Garland Fire Department: A Case Study

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.

Fire Chief Rick Pavick gave me insight about general information related to the Texarkana, AR fire department. According to Chief Pavick, there are 57 full-time firefighters, however they are still understaffed by 16 at this time. The fires in this community is low in all categories but more house fires occur and is the primary concern. The average response time is 5 minutes on average. There is not a central water supply but there are fire hydrants. The Insurance Services Office (ISO) fire rating is a 5 for this community. The community’s low support for the department financially is related to the community not being aware of the needs of the fire department. The department does offer fire prevention education for the community and adequate

Everyone understands that the fire ground is a fast moving, dynamic, and many times a chaotic environment in the best of situations. However, consider how much more complicated that environment becomes when the IC hears the word "Mayday" on the radio or suddenly realizes that an individual or an entire crew has not been seen or heard from and he has no idea of where to start looking.

On September 11, 2001, planes struck and collapsed the North tower and the South tower of the World Trade Center with many people who died due to acts of terrorism. To declare that terrorism caused all the deaths is a major understatement. At least 1,500 people who survived the attacks had died due to many other factors in or of the building. One of the causes of many lives lost were communications, coordination, and command of the FDNY and the NYPD. In 9/11 the problems of radio communication between firefighters, and the police department impacted the ability for the firefighters to have enough information where the people were trapped on the floor and what floors the fire was on. This issue of communication affected the radio systems of

The safety of my crew is a responsibility that I take personally. I will utilize any and every tool available to me to ensure that they go home safely. Many fire fighters have been seriously hurt or killed do to unrecognized flashover conditions. Under appropriate circumstances, a “transitional attack” can be

There was no question about their expectations; the top priority was to protect incident responders and the public. Incident Commanders were reminded of the Chief’s Letter of Intent, the Wildland Fire Risk Management Protocols, and the need to develop incident medical emergency plans and communication protocols as described in the Dutch Creek Protocols. Teams were asked to have heightened situational awareness, be mindful about life safety when choosing strategies and tactics, and to minimize exposure to risk. Every responder would receive a

NASA firefighters and the Titusville Fire Department each have been given an artifact from the World Trade Center to display to visitors. Both beams are currently en route to Brevard County and will help to honor those who were victims of the 9/11 attacks.

The LA County Fire Department needs to implement an anti-nepotism program. The OCI reported that 27 sworn personnel had access to oral interviews test questions and answer, and use the material to distribute to some of their relatives (Naimo, 2015). According to the OCI, these 27 sworn personnel were two Battalion Chiefs, 17 Fire Captains, one Fire Fighter Specialist, and seven Firefighters (Naimo, 2015). These 27 sworn personnel had no authority to distribute the examination material so it’s important to implement an anti-nepotism program for the whole department. Having an anti-nepotism program can help, especially Fire Captains to understand and follow the department’s series of guidelines, laws and regulations. Furthermore, they can formulate a great judgment, and their leading principle must be accountable to and within the rule of law. Accountability is an element of bureaucratic responsibility that involves public officials to obey the law (Hill & Lynn Jr., 2016).This accomplishes as Mark Bovens argues, increase performance in the workplace, reinforcing integrity, encourage democratic domination, preserving lawfulness and contributing purification after a misfortune (Hill & Lynn Jr., 2016). Discussing the rules and procedures can help employees at the department to perform their task

Since there has not been a train derailment in the city of Oxnard before, first responders and partnering agencies were facing an unfamiliar incident. In the hours post-collision a number of major tasks were achieved. The Oxnard Fire Department (OFD) responded and the Battalion Chief assumed Incident Command (IC), he immediately declared a level 3 Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) and set up a unified command structure, requesting numerous additional resources (National Transportation, 2016c, p. 10). In accordance with the Ventura County Emergency Medical Services (VCEMS) MCI plan “A medical communications officer (MEDCOMM) was assigned at the scene and base hospital contact was initiated with Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC)” (Ventura County,

The situation that is happening with the Bay City Fire Department is very disturbing because they are supposed to be one of the few pillars in the community for people to trust to get their job done, and I believe they have a very important role to fulfill but they are slacking majorly. A few speculations on why they are violating standard operational procedures because that is how the older firefighters did it in the past. Since many of the firefighters in charge are much older than the recruits they have ways of doing tasks differently than the new regulations that were put in place over the years. Another speculation that could be made is that there may not be much commotion in the community and whoever gets to the fire the quickest or to the accident the fastest will get the recognition and the excitement of completing a task. Thirdly, the mild form of hazing that the veterans put the recruits through contributes to why they are not progressing and why many of them are dying in fires. They are taught by the older ones that they have to look and follow specific duties in order to become a real firefighter. The last reason they might be having so many accidents is that the older regulations that the captains are following and the new regulations that recruits are following are clashing literally with the truck crashes and figuratively with ideologies.

The Council Bluffs Fire Department earned 39.3 out of 50 possible points in the 2014 ISO evaluation. Details of the credit earned in the Fire Department section are found in Table 8.

There was no civilian life at stake but fire fighters soon found themselves in harms way even though there was no

Savona, N.Y (WENY) -- A fire department in Steuben County is receiving thousands of dollars in federal funding.

On or 6/17 the CIW Fire Dept was down to 2 “trained inmates” Leaving us 3/0 Staffed . Fire Chief Joel Johnson had the CIW Fire Department start doubling up fire captains on 6/20. At Noon on 6/20 central control contacted us via land line that there was a trash can fire between visiting and the Admin building. Being that this was the weekend the inmates had the day off and we do not house inmates at the fire house. Capt Smith and myself responded to the fire alone . When we arrived at scene we had heavy smoke and fire showing from 40 yard roll off dumpster with immediate exposure threat to the admin building which encompasses the Out Patient Housing Unit, Other direct exposures were 2 additional 40 yard roll offs dumpsters that were also over

The greatest threat facing the Modern Fire Service is the rate at which firefighters are dying in the line of duty. Excluding the terrible event of 9/11 that occurred in 2001 that forever changed the dynamics of the emergency response services1, firefighter deaths have averaged around 100 fatalities each year for the since 1990. This unacceptable rate of firefighter deaths has found its way to be a benchmark in the industry. The problem is that the benchmark should be zero firefighter deaths while on duty and every year that there is a fatality is a year that the fire service has failed its members. The number one cause of firefighter related deaths yearly is proven to be medical, stress, or overexertion related fatalities2. All of these causes of firefighter deaths can be avoided with implementation of training and awareness.