All three of today’s NIOSH reports are cardiac related! Take care of yourselves and have a medical-physical evaluation. It may save your life! LODD’s: F2004-09 Apr 02, 2001 Fire fighter-driver/engineer suffers heart attack and dies at the end of his 24-hour shift – Hawaii. F2001-30 Apr 02, 2001 Fire fighter suffers fatal heart attack after […]

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. – […]

Five NIOSH reports today! Two during training, one medical event and two during residential structural fires. Please operate and train safely! LODD’s: F2016-05 Mar 31, 2016 Cadet dies from hyperthermia and exertional heat stroke during indoor SCBA maze training – Texas. F2010-11 Mar 31, 2010 Lieutenant suffers fatal heart attack during training – Ohio. F2006-18 […]

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. – E. O. Wilson LODD’s: F2018-01 Mar […]

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou LODD’s: F2011-06 Mar 29, 2010 Paramedic training instructor/coordinator found dead in his quarters – Ohio. F2005-23 Mar 29, 2005 Fire fighter/paramedic suffers […]

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. – Yehuda Berg LODD’s: […]

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it. – […]

Some very interesting NIOSH reports today! Review them with your crews to help honor our brothers and sisters that made the ultimate sacrifice! LODD’s: F2015-06 Mar 26, 2015 Career fire apparatus operator dies after falling down an unsecured elevator shaft at a 5-story residential structure – Ohio. F2014-09 Mar 26, 2014 Lieutenant and fire fighter […]

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey With Marcus’ quote in mind, on this date in 1911, the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire claimed the lives of more than 100 women and two dozen men. If you want more […]

Both of today’s NIOSH reports are the result of apparatus crashes. Please be careful and wear your seatbelts! LODD’s: F2018-08 Mar 24, 2018 Two fire fighters die and three fire fighters injured in a fire apparatus crash – West Virginia. F2007-25 Mar 24, 2007 Two volunteer fire fighters die in a tanker rollover – North […]