Re: A Sad Day In Cincinnati, OH

In article <47fa5b47$0$24091$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "Joyce" <jahs68nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "John A. Weeks III" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:john-27DEEF.16280005042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In article <47f7cc73$0$6480$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >  "Joyce" <jahs68nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > But their best efforts were in vain. Two of their own, 37-year-old
Capt.
> > > Robin Broxterman and 29-year-old Firefighter Brian Schira, died in a
> Friday
> > > morning house fire. Investigators attributed their deaths to “a
> catastrophic
> > > structural failure” that trapped them inside the house.
> >
> > Most firefighter deaths are purely dumb mistakes.  In this case,
> > the occupants were out of the house before the fire company arrived.
> > There was no need to send anyone into that fire.  All they needed
> > to do was sit back and roast some weenies and make sure the fire
> > did not spread.  Sending those two men in was stupid, and it put
> > far more firefighters at risk trying to rescue their corpses.
> >
> > -john-
> 
> 
> 
> In this situation the first engine on the scene had NO idea that the
> occupants had evacuated.  An automatic alarm had notified the fire
> department, but the residents were at a neighbor's house calling 911
when
> the fire engine arrived.  Nobody was there to give the firefighters any
> information.  It was 6:00 or 6:30 in the morning, so it was thought that
> people might still be asleep in the house.

Communications is the key.

911 operator - is anyone in the house?
911 caller - no, we are all out
911 operator - calling truck #1, all the occupants are out of the house
truck #1 - roger

See?  I just saved 2 lives without even getting out of my chair.

-john-

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