Fire Service Research Paper

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

This commission helped usher in much needed changes on the labor side, which after a few years developed into the New York State Department of Labor (aflcio.org, 2017). The fire also helped fire departments not only in New York City, but all over the Nation at that time, make changes to how they operate. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), which was founded in eighteen ninety-six, declared at its annual meeting right after the fire, to all departments nation-wide, how important fire-drills were to life safety (Teague & Farr, 2009). A few years later the NFPA formed the Committee on Safety to Life to help with fire codes, regulations and departments. Several years after its development, they adopted revised specifications to fire escapes, and worked on specific regulations to exits to buildings and the Building Exit Codes (Teague & Farr, 2009). All of their work helped bring items like fire drills, egress from buildings, sprinklers, fire escapes, and other building code changes. Fire Departments all over the Nation were also helped and their eagerness to improve and update their equipment to meet the needs of a changing, and more industrialized and upward-bound Nation took full effect. Improved safety nets, ladders and equipment to reach taller buildings, more water access points and better personal safety equipment were all a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the efforts of the

While dangerous work like firefighting often requires decisive and quick action against one of nature’s most destructive elements, do the inherent risks of firefighting justify risky decision-making by officials? In this dangerous and often daring line of work, when is the line between protecting the public and protecting public employees crossed – and who is responsible when that line is crossed?

Chief Glenn Gaines (2012) argues that socioeconomic trends drive a need for decisive action to protect fire service quality, and offers solutions like

The fire service has long-standing traditions dating back to the 18th Century, whether it is the color red on fire apparatus or the shape of their helmets. Some traditions are important in the American fire service while others traditions are dangerous or unneeded practices but still, exist for a variety of reasons. One of the biggest challenges to making changes requires the changing of the culture within the fire service.

This we can smally infer that the firemen had not been prepared for this kind of situation had no care for human value or

This tragic fire demonstrated how the fire inspections and precautions were noticeably lacking safety for these workers even though “a little more than five months before the tragedy Firemen Edward F. O’Conner made a routine inspection and said the Asch Building was ‘good’ and the building was ‘fireproof’”(28). The fire finally died down with over one hundred dead bodies piled along the streets. Sunday morning “thousands of people began to form into a slowly moving parade around the city blocks”(89). The people were walking in honor of these workers and would go around trying to identify the bodies and confiscate any items the bodies my have possessed for reminiscences. On the other hand, the departments felt immediate quilt for not stepping in to fix the Asch building before, because the departments knew of the horrible safety and health precautions the Asch building had but nobody emphasized the problems. “But who was to blame?” (113). Chief Croker was quick to blame

Inherently the fire service operates in high-risk environments to facilitate the role of preserving life safety and property conservation. How these incidents are managed and safeguarded by our administration

Although there were structural policies in the agency, it did the opposite of how the employee should behave on the job. The OCI analysis the department’s allegations and mentions its additional findings, but does not indicate why there was a need for many of the LAFD sworn personnel to participate in this cheating scandal. A City of Los Angeles Firefighter has a variety of benefits such as getting full dental, health, vision, and pension plan so this could be one of the reasons why many of the LAFD sworn personnel wanted to get the examination materials to help out their families join the LAFD. If we had some sort of evidence of what made many of the LAFD sworn personnel to commit this kind of act, then we would know the kind of factors that play into not following the core values of the organization. Perhaps, their act was an influence by peer pressure or other priorities that made them ignored the mission of the

There are many important issues regarding the U.S. Legal System that the fire service must keep in mind in order to ensure that the coming and goings of firefighters is done without disrupting this incredibly detailed system. In my opinion, while there is no limit to the complications that can result from those in the fire service disregarding laws and procedures; the most far-reaching are those resulting from search and seizure issues.

In my opinion the culture in fire and emergency services are very important for many reason. I believe safety and pride are the two most important parts of the fire and emergency services. With out safety there would be no fire and emergency services. We as a emergency services commuinty need to take a step back from all the tough guy persona and reinstill that safety is number one not who has the cooler bend on their helmet, who has more fires, what color your skin is, personal beliefs or preferences are and get back to the basic worry about proper training and make sure that your 100% ready when its time to spring into action. That is what I think can and needs to be done to improve the fire and emergency services.

We are the most technically advanced nation in the free world but yet we have not been able to reduce the number of firefighter fatalities over the years. Its one of the great mysteries of the world today. Our gear is better than what they wore thirty years ago, its better than what they wore ten years ago and we still lose an average of one hundred firefighters every year. I know that not all are dying in structure fires but just one is one too many.

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.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH, along with numerous other Health organizations completed a study that showed the rate at which structural fire fighters are diagnosed with various forms of cancer compared to the normal population has increased dramatically since 2010. The study found that fire fighters are greater than 9% more likely to develop cancer, have a 14% higher mortality rate once they are diagnosed, and more than twice as likely to develop, two of the more preventable forms of cancer (Testicular and Skin). The International Association of Fire Chiefs along with the International Association of Fire Fighters has adopted strategies and guidelines to help reduce these statistics.

     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