This is a “public safety officer” in Ohio at a recent fire. Their cops respond to fires with turnout gear in the trunks of their patrol vehicles with others bringing the fire apparatus. As you can see by the picture, this individual is not using SCBA, not using protective equipment and not doing anything positive other than exposing himself to unnecessary cancer, risk, injury and workers comp claims. It’s 2016-with CANCER being the #1 cause of Firefighter death, its unfortunate that this individual and/or the leadership are apparently unaware of how firefighters are to operate in any IDLH environment. There are many Firefighters that did all they could to NOT get cancer-but it wasn’t avoidable-and are fighting the battle of their lives…then there are those taking unnecessary risks for absolutely NO valid reason, and you know the rest of the story… THINK.
