Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell

LODD’s:

Nov 21, 2007

Fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death after responding to two calls – Kansas.

Nov 21, 2005

Fire fighter/emergency medical technician suffers an acute myocardial infarction and dies three days later – Pennsylvania.

History:

November 21, 1783 – The first free balloon flight took place in Paris as Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois Laurent d’Arlandes ascended in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. Their flight lasted about 25 minutes and carried them nearly six miles at a height of about 300 feet over Paris. Benjamin Franklin was one of the spectators.