Volunteer Fire Fighter Dies While Lost in Residential Structure Fire

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.

Ever since I was a young boy, I always wanted to be a firefighter. I played firefighter with my friends and we pretended to put our house and other objects out with the garden hose. We would jump out of the back of my dad’s truck with our hose just like the firefighters jumping out of their trucks. Every time I would see the fire truck drive by I would wave and say to my mom, “that is going to be me one day.”

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 day of 9/11, I remember waking up to hearing the news on television that the Twin Towers were purposefully struck by jetliners. Then, I remember the news anchors on the television being dead silent as the towers crumbled to what is now known as, Ground Zero. I continued to watch in disbelief holding my mom’s hand asking what was exactly going on. She then walked me to elementary school down our block and it was the most eerie feeling of silence I have ever heard to this day. Wanting to be a Firefighter/Paramedic since the age of four years old, this event in history has impacted me in a drastic way. Three hundred forty three firefighters were killed by trying to answer the 9-1-1 call from hell. Each and every one of them did not question what they were up against. They knew that their duty was to respond and resolve the situation. In the video World Trade Center Dispatch 9/11/01, from the one minute mark of the dispatcher saying, “send every available unit you got to the World Trade Center” to the forty six minute mark of the dispatcher giving response to every company that was at the scene with none of them responding back; the audio was surreal and unnatural the entire time. This point is vital to include because it shows the extent of what was taking place. The New York City Fire Department needed an army of firefighters to be at the scene and

This paper will look at NFPA 472 and what it does to protect the FireFighter. NFPA 472 is a very interesting standard as it is the standard of competence of responders to hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction incidents. The purpose of this standard is to specify the minimum effectiveness for those who respond to hazardous materials and WMD incidents and necessary for a risk based response to the incidents. Hazmat situations can be a very tricky situation with all the recently introduced acids and gasoline of the current era. NFPA 472 keeps the FireFighter safe and effective on duty.

In 2012 I joined the Harlan Fire Department continuing my long standing commitment to my community as a volunteer firefighter EMT.  As a member of the fire department I respond to many different types of calls.  Some of these calls include but are not limited to wildland fires, structure fires, car accidents, and medical calls.  As an active member I was qualified as a Firefighter/EMT, confined space rescue technician, and technical rope rescue technician.   We have a wide range of equipment ranging from type one to type six engines, a heavy rescue truck, UTV, and a 75' ladder truck. With the equipment and training I was a part of a successful grain bin rescue saving the life of one local farmer and part of a successful rescue of a trapped

Firefighter III Joseph K. Wilson is a valuable member of our crew, and his teamwork is apparent in his eagerness to lend help whenever needed. For example, Firefighter Lieutenant Charles Eggers conveyed how impressed he was with Firefighter III Wilson's performance at a structure fire on August 15, 2015. He praised Firefighter III Wilson for being instrumental in the quick stabilization of the incident, in which crews were able to prevent a significant amount of property and content loss for the homeowner. Similarly, Firefighter III Wilson has demonstrated grace, patience and restraint in dealing with difficult personnel issues over the past year, showing maturity in handling conflict. When frustrated, Firefighter III Wilson is able to remove

Rules and regulations are put in place so that one can have a safe working a safe environment, not only for oneself, but for everyone in the fire department. One will discuss the major problems, potential solutions and recommendation to correct the problem.

For many years, the fire service has been behind the times in scientific advancements in regards to fire tactics, fire behavior, and fire equipment. Through the investigation and experiments of the National Institute of Standards and Technology over the last few years, the fire service has seen enormous strides in research that has changed the mentality of the fire service for the better in my opinion. This paper will cover a little background of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with how NIST has changed the fire service for the better, and is NIST good for the fire service as a whole.

As a firefighter sitting here miles away not being on scene, it’s hard to critique the fire tactics. However, there are many things that we can learn from his tragedy. I can only make recommendations based on my own trend of thought gained from personal knowledge, experience and how my department operates. As an agency, we dispatch on a commercial structural fire: 2 chiefs, 3 engines, 1 ladder, 2 rescues. The initial alarm

     After visiting some actual fire departments, I realized as a firefighter you certainly have a lot to be proud of. It’s not your average job and does require quite a bit of organization to stay on top of everything. Everyday you have to be ready and prepared for just about anything that can happen. You never know what kinds

As a younger man, I had just started the fire-training academy and after the first week, my cadet class met our instructors for the first time. All of my classmates were seated in the classroom and two older firefighters walked in and as we rose to come to “attention”, the larger one spoke and told us to take our seats. He had a crisp uniform, salt and pepper grey hair and was clearly the senior officer. After a couple of brief introductions; he started to tell us about our weeks and months ahead, daily physical training, classroom lectures, fire training evolutions, clean up duties and such.

The comradery with the men and women in the fire service is very unique. Everyone serving is considered a brother or a sister to another firefighter. This family will accomplish anything it takes to save another member of the service. For example, a firefighter becomes pinned under a burning roof rafter. The panic of the situation causes the downed firefighter

With that being said, there was also no thorough explanation of the circumstances and claims. There was a tendency to just state the problem and what could potentially happen in the near future, consequentially causing the opposite of what the NAE wanted to stir in the readers; indifference. Ultimately, had the effort to literally quote and explain research studies, maybe the audience would fully believe the NAE’s report.

Looking at the changes in fire service little has been done in totality to address firefighter deaths. In fact one of the most