Firefighter Safety

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• Some
• Thoughts
• To
• Ponder

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• Aristotles Definition of a Tragedy
• Well intentioned people, doing what they
• thought was the right thing to do at the
• time, and it turned out to be disastrous.

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• In this business, there isnt any textbook
  operations while an emergency is in progress,
  only after it is under control!

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• Training and Retraining are what reinforces our
  every day performances and skills, leading to a
  safe work environment.

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• Proper Leadership by Officers who also comply
  with the same standards required of subordinates.

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• We are all mortals and vulnerable.
• Just because what we do is for the good of
  mankind does not protect us from
• Death or Injury.

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• Courage is not the
• absence of Fear,
• But the Conquering
• of
• Fear!

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• SAFETY BEGINS WITH PROPER ATTITUDE

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• SAFETY IS
• BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTION.

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• YOU CANT DO THE JOB
• WITHOUT PROPER
• PROTECTIVE
• EQUIPMENT.
• GEAR UP ALL THE TIME!

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• You are responding to an emergency you did not
  create, but will do all you can to relieve
  suffering and mitigate the situation.
• Sometimes success is beyond our control.
• (Dont be so hard on ourselves!)

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• OVER CONFIDENCE
• LEADS TO
• INJURY
• AND
• DEATH

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• FEAR
• IS A GOOD THING.
• IT IS WHAT BRINGS
• YOU BACK FOR THE
• NEXT ALARM

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• COMPLACENCY CAN GET YOU KILLED OR
• INJURED. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE
• DOING AND STAY ALERT.

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• Laziness
• Ego
• Macho Attitude
• All lead to unsafe
• practices.

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• Safety is not an excuse for aggressive
  firefighting!
• You can still be aggressive while staying safe.
• There is a big difference between Safety and
• Cowardice.

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• You are not, Or will not be the most important
  person at the scene of the emergency. You have to
  get there safely before you can be of any value,
  and if for some reason you cannot respond, then
  that is perfectly all right.

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• Dont let the excitement of the Emergency cause
  you to forget to use your better judgment!

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• If you can think It,
• It can happen.
• If you dont prepare for
• It,
• It will happen!

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• Hurt at Work
• You've carefully thought out all the angles.
• You've done it a thousand times.
• It comes naturally to you.
• You know what you're doing, its what you've been
  trained to do your whole life.
• Nothing could possibly go wrong, right ?

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Think Again!
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Safety!

• You Can Live With It!
• and
• It All Begins With Attitude!

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You can make a difference Get back to the basics!

National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Life
Safety Initiatives 2004
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• THE DUMBEST GUY ON EARTH!This picture is real -
  not doctored in any way - and was taken by a
  Transportation Supervisor for a company that
  delivers building materialsfor 84 Lumber. When
  he saw it in the parking lot of IHOP, he went to
  buy a camera to take pictures.

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• The car is still running, as can be witnessed by
  the exhaust. A woman is either asleep or
  otherwise out in the front seat passenger side.
  The driver was jogging up and down on Rt. 925.(in
  the background)Witnesses said their
  physical/mental state was OTHER than normal. The
  driver finally came back after the police were
  called, and was found crouched behind the rear of
  the car, attempting to cut the twine around
  theload! Luckily, the police stopped him and had
  the load removed.

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• The materials were loaded at Home Depot. Their
  store manager said they made the customer sign a
  waiver. While the plywood and 2X4s are fairly
  obvious, what you can t see is the back seat,
  which contains -- are you ready for this? --10
  bags of concrete _at_ 80 lbs. each. They estimated
  the load weight at 3000 lbs.Both back tires
  exploded, the wheels bent and the back shocks
  were driven through the floorboard.The car, with
  FLA(naturally) plates, was headed for Columbiana,
  Al. wherethe couple presumably planned to build
  a new house.

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