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: Safety
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.
What ‘Removing Two-In/Two-Out’ is NOT about
A few comments in online discussions presume to incorrectly believe what the paper calls for.
Removing Two-In/Two-Out: A modern, data-supported defense of our core mission
The authors believe that data from multiple sources, i.e., FSRI, Project Mayday, NFPA, USFA, NIOSH, AHA, and Firefighter Rescue Survey, all converge on the simple truth that as research and data have influenced current changes in strategies and tactics, this 26-year-old requirement has run its course.