Recalling (as well as I can) all the changes and advancements that have occurred in my “brief” 30-year career and daring to project from that what I believe the fire service world will look like in 2025, I offer the following brief thoughts:
• Instead of a fire service that occasionally does EMS, we will be an EMS service that occasionally does fire.
• Every jurisdiction in the country will have some form of “mandatory residential sprinkler” legislation on the books-hence, the first projection. Civilian fire deaths will plummet from today’s 4,000 annual average (including 1,500 children a year) to fewer than 2,000 a year.
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