Tragedy

Again, it has been a while since I posted anything. The last time I posted was after the tragedy in Lake City and encouraging people to check their smoke detectors and replacing the batteries at least once a year. It is still important to continue to make sure that you have working detectors and that you have had changed your batteries.

Now the fire news is been more with the fire service experiencing Line Of Duty Deaths (LODD). The West Texas fire department experienced a significant loss of life with the explosion. One of the people killed was also on the Dallas Fire Department. Then two days ago Phoenix Fire Department lost a member in a fire. Now this morning the eyes are back in Texas and the Dallas Fire Department as they had a member killed in a condo fire.

Then locally we had a near miss reported a few days ago when we had a few people partially fall through the floor in a house fire. Fortunately everyone was alright and were able to walk away.

What lessons can we learn from these tragedies and near misses? It is our job to learn from the past and make improvements for the future. We look at a house fire where a civilian dies and say check your smoke detector and change your batteries. But yet when a fire fighter dies, we express our condolences and most do nothing. Lets make the change and start to focus more on how we can be more aware of our situation.