Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. – Sam Walton

Training:

• Extreme Fire Behavior: Smoke Explosion
• Preventing Pulmonary Embolism after Surgery
• 5 Exercises Every Firefighter Should Do
• 6-Minutes for Safety

LODD:

• A Volunteer Fire Fighter and Volunteer Assistant Lieutenant Die After a Smoke Explosion at a Town House Complex – Wyoming – 2005
• District Chief Suffers Sudden Cardiac Death at Home After Experiencing Symptoms Consistent with Heart Disease at his Station – Illinois – 2004
• Fire Fighters Suffers Fatal Pulmonary Embolism after Knee Surgery for a Work-related Injury – North Carolina – 2003

Fires/Disasters:

• 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire kills over 3000
• 2008 Illinois Earthquake
• 2002 Derailment of Amtrak Auto Train on the CSXT Railroad

General History:

• 1942 The U.S. bombs Tokyo in the Doolittle Raid
• 1943 The U.S. shoots down and kills Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack