Victim Survivability Profiling may spare firefighters immediate risk, but it can leave behind lasting moral injury, especially when the decision not to search proves fatally wrong
Category Archives: Firefighting
The Risk of Assumption: Rethinking Victim Survivability Profiling in Firefighting
The data doesn’t lie: most firefighter deaths aren’t from interior searches, and civilians survive in conditions VSP might dismiss
When Images Anchor Memory: The Hindenburg, the Akron and the Power of Visual Emotion
Why does hardly anyone remember the USS Akron? A flaming zeppelin frozen in a photograph, or a desperate voice crackling through a radio, lodges deeper than statistics ever could.
USFA On-Duty Death: Illinois
The captain was critically injured in a collapse during salvage and overhaul.
Data Not Drama 