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Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 8, 2023December 31, 2022

January 8, 2023

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again. – Pat Summitt LODD’s: Jan 08, 2013 Airport fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death while performing airport […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 7, 2023December 31, 2022

January 7, 2023

“It’s about doing it in a way that it can’t be done any better. That is the goal every day.”– Geno Auriemma LODD’s: Jan 07, 2011 Fire apparatus operator suffers fatal heart attack during annual fire department medical evaluation – Missouri. Jan 07, 2005 Fire equipment operator suffers a heart attack at the scene of […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 6, 2023December 31, 2022

January 6, 2023

“With the absence of pressure, it’s hard to do great things.” – Geno Auriemma LODD’s: Two of today’s four NIOSH reports involve aerial apparatus. When is the last time you did a review of aerial apparatus safety? Jan 06, 2018 Career lieutenant killed in building collapse while fighting row house fire-Pennsylvania. Jan 06, 2012 Career […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 5, 2023December 31, 2022

January 5, 2022

What better to start the a new year than a brush up on leadership skills and practices. L. David Marquet’s second book is Leadership is Language – The Hidden Power of What You Say…and What You Don’t. This book is full of examples of how language can facilitate success or lead to failure. David Marquet […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 4, 2023December 31, 2022

January 4, 2023

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken LODD’s: Jan 04, 2012 Wildland fire fighter trainee suffers sudden cardiac death during physical fitness exercise – California. Jan 04, 2001 Fire fighter suffers a heart […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 3, 2023December 31, 2022

January 3, 2023

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy H. Williams LODD’s: Another day without published NIOSH LODD reports but several can be found at Firefighterclosecalls.com’s History page.

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 2, 2023December 31, 2022

January 2, 2023

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. – Unknown LODD’s: Jan 02, 2016 Trainee suffers heart attack during fire fighter training and dies – Michigan. Jan 02, 2009 Career fire fighter dies when backed over while spotting an apparatus – New Jersey.

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefJanuary 1, 2023December 31, 2022

January 1, 2023

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving LODD’s: No NIOSH reports to start the new year, but Firefighterclosecalls.com has several LODD’s listed on their Firefighter History Page.

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefDecember 31, 2022December 18, 2022

December 31, 2022

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. – Pete Hoekstra LODD’s: Dec 31, 2015 Captain suffers sudden cardiac death after performing physical fitness training – Mississippi. Dec 31, 2008 Fire fighter suffers sudden cardiac death while working at a residential fire – Mississippi. Dec 31, 2008 One career fire […]

Written by Southwest Virginia Training and The Fire BriefDecember 30, 2022December 18, 2022

December 30, 2022

Today is the anniversary of one of the deadliest fires in US history. In 1903 over 600 people died in the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago when a spark ignited a curtain above the stage. The most immediate change as a result of the fire was the widespread use of “Panic Bar” hardware on exit […]

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