Fire apparatus

abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all been documented. Those who set fires other than for profit are frequently called pyromaniacs. In the first research article, Firesetters Admitted to a Maximum Security Psychiatric Institution published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence in…

Gerald Lawrence 12/13/16 The National Fire Protection Association is a United States trade association, albeit with some international members, that creates and maintains private, copyrighted standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments. It is also know as saving as many lives as possible. NFPA has played a great role in fire preventing for over then 10 years now. Standard 25 is the standard that will be the one that is highlighted in this essay. The NFPA 25 the…

The fire service is more than that “cool place, with the big red truck that makes loud noises and spits water out” The fire service plays a big role in our society to this day. Without the fire service who would put out the fire that you made when you tried to make microwave noodles and forgot to put the water in. The fire service dates to the Rome some 2,000 years ago. They had people roam around the city and sound the alarm if a fire were ever to occur. These people that were selected were…

shipboard firefighter deals with fires involving ships. They deal with ships that are out in the ocean. They also deal with the port that ships dock on. This firefighter is the least talked about firefighter for this job. The third firefighter is the wildfire firefighter. The wildfire firefighter is talked about but not as much as the structural firefighter. This firefighter does what it sounds like it does. This firefighter puts out fires that happen in forest. They prevent fires in the…

accidents when there is an open fire As the old adage goes, “ Fire is a good servant but a bad master.” Although fire has numerous good uses such as aiding us in cooking, keeping warm, roasting food and the list goes on, it can also bring about adverse effects and irreparable damage. This can be prevented if the fire safety precaution is taken and people are educated about the danger lurking around houses furniture(for eg. Electrical appliances) which may potentially spark a fire. A few ways of…

These are for first-aid fire fighting and overhaul operations and the reference is Section 12.2.1. The exception is for the protection of Class I-IV commodities stored 12 ft or less in height per Section 12.2.2. As such, this applies to…

Fire Inspectors 5 Most Common Violations Building owners and managers have a very tough job to do - from dealing with maintenance, security, tenant issues and government compliance. Always considering fire safety ensures that some very simple, but sometimes overlooked, items are addressed and small problems are alleviated before they turn into big catastrophes. A lack of handling routine maintenance items can end in disaster. The fire at The Station Nightclub in 2003, where 100 people were…

The Georgia laws against the crime of arson are divided into three degrees of severity; first, second and third degree arson which can be found under Georgia Code Title 16, Sections 16-7-60, 16-7-61 and 16-7-63. All degrees of arson in the state of Georgia are prosecuted as felonies. Although the penalties for each degree are slightly different as well as their definitions, they have all been expanded through the years to cover the burning of any type of property. i.e. personal property,…

while using portable radios; awareness and educational training among fire fighters. 2.2 Abstract Fire fighters are issued with portable radios for communication when line of sight communications are impractical. On emergency incidents fire fighters use portable radios as primary communication source, without them controlling and managing these incidents would be impossible. This day to day use of the portable radio makes fire fighters more susceptible to radio frequency radiation emitted by…

I will be commenting on the following dilemma a fire chief than is working to serve his firefighters to protect the community versus a fire chief that works for the government to protect the community. I will indicate if this dilemma is true or false and why. Being a leader of a Fire service in any place in our modern world is no easy task with more and more being demanded from communities and less that governments want to provide the harder this task will become in the future. Through reading…