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Date Posted: Friday, June24, 06:34:pm
Author: passing it on
Subject: small doses of reality

Illuminating thoughts from a former Fire Chief. Reposted from his Facebook page.


For all the micromanaging loudmouth mayors out there, a few important things the accountants forgot to tell you:

1- Fires double in size every 30 seconds.
2-When it comes to fire protection, you can’t do more with less. You can only do less with less.
3-Water on the fire is the only way to control a building fire.
4- Accountants and absentee “City Managers” are not Fire Chiefs.
5- Volunteer Fire Departments are hurting. It’s not just a club where you get issued a cool hat. You still have benchmarks and certifications to master before you can do the job. If it was easy, city managers would be able to do it too.

6- COMBINATION DEPARTMENTS ARE STRUGGLING WITH GETTING QUALIFIED VOLUNTEERS OUT. Do some research on Beacon, Kingston, Arlington and Lagrange. Or, go back to the not too distant past and research Poughkeepsie or Newburgh. A quick tip for a real answer: ask the Fire Chiefs, not some dipshit accountant doing a study.

7- There are certain things that need to simultaneously take place at a fire. Everything takes people. Those people have to be proficient, trained, and reliable.
8- Probably, the best people to ask about how to properly staff a fire department, are people who provide the fire protection for your immediate municipality. Not an accountant, not a social worker, not a constituent liaison, not an ex con, and not a school teacher, especially a history teacher. They probably know a lot about what they do for a living, but I bet they don’t know shit about how to staff a fire department.
9- Just because someone accidentally starts a fire, it doesn’t become their fault when they die. Blame starts at the top.
10- When you gamble long enough, and the biological waste hits the oscillating cooling appliance, you will find out that OSHA and NFPA aren’t options.

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