Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers

Training:

• Rules of Air Management 
• Commercial vs. Residential Fire Attack

LODD:

• Volunteer Fire Fighter Dies After Running Out of Air and Becoming Disoriented in Retail Store in Strip Mall Fire—North Carolina – 2016
• Career Fire Fighter Dies From Injuries Sustained In Fall From Apparatus – Massachusetts – 2004
• Volunteer Assistant Chief Dies During a Controlled-Burn Training Evolution-Delaware – 2000

Fires/Disasters:

• The Great Fire of 1911 starts in Bangor, Maine, destroying hundreds of buildings and killing 2, one a Firefighter
• 2014 A 4-day Tornado Outbreak across the Central and Southern US ends, leaving 35 dead and over 200 injured
• 2014 Several rail cars carrying crude oil derail and burn in downtown Lynchburg, VA 

General History:

• 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker 
• 1975 The fall of Saigon ends the Vietnam War