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Wont go in with certain people
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Posted 7 months ago We just did a S & R training at my dept. I found that their is one guy that I had several problems with. Mainly dealing with comunication. I realize that it is hard to speek and hear with SCBA on. After sever times of going in with this individual I came to the conclusion that he would not be someone I would feel safe with in a fire situation. I am wondering if anyone else has had this come up before, and how did you deal with it? I know that my own safty is my first priority, but am I looking at this in the wrong way to refuse going in a building with him? I would like to hear some feed back and storys. Has anyone had to or wanted to refuse to go in with a person, and for what reasons? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Its a tough situation that I have seen first hand and experienced myself. What do you do? Its simple, take that communication to the next level, talk to him at the next drill or dept function, ask him why its so hard to communicate with him in fires and if he hears you, express your feelings towards the need for good communications and your worries about not going in with him if he refuses and tell him you want to fix that.
I have seen it a few times where a crew of two goes in and shortly after that one comes out...Alone...because they got scared and left their partner in there. Thats wrong and we jumped all over this individual and "Trained" them at future drills. If you are uncomfortable you need to communicate this with the brothers/sisters you will be going in with and tell them instead of ditching them inside a fire and get them worried that you got lost, which is what happened at the above mentioned fire, the other brother inside thought this individual was lost or trapped and started to look for them until their air ran out and he exited the building and saw this individual over by the rescue drinking coffee...we had to restrain him from decking this individual. Always communicate and talk things out with your brothers/sisters, you would be amazed how many times they will feel the same as you. Good communications is essential for any relationship...even in our dysfunctional family! LOL Stay Safe Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 21 days ago Sadly I think most depts. have 1 or 2 people nobody would trust there life with. |
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| Posted 21 days ago It really is a shame to have that occur. Bottom line is with that 'hanging around' someone will get hurt, killed, or property will suffer. If that is the case, this individual needs to be dealt with. We can no longer just look the other way. Professional firefighters don't look the other way...we solve the problem, even if that means someone is no longer a member of our department. It doesn't matter if we're vollys or paid...solve the problem or a recipe for disaster is cooking.
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| Posted about 15 hours ago I definitely agree. |
