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贾斯汀·曼（Justin Mann）
现在，我们比以往任何时候都看到了发动机公司运营的复兴。如果您是反对者，并且感觉好像没有足够的培训和或机会进行发动机公司运营，那么您正在寻找错误的地方。全国许多消防员不仅在进行工作培训，而且正在进行工作，而发动机公司运营是他们的主要热情之一。
选择了本文标题中使用的“教条”一词，因为它对工作中的个人的意义以及“挖掘细节”以改善自己和消防服务。这个关于教条一词的故事如下：
“教条一词的起源是对英语说话者的提醒，即现在建立的原则和学说曾经是普通百姓的思想和观点，这些普通百姓的思想和观点逐渐流行，并最终找到了他们进入社会普遍意识的方式。”
这就是目前通过Andy’s Ambassadors. Truck work, rapid intervention teams, and other fireground functions have ruled the training agenda for many years. They are, of course, vitally important, but the most vital tool on the fireground is still the nozzle and its precise use.
Whether you’re staffing is low and you get two on a line (or four in larger departments) for advancement, you have to take the time to make sure we are on the same “sheet of music” and check our equipment every morning so it is ready for use. Aaron Fields of Nozzle Forward said, “We have to approach it as Marvin Gaye and not Metallica.” This includes slowing down at shift changes and checking the attack nozzles, not just checking if they are attached to the line at morning check but physically taking the nozzle off, operating the bale, checking for debris, and working the tip (if you run fog tips). This may seem like overkill, but consider a 2015 nozzle study conducted at my local department which found a frontline engine with an automatic nozzle that had a 1¾-inch hose gasket lodged in the nozzle. Did it make this nozzle unsafe to use? Yes!
While flowing the nozzle, it took twice the pump discharge pressure to get the required gallons per minute (gpm) out of the nozzle, but the pattern and reach appeared to be adequate for a nonexperienced firefighter who has no knowledge of nozzle reaction and its correlation with proper flow when flowing prior to entry; firefighters simply trust the line and their operator before making entry. What they don’t know is that the department’s standard operating procedure (SOP) required a 70-gpm nozzle in the firefight. Luckily, this was caught before the nozzle was ever used on the actual fireground. Actual flow on the nozzle was 70 gpm from the flow meter used during testing, which is well below what NFPA 1710,Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments，它建议至少在第一台攻击线上具有300 gpm的首次攻击线上的100 gpm。
It is our responsibility to make sure our citizens are protected and that we give our personnel the highest chance to go home to their loved ones. Taking five to 10 minutes each morning to check and work the nozzles is not too much to ask of ourselves or each other. Reloading a hose load for proper deployment makes sure that, when called on, we show the professionalism that has gone into the job we are so grateful to have.
And what about our hose load? As with the nozzle, the hose load and its deployment are pivotal to our mission of rescue, fire attack, and safety for all involved. Should we come on shift and chose and/or redress which hose loads are currently on our rigs? Again, yes! We should take the pride in our jobs and know which loads work for best for our districts and our crew. This “one-size-fits-all” mentality that has taken over the fire service has to stop, and one of the first steps to do this is to create thinking firefighters that can estimate stretches and not be put in a “box” with the 200-foot preconnect. We are all different, and the fire service must pride itself on diversity, so let’s take that attitude with our hose loads.
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前连接和静态软管床的结合为我们的消防员提供了最大的功能。考虑一下Brian Brush的文章“未死”。1It’s absolutely amazing how many have gone away from the low hose bed and now have to literally climb on the back of the engine/rescue engine to remove the hose. The push to preconnect from the mid-ship and supply it off the rear has had its time in the fire service; now is the time to take back supplying it off the rear and better serve those that use the tool rather than the new manufacturer’s “bells and whistles.”
first-arriving引擎通常拉过去的我nvolved structure to leave room for the truck, to allow a three-sided view for the officer, and to allow an easier deployment for fire attack off the rear. At my department, we have a 200-foot preconnect on the front bumper, which is constantly getting caught up and has to be brought around the rig and back to the fire, losing at least the first 25 to 50 feet before it can turn to the fire. One of the main points to take away from this paragraph is that you must know which hose loads your department pulls or wants to pull, and specify the rig to them vs. changing your loads because of apparatus manufacturers dictating hose beds.
With all this said, one of the best things we can do is get out in our districts and find the hard, long, and unusual stretches that may give us problems and overcome them before the emergency happens so when it does, the preparation will pay off. Why should we be surprised when we constantly have the opportunity through preplans and routine medical calls to take the five to 10 minutes to preplan or pull a line to see the results?
我在一次会议上听到的最有影响力的评论是在2015年西北领导力研讨会上来自陆军游骑兵肯尼·托马斯（Keni Thomas）。他说：（1）“拥有和不需要，没有需要，没有拥有的，”（2）“我看到了，我拥有它。”我们永远不知道下一个电话何时会下降以及它将在哪里，但是我们无数次出去进行医疗或结构电话或进行圆桌讨论，在下一次巡回演出中，我们进行了钻探的内容以某种形式出现或讨论。
I leave you with this:
小说家的教条
这是我的喷嘴。有很多喜欢的人，但这是我的。
The nozzle is used to save lives and property, so I must master its use.
没有我，喷嘴没有用。没有喷嘴，我没用。它是保护我发誓要保护和服务的工具。我必须尽我最大的能力将火热的敌人闪在我，我的公民或我的兄弟们之前。我会！
We know that what counts in this battle is not the halls we crawl, the crackle of the fire, nor the steam we make. We know that it is the “devil in the details” that makes or breaks us. We will extinguish through discipline, attention, and action.
I know my nozzle is set up for success, because it is my lifeline. I will know its disadvantages, its strength, its parts, its accessories, and its flows for which I will use to my advantage to take down the fiery enemy. I will keep my nozzle clean and ready, as I am ready. We are one. We will…
在我的兄弟们之前，我发誓这个信条。我的喷嘴和我是我们社区的保护者。我们是火热敌人的主人。我们在火焰和我们的公民之间放置有一个原因：因为我们是勇敢的人，他们会为我们不认识的人奠定生命。
所以,直到每一个唯一每火焰和extinguished, we will dedicate ourselves to our mission and be victorious.
-J. Mann
Reference
1. Brush, B. (2013). The Deadload Isn’t Dead. Retrieved fromwww.fireservicewarrior.com/2013/05/the-deadload-isnt-dead。
贾斯汀·曼is a 13-year fire service veteran and a resident of Moore, Oklahoma. He is a member of his department’s training division. Mann is a partner in a training company out of Oklahoma as well as the vice president of the Mid America F.O.O.L.S. Oklahoma City Metro Chapter, which promotes the fire service and training. FTM-PTB-DTRT-KTF.
