Walter Morris, training program manager of the Maine Fire Service Institute, is a staunch believer in the statement, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Consequently, he is committed to making sure that firefighters, and especially instructors, see the connection between past tragedies and today’s消防员培训. That was the focus of his FridayFDIC 2014class “Fire Training Injuries: Case Studies for Instructors.” In this interactive session, students identified the factors that contributed to firefighter training injuries and the lessons these incidents teach us.
莫里斯（Morris）在周五的课上建立了一些为学生的伤害死亡和训练修订联系。“许多讲师不了解过去的悲剧如何影响当今的消防员培训。”莫里斯说。他们不知道两名巨石，科罗拉多州，消防员的训练死亡直接导致了国家消防协会1403的发展标准Live Fire Training,” he explains. Morris called this standard “an excellent risk management tool.”
莫里斯（Morris）发现很难相信许多教师不知道以下火灾的重要性：
- A Milford, Michigan, training event in which several training fires were burning simultaneously in an old house led to the deaths of three firefighters.
- 的use of diesel fuel in an attic of an acquired structure in Delaware on April 30, 2000, killed a 27-year-old Assistant fire chief.
- On September 25, 2001, 19-year-old Bradley Golden of the Lairdsville (NY) Fire Department died in a live fire training incident when he was caught in a flashover. As a result, Lairsdville Fire Department’s Assistant Chief Alan Baird III was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sent to jail.
- On August 27, 2002, less than a year after Golden’s death, a house being used for live fire training in Cranesville, New York, exploded when flammable liquids were used to propagate the fire. Ten firefighters and two civilians were injured. “Cranesville is only 80 miles from Lairdsville,” Morris comments incredulously!
莫里斯强调了全国堕落的消防员基金会。第3号倡议，“将风险管理与各级事件管理的整合（包括战略，战术和计划责任）的整合集中到。”
“As fire service instructors, we are obligated to practice risk management,” Morris stressed. “It is our obligation to become familiar with the requirements of NFPA 1403 and to use this tool. Knowing that the requirements of NFPA 1403 were developed as a result of firefighter injuries and deaths will help instructors to understand the intent of the requirements.”
