To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost. – Pat Summitt LODD’s: LODD’s don’t only happen in the larger occupancies. Today’s NIOSH report shows they can occur in something as small as a 12′ wide mobile […]

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have. – Pat Summitt LODD’s: Jan 10, 2011 Lieutenant suffers a stroke following training and dies – New York. Jan 10, 2002 Civilian jumps from fourth-story window of burning apartment building and strikes career fire […]

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results. – Pat Summitt LODD’s: Today is a rough day for LODD’s! As Sgt. Esterhaus said on “Hill Street Blues”…”Let’s be careful out there!”. Jan 09, 2012 Fire fighter suffers fatal heart attack while performing driver/operator duties at a motor vehicle crash – South Carolina. Jan […]

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again. – Pat Summitt LODD’s: Jan 08, 2013 Airport fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death while performing airport […]

“It’s about doing it in a way that it can’t be done any better. That is the goal every day.”– Geno Auriemma LODD’s: Jan 07, 2011 Fire apparatus operator suffers fatal heart attack during annual fire department medical evaluation – Missouri. Jan 07, 2005 Fire equipment operator suffers a heart attack at the scene of […]

“With the absence of pressure, it’s hard to do great things.” – Geno Auriemma LODD’s: Two of today’s four NIOSH reports involve aerial apparatus. When is the last time you did a review of aerial apparatus safety? Jan 06, 2018 Career lieutenant killed in building collapse while fighting row house fire-Pennsylvania. Jan 06, 2012 Career […]

What better to start the a new year than a brush up on leadership skills and practices. L. David Marquet’s latest book is Leadership is Language – The Hidden Power of What You Say…and What You Don’t. This book is full of examples of how language can facilitate success or lead to failure. David Marquet […]

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken LODD’s: Jan 04, 2012 Wildland fire fighter trainee suffers sudden cardiac death during physical fitness exercise – California. Jan 04, 2001 Fire fighter suffers a heart […]

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy H. Williams LODD’s: Another day without published NIOSH LODD reports but several can be found at Firefighterclosecalls.com’s History page.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. – Unknown LODD’s: Jan 02, 2016 Trainee suffers heart attack during fire fighter training and dies – Michigan. Jan 02, 2009 Career fire fighter dies when backed over while spotting an apparatus – New Jersey.