Question(s) of the Week: Have you reviewed your department’s SOP/SOG’s regarding roadway incidents? It seems emergency responders and vehicles are being struck almost daily on our roadways. Have you reviewed the videos and training at Respondersafety.com? If you aren’t doing all you can to prevent your or a member of your crew from being the subject of a NIOSH report, your not doing enough!
LODD:
- 54-Year-Old Interim Fire Captain Suffers Sudden Cardiac Event During Physical Ability Test – New Hampshire – 2020
- Fire fighter/paramedic suffers heart attack after performing physical fitness training and dies – Minnesota. 2015
- Motor-vehicle incident claims the life of a volunteer fire fighter and injures a lieutenant and another fire fighter – South Carolina 1999
- In 1976, a gasoline tanker caught fire and the resulting BLEVE killed 3 Gadsden, AL firefighters
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