Firefighter Safety
The job of a firefighter is to do everything professionally possible to protect lives and property. And while the safety of the public is a primary concern, a firefighter's own safety is also of great importance, since his or her effectiveness in responding and putting out fires is paramount in terms of protecting communities and forests. Getting safely to the scene of the emergency, and using techniques and strategies that are well-grounded while at the scene, are concepts that are addressed in depth in this research paper. The recent tragic deaths of five firefighters in southern California brings to the table a whole host of questions about the safety of firefighters in wildland fire situations, and this paper addresses some of those.
One of the tools that firefighters working in wildland fire environments are trained to use and depend on are fire shelters; why weren't those life-saving tools used by the five firefighters who died on October 27 in California? And how effective is the new generation of fire shelters that are currently in use? Those issues and other issues that are germane to firefighter safety are presented in this paper as well.
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