This will be quick-take a look at this video and understand why no matter how many Federal dollars are given to us to do firefighter training, no matter how many national meetings are held, no matter how many studies are done, standards written and no matter whatever else you can think of that is done for us-if the issues of Firefighter Survival aren’t handled "locally" – the ability to unnecessarily injure and kill Firefighters will continue. The potential for Firefighter death is very real in this clip. It has happened before and while many HAVE learned from past Firefighter deaths, the leadership of these people have not. Some may claim that "live fire training" needs to be outlawed, we disagree-we just need to follow the standards-standards that were developed because of firefighters killed doing just what is seen here:
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/news/fullstory/newsid/36756 (Case Study)
