Essay on The Fire Station

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.

In West Warwick Rhode Island, on February 20th, 2003, during the performance of the band Great White, a fire broke out that eventually claimed the lives of 100 people and injured an additional 200. The band’s tour manager arranged for, and ignited pyrotechnic props, large fireworks designed to display a shower of sparks. The sparks ignited foam soundproofing near stage. The fire spread quickly. Most were killed either in the crush to exit the building or overcome by fumes while trying to find an exit. The immediate cause was well documented due to witness reports and a videotape that was taken during the concert. In the period that followed the tragedy there were many attempts to fix blame. Following a Grand Jury

The Great Chicago Fire was one of the significant devastation that happened in the eighteenth century. Through this tragic event, hundreds of people died and thousands of buildings were completely destroyed in the fire. Before, the city was flourishing as more people traveled and decided to call Chicago their home. After the fire destroyed most of the surrounding area, people began blaming one another for the deaths of all the people. As time passed, Chicago slowly began to rebuild like never before. Although the city of Chicago continued to grow before the fire, after, the city boomed with the abundance of money and people. Moreover, because there was destruction, the people of Chicago, Illinois did not allow a fire to stop them from creating more opportunities for the future. The city has changed from the fire, but because of the help that was received, it was able to get rebuilt, and invite new individuals to explore the wondrous city of Chicago.

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

Sometimes everyone feels like giving up, and the only thing a person can rely on is his will to survive. Giving up is admitting defeat, in every circumstance. In the story by Jack London, To Build a Fire, the main character learns a hard lesson of reality, when he meets his fate. The result came about because of many factors, mainly the man’s lack of psychological perserverance on the journey, as well as the harsh temperature and surroundings. If there was any hope for the man to survive these conditions, it would rely wholey on his persistance and motivation. The man expected his fate after it was too late to change it, weighing all the variables and realizing there was no probable way to escape his prediciment. The man’s fate was

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.

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.

The workers were getting settled in there desk for a day of work. When suddenly weird things started happening to the building. The workers started to smell a burning smell. They thought nothing of it maybe a worker had just burnt something in the break room. The burning smell started to intensify. All of a sudden the fire alarms started screaming. Workers started to panic because they were scared of fires since the building was tall and they might not be able to get out. The lights started flickering and then they heard a very loud bang! The lights had went out, the only light that they could see was the morning sun raze. A voice came over the intercom saying you all are going to

Fisher and paul watched an old red fire engine cruising slowly up and down the streets. The fire engine turned in there direction. They waved and hollered and manages to attract the driver’s attention. When the engine rolled up in front of our house and the driver got out, he came alone. He had on knee-high black and yellow boots, a pair of cutoff shorts, and a white t-shirt that had Tangerine Volunteer Fire Department Wayne written over breast pocket.

The Chicago fire was a huge part of our history. We can never forget about the Chicago fire because it changed how some people lived. The Chicago fire affected people in many ways. Many people had an idea about how the fire started, where it started and who caused it. It took years to rebuild what had been destroyed, the effect of the chicago fire was remarkable.

On the night of October 8, 1871 at 9:00pm, a horrible fire broke loose. Very dry weather, leaving the ground dry, the wooden city vulnerable. The abundance of wooden buildings a fire started in a barn, outside in Chicago behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary at 13 Dekoven street. The Great Chicago Fire people are saying was caused by the cow of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary kicked a lantern. No one really doesn’t know how this great fire was started but some theories say humans or a matador caused this fire.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) both provide protection and safety for the people of Chicago (City of Chicago, 2017). There are two police stations that serve the Uptown community area – they are in the 19th and 20th districts. The 19th district is located on Addison and Halsted and controls the area north of Fullerton and south of Lawrence. They serve as far east as Lake Michigan and as far west as the Chicago River (California/Rockwell). The 20th district is located on Lincoln and Balmoral and controls the area south of Peterson and north of Lawrence. They also serve as far east as Lake Michigan, but their boundaries go as far west as Kedzie (Chicago Police Department, 2017).

The city of Chicago had just started to grow and everyone was happily adapting to the changes. Little did the citizens of Chicago know, one of the scariest events of their lives was soon to come. It had been an unusually dry summer and fall for downtown Chicago in 1871. In the weeks prior to October 8th, numerous small fires had occurred because of the drought. Some of the fires would only burn down one or two houses, while some destroyed a couple buildings. The people anxiously waited for rainfall, but it came too late. Starting on October 8th and dying out on October 10th, a huge fire took place on the Southwest side of Chicago that would change the city of Chicago forever. No matter the cause that started the fire, the effect will last forever.

Chicago Fire is a TV show that airs on NBC at nine o’clock central time on Tuesdays. This show started in 2012 as a new action packed drama. In 2013, Chicago Fire got an abundance of views. Therefore, it sparked Chicago P.D. to initiate. These everyday heroes, who are firemen and paramedics, basically live and survive inside Firehouse 51. Firehouse 51 consists of Rescue Squad 3, Truck 81, and Ambulance 61. Each week, these prodigious actors have conflicts that require them all to work together to solve. These complications keep you on the edge of your seat at all times!

Fire prevention is a term being heard more and more today in America. It is starting to become a standard in today’s fire departments. Fire has the ability to keep us warm and also has the ability to make us homeless. As we grow as community and the technology changes, Fire Prevention needs to be made more of a necessity in our homes today. More homes are being built out of lighter material along with being built closer and closer together. Each can lead to extreme destruction, homes being lost, people being displaced, and even death. Why should we not protect homes and defend them against an enemy that can attack at any minute? Fire prevention needs to start in the home and then be carried onward in our lives. There are very