Bailing Out on Safety

Have we become too reliant on self-survival techniques?

IIt was 1997 and I was a young training officer serving in Missouri City, a small city just southwest of Houston. I was filled with energy and enthusiasm, as I had just attended a weekend training program at the Illinois Fire Service Institute. The program was the now-famous “Saving Our Own”; I was fortunate to have been a student in the second offering.
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Aug 2010 |
Vol. 28 Issue 8

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