Just spent the weekend up in St Cloud MN attending the FITOAM (Fire Instructors & Training Officers Association of Minnesota. I was able to get my Fire & Life Safety Educator State Certification I.
This has been interesting for me as I have a whopping a 18 months of Fire experience under my belt and the average attendee at this conference was at least 18 years (mostly suppression)....but that is okay. The whole goal behind prevention is prevent the (negative) experience. There are enough examples out there of what not to do….our job is to make sure people are aware of those (negative) experiences to prevent them from happening again.
Plus, the better we do the less actual suppression experience we get….which for a fire fighter can be a bummer but I hope we’d all agree that our adrenaline rush is not the right reason to stop prevention.
So I had an epiphany this weekend….see 100’s of fire fighters all walking around with their Fire / Rescue sweatshirts at an education conference….why not add “prevention” to our identity?
FIRE / RESCUE
PREVENTION
13 years ago
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