Firefighting

sideline in construction where he feel it is the only place he is rewarded for what he does. “For a leader, the participation of followers is essential” . If my decision reflects only what I personally see or hear, I am not an effective leader. Firefighting is about team work. Involving fire personnel’s in different area of the operations could motivate the crew to do more for their department. To many times I have witnessed officers making decision without consulting with their men where…

If there were one thing that you could change about the fire service, what would it be? Why is that important? (This could be something philosophical, structural, technical, or futuristic.) Preserving the history of the fire service would be the one thing I would like to see better remembered by firefighters in the fire service. Many of our personnel come to the fire service looking for employment and nothing more. The fire service is considerable more than a nine to five, five days a week…

fire fighters and the average situations that they face in their careers and on a daily basis. This experiment shows the emotional regulations the firemen have during traumatic and emotionally demanding situations compared to people outside of the firefighting career. It can also show which of the nine coping strategies, self-blame, other-blame, rumination, catastrophizing, putting into perspective, positive refocusing, positive reappraisal, acceptance, and refocus on planning,…

FIREFIGHTING Career Fair Essay I like Firefighting because I think it is fun, but it is also a dangerous job. Firefighters have to be careful and know what they are doing. as they could be hurt in a fire. I think it would be fun to be a Firefighter. I would be able to spray water on a fire and be part of a team. Firefighters save lives. firefighters have to run into houses that are on fire. Firefighters have to wear a fireproof suit and oxygen masks so they don't get smoke in their lungs.…

For years, the American fire service thought that the number one killer of firefighters were heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies, due to the high number of them and the physical stress of firefighting. The American public probably thinks of the number one killer of firefighters to be thermal injuries or structural collapses. Surprisingly, the most powerful enemy to the fire service, a silent but deadly one, is cancer. When I first started as a Firefighter, a short nine years ago,…

I will be commenting on how my department has changed and resisted change in the past ten years by showing case effect through these three factors socialisation by the fire hall, Fire chief personality and fire department goals. The Bathurst fire department has always been a social club and since it was a composite department many of our members came from every walk of life as volunteers, we had mill workers, news anchors ,managers of companies just to name a few. And most of these members had…

career in the lifesaving field. Firefighting is one of the most dangerous jobs out there, it does, after all, involve running into a structurally unsound, burning building. As with any other dangerous job, firefighting requires quite a bit of training when it comes to equipment, procedures, and general knowledge about the situations one might find themselves in. Unfortunately, I haven’t simply haven’t had enough time to learn everything there is to know about firefighting in the relatively short…

Marshall and that the Fire Marshall is the government authority. Does not clarify the government body. The changes more of a mannor in which that authority is accepted by the membership. This is why we cant get the accountability that we need. Fire Marshall has the authority. Doesnt phase them he is missing the 24000 reports missing from 2014 the state fire marshall doesnt see that the county fire marshall office as a whole orginization. Every other system in the state is under the fire…

The moment you swear in as a firefighter on a new department you join a unique brotherhood. In this brotherhood, you will develop new skills, experience good things and bad things, and you will be adopted into a close knit second family. As we all know, or the majority of us know, firefighters are a pretty unique bunch on individuals. Throughout your time in the fire service you will experience many different things, and because of these experiences you will develop a whole new set of senses,…

25 percent of on duty fatalities for fire fighters every year are caused by emergency vehicle accidents. In 2009 according to the National Fire Protection Association, there where approximately 1,000 fire fighters that were injured in vehicle accidents. The vehicles involved where either fire department apparatus or personal vehicles while responding to or returning to the station from an emergency incident. This shows that there is a need for drivers to be properly trained in how to operate an…