Evolution Of Firefighting

Matthew E. Barnes was a firefighter who could be called many things including a hero, a friend, a husband, a father and even an angel. The story begins like many 9/11 stories do, with the planes being hijacked, he was one of the men working that day in the New York City Fire Department that would go into the World Trade Center, but would never come out. The 37-year old resident of Monroe, New York was a father to three boys and the husband to Ms. Susan Barnes; he would spend all his available time with his family, somehow slipping out of chores and such just to go fishing with his boys. Two years before the 9/11 he had saved two twins, Isabella and Jacob Kalodner from a fire in their mother, Linda Kalodner’s apartment, by climbing up a 100-foot aerial ladder to the 10th story to save the 6 week old twins.

Much like the firefighters in 911 (figure 1); many people would say that a firefighter’s health is very important. Life is a precious thing and before we sit around and let controlled burnings take control, we should protect the lives of those who protect us.

To better understand the background of the contrasting views, we must look at how the fire service has developed around

Pursuing the career of firefighting can be a very rewarding experience, however being a home town hero and saving lives is not always an easy task. Firefighters have to be ready for anything at any time whether it be responding to a car accident or a structure fire; they have to be prepared. Firefighters also have to have the ability to handle stress as well as have strong physical capabilities. In Ontario, there are many testing processes that aspiring firefighters have to take part in before they can be recruited. The testing components include a written aptitude test to measure reading and writing comprehension, as well as physical testing that includes aerobic and job related skills.

Fire service personnel, regardless of rank have a duty to protect life and property from fire and other hazards. Other duties include carrying out risk assessments, enforcing fire legislation and educating the community. The fire fighters duties include attending emergency incidents, dealing with fires, flooding, chemical spillages, terrorist incidents and checking water hydrants. All members will need to be disciplined correctly to carry out every aspect of being a fire fighter.

A firefighter is not just called to fires while that is there name many are trained in emergency medical services (EMS). Three fourths of the calls a firefighter runs on are medical emergencies including car wrecks. Other dispatches include; Tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, or any other life threatening occurrences . Many times firefighters work right alongside law enforcement officers.

There are many differences in the firemen jobs between our society and the society in Fahrenheit 451. first imagining Montag’s world, you see local firemen starting the fires instead of putting them out, and supposedly that is how it’s been throughout their history. On page 6, the text states, “Clarisse said, 'is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?'“ First of all, firemen in our society don’t start the fires, they prevent them. There has never been a time where someone has called a fireman to help start a fire at their place being. And surely our society does not allow firemen to burn all our personal belongings, nor burn us with it. Montag’s Society does all of these horrible expectations and so much more. Another terrible aspect in the firemen jobs in Fahrenheit 451 is how they leave the people in the burning

Have you ever heard about a society that burns houses instead of putting them out? The book, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is Science Fiction. In this book, Guy Montag is a firefighter that causes fires instead of putting them out. He began to question about his society when he met a young girl named Clarisse McClellan. He is also married to Mildred, who tries to suicide by taking too many sleeping pills and is out of her mind. In this society, the purpose of being a firefighter is to burn houses that hold books in them and arrest or kill the people who had been hiding the books. Towards the end of the story, Montag soon realizes that books can give you the knowledge one needs. The best way to keep that knowledge without someone

Firemen, while intimidating to the general public, are widely accepted and respected. This means that they serve as an embodiment of the public as a whole. In their hands fire is used to

According the agency of the Department of Homeland Security states that motor vehicles crashes are the leading cause of death for an on-line duty fireman. Other significant causes of death are: caught/trapped (10%), fall (5%), collapse (3%), and other (7%). Intentions of firefighters are to make the community safe as possible, but we the people need to think twice before we do anything else when dealing with fire. The other things that it 's a national problem for firefighters is not wearing their seat belts when driving out to an emergency. They are so focused on saving our lives when first it 's supposed to be the opposite, their safety is first, but firemen put their lives at risk.

We all know that the first fire department was not really a department it was more or less the whole community that consisted of anyone old enough with buckets passing them in a line also known as a buckets brigades. There were also what were known as a fire watched that was the first early detection of a fire. They were made up of one to two people sitting somewhere in the city high up just looking for a fire. When they did see one break out they rang a bell or rattle.

For years if not decades, firefighters have responded to a reported structure fire that turned out to be a fully involved single room. This fire scenario requires a core set of fire tactics and skills to control and extinguished the fire, but is it this simple? Perhaps twenty years it may have been, but new dangers are lurking in every scenario and may have detrimental outcomes for unsuspecting and unaware firefighters and victims. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) agency along with the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) have been conducting research to understand fire behavior and fire dynamics. This research is providing firefighters with new information about how and why

Firefighters are ordinary, standard people who put themselves in dangerous situations to save faultless people. For instance, firefighters are rescuers, who are trained to extinguish uncontrolled fires. This

Much like all events and natural phenomena that pose a threat to civilization, humans have learned to cope with and prevent the loss of human life and destruction of property in devastating blazes that can break out seemingly at random. Fighting fires was not always the science it is today, but due to the use of new technologies and the fundamental understanding of what fire is, how it spreads, how it can kill, and how it is stopped, our protocol when dealing with fires has increased our success rate and continues to grow with applications of engineering, chemistry, and meteorology.

     In the past, most people thought firefighters had a pretty easy career. Much of the time they were off work or just laying back waiting for