I went to a great seminar today ... After sitting thru it i got to thinking about how the majority of one hundred or so people that represent many different depts . are in two different worlds... The topics discussed spoke on the most effective ways at dealing with different types of constuctions and fire reaction ... But everything is predacated on nfpa standards and the traditional exceptance of what we all agree to be an adequate first alarm response...
Im fortuanate enough to work in a very busy dept outside Boston and we have the ability to place 16 firefighters on the fire ground on a first alarm assignment ... We pride ourseleves in a aggressive interior attack because frankly we have the ability to so ... And, back that up with more than a complete second alarm ..
Many of the Depts. represented had the common theme that im sure most people on this board have ... Pulling up with one two firefighters and maybe one guy driving the ladder or another piece following ... meanwhile people are getting toned out and there is a gap before arrival ...
How can these depts. make any type of an aggressice attack given the manpower.. It really is night and a scary day .. I could not imagine doing the job with anything short of what we have ,,.. And we are down twenty plus bodies...
So while it was on my mind , and i do far more reading than posting,, i thought i would toss this one out there and see some of the different responses....
Im fortuanate enough to work in a very busy dept outside Boston and we have the ability to place 16 firefighters on the fire ground on a first alarm assignment ... We pride ourseleves in a aggressive interior attack because frankly we have the ability to so ... And, back that up with more than a complete second alarm ..
Many of the Depts. represented had the common theme that im sure most people on this board have ... Pulling up with one two firefighters and maybe one guy driving the ladder or another piece following ... meanwhile people are getting toned out and there is a gap before arrival ...
How can these depts. make any type of an aggressice attack given the manpower.. It really is night and a scary day .. I could not imagine doing the job with anything short of what we have ,,.. And we are down twenty plus bodies...
So while it was on my mind , and i do far more reading than posting,, i thought i would toss this one out there and see some of the different responses....
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