Risk little to save little

Risk little to save little

We’ve all heard it. Probably the first time you heard it was in recruit school right? “Risk little to save little. Risk a lot to save a lot.” What is “little” though? Who gets to decide that? That question can only really be answered based on perspective. Depending on the person answering the question, the perspective is going to change. If you ask a lot of structural firefighters across the United States they are going to tell you that the “little” is anything less than life, whether civilian or firefighter. That’s what’s being taught these days anyways.
At what point do we as a profession evaluate what the “little” is? What if what you think is “little” is in fact “a lot” to the citizens you serve. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m talking about property. Now let me make a disclaimer, I DO NOT think that my citizen’s property is more valuable than my life or your life. I DO think that we continually use the slogan above as a crutch not to do our job. What is our job? Well, I’m glad you asked. Did you not take an oath to protect “life and property”? Departments across the country seem to be forgetting about the property part.
我现在可以听到你现在说“但他们有家庭主人的保险”或“他们应该有租房者的保险”。这是一个有效的观点，但仍有一定的借口。但正如我之前所说的那样，事先取决于你来确定你的立场是什么以及你的观点是有价值的风险。如果你在像我这样的城市环境中工作，我们的很多客户都没有家庭主任保险，绝对没有租房者保险。他们房屋或他们的公寓里的内容是他们拥有的，当他们拨打他们的住所后拨打911时，他们希望消防部门出现并拯救他们的东西。即使它的富裕，郊区地区，他们仍然希望你出现并拯救他们的东西。
我不是来这里和你争论,只是印度logue and get you to think. Forestry fire services, whether federal, local, or private, lose a handful of firefighters every year. So far this year I have counted five deaths (August). Three from falling trees, one from a chainsaw accident, and one from burns from a fast moving fire changing direction. I will admit, I’m not a wildland firefighter. I have the unfortunate pleasure of having some wildland/urban interface at my part time job and I do not enjoy it. I give props to the guys that have to do this for a living.
Wildland firefighting is mainly focused on protecting property. Yes, civilian lives are sometimes lost, an example being the horrific fire outside of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge last year. However, most of the time, when fire is threatening homes or cities, authorities have the time to plan orderly evacuations which in turns lead me back to the argument that wildland firefighting is mainly focused at preserving property. Imagine what would happen if wildland firefighters said that the risk is too much. “It’s just a house or some land, it’s not worth my life.” They don’t however. They go to work every day across this country knowing their risk and they except it.
与我们一样。我们每天去上班，我们知道这份工作的风险。我们知道我们采取了誓言。生活和财产。我们应该尽一切努力保护两者。And if we truly put our citizens first and commit to searching a structure whether the report on scene is everyone is out or whether it’s an abandoned structure, then we in turn are making every effort to save their property as well and thus fulfilling our oath to “Protect life and property”.