火/救援街❘By Kate Dernocoeur
I watched recently as three members of the Lowell (MI) Fire Department were promoted to full firefighter status. They had earned their Firefighter I and II certificates at the fire academy and were done (or nearly so) with their EMT training. While wearing those yellow helmets signifying “I’m still learning,” they had also passed the state emergency driving course, hazmat operations certification, a bunch of FEMA ICS courses, and several in-house competency exams. Naturally, everyone in the department has a full physical/medical exam annually, plus a personal fitness test—all that just to get started as a full-fledged firefighter!
The process can take about two years, but no one gets a black helmet until the rest of the department has seen what grit they have and whether they have the heart for the job. In a job like firefighting, that is as it should be.
Of course, it’s not how it alwaysis。每个部门都做了自己的方式，但如果你拥有唯一的消防部门是你所看到的唯一一个，那么差异很难欣赏。而且，对于您服务的社区成员，您是唯一会在需要时刻出现的人。您和所有同事也准备好作为洛厄尔的三个新的消防员？
在许多火灾中，有一个横幅，也许在训练室的白板上方，这说了类似的东西，“像你的生活一样训练取决于它 - 因为它。”过了一会儿，很容易停止看到那个提醒，但这是真的。对于我们需要能够并准备做的事情来说太容易了，除非在没有陷入该陷阱的公共坚持下面，否则我们需要做的事情。我认为这是志愿者和低批量生产的尤其如此，因为事实是，你可能不需要进入婴儿交付套件......直到你这样做。在许多较小的社区中，名单上的每个消防员都必须能够并准备接受所有不同的角色并随时完成任务，具体取决于谁显示运行。如果其他人首先进入右座位，你可能不会挂钩到消防栓的一系列。我们不能摸索我们的任何技能，但是我们几乎没有必要做的事情......这就是我们训练的原因。
我们训练三件事：我们的社区，我们的团队和我们自己。使命是按准备好准备，准备就可以作为可能在一天或班次泡起来的各种可能的需要。以下是一些励志的报价，以防止您忽视该目标。
Training for your community: “We don’t train until we get it right. We train until we can’t get it wrong,” Lieutenant Bill Manning of the Kissimmee (FL) Fire Department once said. A much-respected lead instructor for the Central Florida Fire Academy, he died in May 2013 after being struck while riding his motorcycle.
注意Manning的单词选择强调额外努力的方式，它经常需要真正擅长任何东西。它提出了消防学院的时间，在我背后绑在一起时，听着讲座。188博金宝体育1它让我留下了上面平均的领带和解开结的能力。我不能让他们错了。我也永远不会在课堂上睡着了！
我们都希望我们的社区感到相信我们不会得到它（无论它是什么）错误。我们现在需要公众信任，而不是以往任何时候。除了普遍的社区感觉之外，我们无法承担任何普遍的社区，因为你的部门是它的一切。
为您的团队培训。“Would you want me coming to rescue you?” Assistant Chief David McGrail, longtime veteran of the Denver (CO) Fire Department, once said. A well-known author/educator on fire service topics, McGrail knows the value of looking to your left and to your right and seeing that your colleagues are fit for the same job you’re doing. When you head out to a fire call, areyou你需要爬梯子的人与equipment in hand to vent a roof? Roll 800 feet of four-inch hose? Help an injured colleague? My promise to my team was that I’d retire when I no longer felt able to “pull your sorry butts out of a burning building”—even though the chances of having to do that were slim. I kept that promise, because as my Medicare years loomed, it became clear: I wouldn’t want me coming to rescue me. What’s your story?
Training for yourself。“你永远不能为可以杀死你的工作训练太多，”纽约消防部长帕特里克布朗船长说。当它在9/11折叠时，他在梯子3的船员中在北塔。虽然这项工作确实杀死了他，但它不是因为缺乏自己对训练的奉献精神。他在越南服役的前海军陆战队员才适合这份工作，因为他知道问题。除了个人身体健康之外，每个消防员都应该不仅适用于力量，还要尽量减少压力损伤，减轻有害暴露对物质的影响（如垃圾箱中的PFA），更重要。对你的健康的承诺是你给自己和你的家人的礼物。
What was heartwarming about the recent promotions in Lowell was the care the department took to celebrate its newest firefighters. They got a proper promotion, with dress uniforms and a swearing-in oath, and their families were on hand to pin their badges. There were shiny new black helmets to replace the yellow probationary ones and a cake. It marked their passage across the first of many finish lines inherent to our world.
Whether your personnel are going from civvies into probation, probation to full status, into the officer ranks, or on to retirement, each is an inflection point signifying achievement. I know celebration of such events as these is not done in every department, and that’s a shame. Such traditions matter, because they signal a departmental culture that insists on noting every element: the community, the team, and the individual. With such an unrelenting eye for improvement, their training (and celebration of it) is never “done.”
KATE DERNOCOEUR，退休的消防员/ EMT，作为医疗审查员调查员，以及西部密歇根州西部的肯特县SAR K9单位的SARTECH-II。她于2019年从ADA（MI）消防部门退役，是丹佛（CO）护理司（1979-1986）的护理人员。她的紧急服务职业生涯于1974年始于Vail（Co）山救援集团。一位记者和MFA（创意写作），她为EMS出版物编写，包括杰姆S, since 1979, and was a frequent speaker at EMS conferences from 1984-2004. Her bookStreetsense: Communication, Safety and Control在2020年在第4版发布。她也合作Principles of Emergency Medical Dispatch杰夫法森博士，MD（1988年第一版），以及其他书籍。她的博客，“一般写，”在www.katedernocoeur.com。
