Case Study: The Southport Volunteer Fire Department

There are many areas in the fire service where potential lawsuits and liability can arise; some of these areas include, but are most definitely not limited to negligence, hazing, and not following the fire department’s SOPs/SOGs. As our society has changed, so has its expectations of those in emergency services—while many in the community may think of firefighters as the pinnacle of what an upstanding citizen must look like, there are countless moral and ethical pitfalls that firefighters can fall prey to and diminish the reputation of the fire service.

Based on what I read, the answer to protecting firefighter is a combination of policy, procedure implementation, and training. These are important not only to prevent death, but also to prevent any types of injuries. The Jersey City Fire Department (JCFD) trains its members on the Incident Command System and there are procedures for the members to use it (New Jersey Division of Fire Safety, 1993, p. 5). Additionally, they are trained to use the Jersey City Incident Command System (JCICS), based on the National Fire Academy’s system. Better yet, the members of the JCFD use the JCICS on all incidents. The JCICS would help to avoid miscommunication among the emergency personnel. The JCFD also provide firefighters with ladder training daily. The

After the dreadful attacks of 9/11/01 I Dan Mcwilliams and 2 other firefighters restored America’s patriotism and pride. That fateful day George and I were racing to the attack site when I spotted a American flag hanging on a yacht indocked in the Hudson river. “Gimme a hand, will ya George?” i said trying to get the flag down luckily my childhood friend Billy Eisengrien was nearby he exclaimed “You need a hand?”.

A new national holiday I would like to honor is National Firefighter day. A national holiday is usually a day off of school and-or work. We take these days off to honor their accomplishments and impacts on society! Firefighters have been around for God knows how long and have put out more fires than you can count!!

Firefighter Lee has to learn to consult his manual before he asks his commanding officer's advice. Firefighter Hendricks should of aggressively pursued additional training when the Captain innovated this program. Before Firefighter Johnson takes the June 2007 exam, he will have passed several shorter tests. Recruit Henandez could have been the best student at the fire academy if he had studied

Sellafield Ltd is one of the largest companies responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing and nuclear waste management activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). NDA is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004. They are a strategic authority that owns 19 sites and the associated civil nuclear liabilities and assets of the public sector. Their mission is to deliver safe, sustainable and publicly acceptable solutions to the challenge of nuclear clean-up and waste management. Meaning they will never compromise on safety, or security, taking full account of the social and environmental responsibilities, always seeking value for money for the tax payer, and actively engaging with stakeholders. (Sellafield LTD, 2017)

As the fire service advances and changes there will be continuous stress and dangerous/ traumatic events that impact the firefighters mental health in a negative way. These mental health issues are labeled as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and firefighter suicide. There are large arrays of people who believe that firefighters were brave and no situation would ever change a firefighter’s way of thinking. However, as time moved on side effects from the emergencies that firefighters were responding to, began to present sides of mental health problems. This report will provide detailed facts such as the result, impact, or other subjects in relation to the two main issues above. Firefighter deaths are rising rapidly, members of the fire service need to be educated on PTSD and suicide to provide treatment before another devastating event occurs in result of the issues effects.

England: In the UK, London suffered great fires in 798, 982, 989, 1212 and above all in 1666 (the Great Fire of London). The Great Fire of London in 1666 set in motion changes which laid the foundations for organized firefighting in the future. In the wake of the Great Fire, the City Council established the first fire insurance company, "The Fire Office", in 1667, which employed small teams of Thames watermen as firefighters and provided them with uniforms and arm badges showing the company to which they belonged. The Great Fire of 1666 started in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane, consumed about two square miles (5 km²) of the city, leaving tens of thousands homeless. Prior to this fire, London had no organized fire protection system. Afterwards,

