Stickers...

The Sunday Preach:

Stickers

My house is loaded with stickers... they are literally littered everywhere. If you have young children, you know exactly what I mean. "Sticker charts" & "graphs" noting progress in manners, schoolwork and chores. Stickers given as treats, used to make projects, after the doctor and dentist visit...

For adults, stickers are rather annoying. Notably, trying to remove sticker goo when found affixed to grandma's antique table, hot out of the dryer stuck to your favorite t-shirt, smeared on the window of the van, ground into the seats, the carpet, the ceiling, the walls... ok, you get the point.

In the fire service, we certainly have our share of stickers. Rig & helmet stickers denoting company or department pride or a group affiliation.

Here is a great sticker for your rig. Make sure that it is big enough that everyone can see it, and yet train so no one ever needs too. This sticker isn't for your members, they should know where everything is on your apparatus.

This sticker is for those responding who may be YOUR RIT/FAST team. While they should bring their own compliment of tools if additional RIT/FAST tools are needed, they can SEE where those tools are on YOUR rig, the ones usually parked closest to the fire!

Having a policy that places a sticker to denote the placement of lifesaving RIT/FAST tools and equipment for US is a simple easy one.