Firefighting

2. TITLE AND ABSTRACT 2.1 Title Radio frequency radiation exposure 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…

“Don 't you dare come any closer!” said a corpulent man, holding a broken piece of glass that was on the floor. Adam Corcuera and Steven Blackwell were the first paramedics to the KFC and were trying to tend to the stab victim on the floor but this bellicose individual would not let them. So the paramedics had no choice but to wait for the police to show up. While they were waiting Adam was staring at the stab victim and knew he only had minutes to live if he did not get immediate medical…

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…

The Call That Changed My Life I was 18 Years Old, brand new on Groveland Fire Department with only a few months of experience, I recently graduated High School, I recount a call that has forever changed who I was and made me into who I aspire to be. What you’re about to read will take you not only through my eyes, but my choices, my compassion & commitment to helping others, and the remorse that follows first responders with tragic events that the public rarely sees, knowing that despite you…

Anthony Liriano English 201-1507 Proffesor T. Callender Friday April 17, 2015 Fireman and Policeman Prayer poem The duty of a fireman and a police officer is to protect every citizens of the United States by putting their life on the line. Both department have a prayer for every time they go on tour to keep their faith so at the end of the day they can go home. Just imagine a parent coming home one day from work and seeing his or her apartment burned out by a fire and he or she drop to…

In 1871 the first ever official Fire Department was created and formally introduced into the Los Angeles area. The LAFD has had Emergency Medical Services be a part of the department for almost a hundred years. In the year 1927, the Los Angeles Fire Department added Emergency Medical Services into their program. A few years later in 1931, already six LAFD ambulances were stationed around the metropolitan and around the shoreside area. Originally the EMS program was linked with the Los…

the dynamics of fire science dealing within the fire service. Firefighting dynamics focus on many points dealing with the chemistry of firefighting and the many changes that are involved with fire behavior and the products of combustion associated with each object(Madrzykowski, 2016). Controlling the growth of the fire and knowing what the fire is doing in a structure is a great tool for company officers to use during firefighting tactics (Madrzykowski, 2016). Mr. Daniel Madrzykowski focused…

Unlike being a volunteer firefighter in a local town, being a New York firefighter is a lot harder and has a lot more strict requirements. “One of the worst days in America’s history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. Here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice”(Readhead). There are many different requirements, those of which include physical, academic, and everyday requirements, as well as proof of…

In the dynamic firefighting service leaders often times find their department in need of adaptive change. This change could be driven by a change in the economics, municipal policies, inter-department policies or perhaps a new leader with a new vision. None the less, change is needed in order to meet the new needs of the department. Often times, this change is an adaptive change that no simple answer by following standard operating procedures or hiring a consultant. Solutions to adaptive change…

and also allows them to have children of their own to love and to raise, “On the job, you will have a shift that goes for an extensively long time, but those days I get to be with my beautiful wife and my boy are well worth it all” (Lawrie). A firefighting career would not only take place in the public, but in the home as well. As a firefighter one would know the proper precautions needed to keep the family…