Rod, I guess I am a dinosaur. I'm not asking anyone to die because of a lack of training by going inside a house fire. What I am asking for is some mandate relief so that "the firehouse" being their whole lives. Honestly, horror stories like yours notwithstanding, it doesn't take a lot of training to put out a grass fire or protect an adjoining structure or put a ladder up to a window some someone can escape. It doesn't take a lot of training to do CPR or put pressure on a wound. IMO the fire service has bought into the idea of more and more and more in all ways. More training, more requirements on equipment, more expensive equipment, replaced more often. As with so many other bureaucratic answers to issues that may or may not exist, the one size fits all solution doesn't fit anyone very well, and the costs are supposed to be swallowed by a grateful taxpaying public. I ran the numbers in out little town in the sticks here. Between what we pay for "fire protection" from other larger towns, the insane costs of homeowners insurance for what is deemed essentially "unprotected property" as far as fire company response time and the savings that could be had if we had a small station located here, we could easily fund a building with 2 used pieces of equipment. But the mandates in place prevent us from doing that. How is that "right"? We have maybe 8-12calls a year in our town. Mostly grass fires. standbys at accidents or a chimney fire. Every now and again we'll have structure fire and the "big boys" with their millions in equipment show up after a half hour to spray water on the foundation. I'm sorry if you think I'm making light of training or the dangers involved. I'm not. But I don't see how mandating unreasonable standards in equipment and training serves or benefits anyone but the bureaucrats, fire equipment concerns and the fire service itself.
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