FF Safety??

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Permalink Reply by THOMAS A. STOFFER on November 16, 2009 at 12:10am

I want to thank everyone for reading this post, for your service to our county and to everyone who takes safety into mind while performing their duties as a Fire Fighter. The Fire service as a whole has been Moving to become Safer, more efficient, and more effective for the communities that they serve. If you have been following The recent NIOSH reports you may have seen an underlining contributing factors to the LODDS. Training inadequacies, PPE negligence, communications breakdown, and improper incident command, all of these listed above are areas that need to be improved upon within the fire service. Now the question that we have to ask ourselves is personally what am I doing to change that current statistic, And as a whole what are doing as a department to bring change. That is goal is it not, ISTFA’S 5TH EDITION states “The mission of the fire service is to save lives and protect property” and followed by, This is the mission of every fire department and firefighter(ISTFA’S 5TH EDITION pg15) . If we refer to our tactical priorities they are as followed; Life Safety( this being the highest priority), Incident Stabilization, and property conservation . With this Knowledge we learn that Our Safety is critical to completing our mission as a firefighter, and to increase efficiencies and effectiveness.



Columbiana County Ohio, A two thousand and eight estimate of the county found that there was approximately 107,873 residents that we protect on a daily basis. That is a three point seven percent drop from the year two thousand in total populace. That statistic goes to prove that we are losing that total capital for our departments. Which leaves Departments with an underlining problem of how do we become more efficient, more effective and how to keep our staffing levels up, all while trying to become safer during the process. At the county level we have hosted classes that where opened to all county firefighters these included, Water and Tanker shuttles, Fire Fighter safety, Auto extrication, the most recent was Dave Dodson, Former Battalion Chief , “Teaching The Art Of Reading Smoke” all of these trainings where designed to become more effective, more efficient and operating safely while performing our duties as a firefighter . At a Department level What Trainings Are we doing on our training night to help complete our task ? I understand that as firefighters we lead a busy life, but how can we effectively mange our time to complete our needs ? Regardless of our certifications we should always strive to become more effective firefighters through training. Five hundred and thirty two square miles is the area we are covering with an average of two hundred and ten people per square mile, a few quick facts for you to think about looking at it as a whole. I challenge every Columbiana county firefighter to operate in a SAFE, EFFECTIVE AND EFFICENT MANNER to serve our communities . Know matter how big or how small the department this should be our goal! EVERYONE GOES HOME !!!!!!!!!!!! Be safe be effective be efficient god bless everyone

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Permalink Reply by Big City LT Max L. on November 16, 2009 at 1:00am

Ill take your challange Thomas your words are that of someone much older you age. One person can start change. Two can spread it. Soon like swine flu everyone will be pushing to learn more.

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Permalink Reply by R Griffin on November 16, 2009 at 11:52am

The end says it all

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Permalink Reply by R Griffin on November 16, 2009 at 11:59am

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Permalink Reply by R Griffin on November 16, 2009 at 12:01pm

Some of these gear pics look like they got it from our morning journal

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Permalink Reply by verno on November 16, 2009 at 12:24pm

Thomas, who pulled your chain???? Its nice to the info your putting on here, I just hope the "right" people in "little" Columbiana County will take the time to read it. REMEMBER ........SAFETY FIRST!!!!!!!

Nice videos Rich.....BE SAFE!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by THOMAS A. STOFFER on November 17, 2009 at 8:45pm

I hope everyone Understands the importance of PPE and how it can save you from many different injuries Kenny you can attest to this with your accounts of last night

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