By Ray McCormack
我们有near-miss reports。我们有LODD reports。我们甚至有事故报告，但最后类别没有发挥作用。事故发生，消防员受伤。许多人说事故是可以预防的，但前提是您有智慧事先看到过错。这就是我们在训练时试图做的 - 造成伤害消防员的事故，尤其是在现场比赛中。并非每个人都成功，并不是每个人都尽其所能，而且有人总是要付出代价。
Sometimes the price is steep; a job or title is taken away and it usually coincides with the level of injury sustained or the lack of injury prevention put forth. Sometimes it is the injury itself that is the price paid. A recent example of firefighters injured and people fired concerns a实时训练event that happened last year. The video, now posted on the Web, shows how flames filled the room two firefighters were in. They escaped death by bailing out of a window. I was not there. Most of the people who will read this were not there. So, what do we do? How do we learn from this?
This was a training event.
The training involved live fire.
The training involved positive-pressure fans.
The training went bad and fast.
Trainingis the one world where we should aim to make sure that no catastrophic events occur. We have all the time in the world to make it a safe environment. As safe as possible, that means closely examining every element and taking a fresh look at all burn sets and how they will develop.直播events are guided byNFPA 1403。这是您将被判断为如果受伤的标准；那就是它的工作方式。您可以根据自己的意愿做，但是如果涉及诉讼，那将是您回答的规则簿。
So how come the fire service doesn’t erect Web sites and pour grant money over preventing training injuries? Maybe we find it more enjoyable to discuss the almost event instead of facing the reality of real training injuries.
It’s not about finger pointing, it’s about finding the root cause and how the dominos fell. Many times, especially with live-fire training injury, you might see are the nozzle firefighter sustaining a minor burn. People jumping out of windows, however, is a bit more critical. In the first example, the firefighter may have gone to deep to quickly or the fire moved a bit faster than they thought, or a piece of gear showed some skin. but at least they had the protection of a charged handline. The firefighters who jumped out the window did not appear to be similarly protected.
Are you placing firefighters at live-burn events in a position which will force them to bail out a window? No, not if the drill is laid out correctly. When we watch a video such as the aforementioned one, even if we were not physically there, we all know some huge mistakes were made. There are some “nevers” at a live burn when it comes to avoiding preventable injuries.
一种是不要让任何人在安全线或攻击霍斯线之前。
Another is to never allow anyone to be past the fire room or allow anyone just to hang out inside the building without a hoseline. Not hard to figure out, yet not always done.
生命受伤和过去的悲剧最大的问题是，信托被破坏了，学生和讲师之间的信任。
You must decide for yourself what level of commitment you bring to the table. I believe we must bring the highest level of training possible to these events. Much ado about nothing?
Keep Fire in Your Life
RAY McCORMACKis a 30-year veteran and a lieutenant with FDNY. He is the publisher and editor of UrbanFirefighter杂志。He delivered the keynote address at FDIC in 2009 and he is on the Editorial Board of188金宝搏是正规吗杂志。For more on UrbanFirefighter, visit//www.sacthai.com/urbanfirefighter.html。
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