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
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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
Jaws, Firefighters and the Fear We Feed
Just because it’s vivid doesn’t mean it’s typical. And just because it’s feared doesn’t mean it’s true.
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.
Data Not Drama 