty deaths and they have been working....
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Rhetorical Lesson No.13: Do Large Departments Get a Pass?
If this were in the suburbs, what would the reaction be? I understand. I’ve been there myself, on the roof, no SCBA or sometimes with SCBA but not ‘on air’. I was younger then and with youth...
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