While looking for a good quote for today, I found the one from Fred Astaire below. Isn’t amazing how some things never seem to change?
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. – Fred Astaire
LODD:
- Paid on call fire fighter suffers a fatal cardiac event just after completing two hose training drills – Wisconsin. 2007
- Oxygen regulator flash severely burns one fire fighter – Florida. 1998
- Two Philadelphia firefighters were killed and 38 others injured in an explosion and collapse at a South Philadelphia ink company. 1973
Major Incidents:
- In 2016, 49 people were killed and over 50 injured when a man attacked the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
- In 2013, 4 persons died when a two-day thunderstorm/derecho event traveled through the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern U.S. with winds over 90 mph, hail of 2.75 inches and spawning 30 tornadoes.
Training:
History:
The Fire Brief 