FACE THE NATION
BY BILL MANNING
在许多方面和许多地方，美国的消防服务却造成了造成的。
The Politics of Survival has pushed fire departments into a diversification scramble. Unfortunately, the majority of these services are not direct revenue producers, and in resource-challenged departments dilution of service quality is not just a threat.
在没有魔法包的情况下，在没有魔法包的情况下，在没有魔法包的情况下，酋长队的酋长们认为他们建议他们很短暂，因为他们可以让11英寸或12人进入现场，以便在两个人身上勉强安全的内部攻击- 在212层私人住宅中射击。但如果您可以在收到警报后10分钟左右可以组装此类资源，那么在大多数情况下我们都会谈论......嗯......曝光保护 - 即正确的保护。
Running three apparatus with a total of five firefighters and an officer as the first-alarm assignment is considered normal, inevitable in some cases. Who ventilates? Who performs the search, one firefighter without a radio? Mutual aid has become a first-alarm survival tactic, rounding out what you needed 20 minutes ago.
解决欠款的前景（不是毫不准备！）局部层面的困境是令人沮丧的。金钱和人力供不应求。缩放服务多样化措施，违反“90年代的政治必要性”。消防服务吞下了城市管理人员诱饵：不要告诉消防员，他可以只用他真正需要的一半资源！所有的公众都知道，当警报声，那些来自社区伙伴关系和结构更新部门的那些大，最先进的红色或绿色或蓝色或白色卡车将滚动，所以一切都很好，我们的婴儿是安全的因为他们可能是。只要公众感到安全，现在也许不是提起20年的最佳时间，在现场境内的20年不足的人在全国范围内每1000次住宅火灾的平民伤害率超过40％以上。。
历史上，火灾（通过扩展，消防部门处理的广泛的其他紧急情况）被认为是严格的局部问题。地理位置，多样性，政治和其他因素是真实的，使局部测定优选的防火水平;然而，社区不可能与消防部门预期的高质量，全包紧急服务的固有成本保持同步。
此外，火灾就像当地的一个问题，作为暴力犯罪，白水和二手烟雾 - 当地历史与民族影响力。在这个国家平均每15秒发生火灾。每年有超过4,000名平民死亡和约3万名平民受伤。每年有100,000名消防员在职责范围内受伤。超过85,000名平民 - 大约等于柯林斯堡的人口，在过去的20年里，科罗拉多州在他们的房子里死于他们的家中。每年向上1000亿美元，火灾和所有与其相关的成本都代表了美国国民生产总值的两倍。这在这个国家的经济问题的第一批阶段中充满了火灾。但请乔公民命名美国的十大问题，火赢了清单。
公众缺乏对大多数当地和国家税收的国家繁荣支付的火灾缺乏升值，私营部门 - 多年来困扰着消防服务。为什么消防服务在排队到联邦槽的那些排队的方式。它为什么国家消防学院为500万美元的火灾服务188博金宝体育1运营超过一百万成员。为什么在华盛顿大部分时间都在华盛顿消防局拨款是拍拍背面。好吧，对不起，但消防服务需要物质，而不是情感，也是很多。
With Washington`s well-substantiated focus on terrorism, you may have supposed the fire service would gain from a massive distribution of funds for equipment and hands-on training to beef up the first-response-to-terrorism capabilities of fire departments across the country. Wrong. In total, the fire service receives $5 million for grants to metropolitan departments (direct money); $7.5 million for terrorism awareness training for the 120 most populated cities (indirect money; one firefighter from each of the 120 departments is trained to a basic awareness level, beyond which the cost of full department training reverts back to the local jurisdiction); a second worldwide terrorism conference with 400 participants (indirect money); $23 million to train fire departments of 27 selected cities (indirect money; interestingly, Oklahoma City is not one of the 27); $10.5 million to organize Metro Medical Strike Teams in the 20 most populated cities (indirect money); a possible task force study to determine the feasibility of a national terrorism training site (no money yet); and new terrorism courses offered by the National Fire Academy. Get the picture?
你的消防部门面临着一个意图l potential for a terrorist incident–chemical, radiological, biological–it doesn`t require a lot of imagination. You are far removed from Metro Medical Strike Teams. You don`t have a department haz-mat unit, and the regional team is not yet full-steam-ahead with its “terrorist technician” program. You are 12 hours from any DOD assistance. You were not one of the 120 initial cities slated for basic terrorism awareness training by the Department of Justice. You`re not one of the 27 major metropolitan centers trained by the DOD. You`re hanging out there, naked, with your 30 firefighters, six of whom, in turnouts and SCBA, entered the targeted hospital, or mall, or office building, or abortion clinic, and you are damned if you do and damned if you don`t…. Scary?
A few savvy lobbyists quietly navigating the halls of Congress are not enough for a disparate, fragmented lobby so long neglected by those too willing to let a national problem be shouldered almost exclusively by local and private entities. We are at the center of a national issue that must be taken to the American public through a media blitz. The general media have not picked up on our story because we haven`t made our story known–and be advised it is a lot more interesting and closer to the people than animal rights, global warming, presidential sexual habits, and a thousand other stories that make national news and shows every night.
它的时间是黄金时段的时候，有时间在主要报纸上用全文广告面对国家，在AP线上的热门新闻，广播网络上的30秒商业广告，夜间出场（为什么不？）。让美国人决定他们的安全，繁荣和未来是多么重要。我准备帮助滚动球 - 给我这个词。