By breaking down the quadrants it gives a clear vision on how and why the approaches are needed in correspondence to the different situations. Quadrant One is associated with the situations in relation to the cultural environment surrounding the organisation in which may not be appropriate any longer. For change like this,  it needs to be made on a wide scale, either for the complete organisation, or the majority of it, the Emergent approach; such as (Kanter Et Al’s 1992 Long March) which focuses on both the collaborative and political ideas of change that are more appropriate then current states. The Essex Fire And Rescue Review (2015) support the idea of change in culture that may not be appropriate any longer in that environment. An independent review of claims of intimidation at a fire service has found evidence of “dangerous and pervasive bullying”. The cultural review was commissioned by Essex Fire Authority last year after bullying was reported and two serving fire-fighters took their own lives (Guardian 2015). This idea is supported by the (Independent Cultural Review Of County Essex Fire and Rescue Service 2015) who claim If culture is to change then senior leadership is absolutely critical, in terms of both modelling behaviour and giving permissions to subordinate staff to innovate and appropriately challenge poor performance – including that of management. Taking an emergent approach to change management really highlights the ways in which nature is

NIOSH investigators concluded to minimize the risk of reoccuring events, fire departments should include pre-plan surveys of buildings throughout the districts. Often times, during the pre-plan phases, fire departments will make suggestions to business owners about the hazardous materials and not following up on the suggestions that they make. Pre-planning older buildings should occur often to promote safety to the firefighters. Basic walk through measures will give the fire personnel a better picture of the building and what hazards are present in the building. Ensure that all the fire crews coordinate ventilation with fire attack. Ventilation should occur prior to interior fire attack, to reduce the heat, smoke and other toxic gases inside the

It is a blistering hot, dry day and everyone in your neighborhood is in their lawn with their barbeques burning and having a good time. All of a sudden, the family pet dog, Sparky, runs by and knocks over the charcoal grill on accident, the ashes land on the dry landscaping adjacent to the house and a blaze begins. Flames spread and start to burn the siding on the house and before you know it, the whole backside of the house is on fire. Now, in a moment like this, who would you call? The local fire department of course! As these men go in a burning building, dawning SCOTTs air packs and full turnout gear, and risking life and limb, how did these firefighting brigades begin?

Candidate Maley's brief of the five paragraph order to his fire team covered all the main key points, but he had all three members face outboard (to provide security) which could have caused his brief to be ineffective and unclear. SNC did however display a good leadership trait after the brief by having the three team members repeat their individually assigned tasks prior to the start of the course. SNC did not brief an initial plan of execution which could have caused a friction point upon execution. Upon start of the problem, SNC was able to make a hasty adjustment to his original plan after the rope and a member of his team were penalized for touching a red area. SNC displayed effective and constant communication throughout the course.

The fire service is full of rituals and traditions, some of which lends to the nostalgia of ceremonies and public events. Other rituals and traditions are practices that need to be left in the past; horseplay, hazing, and harassing the new recruits. Using an internet search engine to look for headline incidents of hazing and subsequent filing of a grievance will result in a plethora of articles about firefighter hazing incidents. Although hazing is meant to be a tool to test one’s commitment or a passed on a tradition that the perpetrators themselves were subjected too, hazing often involves unpleasant and heinous acts that can have serious physical or emotional consequences that lead to costly grievances.

The assignment of the Nashville Fire Department Fire Marshal’s Office is to defend our neighborhood from the dangers of fire, flare-ups and other dangerous circumstances. This assignment will be achieved over and done with the appraisal of fire safety strategies and sprinkler strategy designs, fire inquiries as well as obedience scrutiny keep on the appropriate code of practice of Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. We will energetically partake with our neighborhood, complete as role models, and do your best to effectually and capably make use of all assets made easy to get to, to arrange for protection and brilliant consumer amenity to the nations, companies and guests of Davidson County. The Nashville Fire Department

Griffith Fire Units and this officer responded to 1519 N Arbogast in reference to an odor investigation. Upon arrival, this officer determined an unknown person(s) poured ammonia on all three floors in the common areas. Griffith Fire Units handled the haz-mat situation created by the odor. Mansards personnel arrived on scene and contacted a carpet cleaning company. This officer cleared without incident.