Leadership Steven Kraft FDIC

An excellent talk that every firefighter and officer should hear, no matter what type or size fire department in which they are involved. In fact this talk applies to any organization. A special thanks to FDIC for providing this video.

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Attitude! The American fire service has the wrong attitude and description of this JOB! That's it! It Is A JOB, Not an adventure! This is what every fire fighter and officer should be basing the Job on.
"Stop The Threat as Fast and Safe as possible while using the Least Amount of Water." Now THINK long and hard about each of those Capitalized letters. You approach every situation like it is You, Your Family and Your Possessions!
STOP The Threat!
What is the Threat at any fire? What causes everything that is bad. Combustion = Gasses = Flames = Heat!! What do we use the most to eliminate Combustion? Water! So it seems the best way to protect victims, fire fighters and the structure is to eliminate the Combustion.
FAST and SAFE!
If you see Visible Burning Material when you arrive, you extinguish the burning material. If it is outside the house like a garage, you use whatever tool that applies water the Fastest and most effective! Not the most Fun! Not your favorite toy! If the fire is inside a room, you break the windows at the fire rooms to open a direct venting location to the exterior and apply water to the burning material! You have just lowered the temperature by 1000 degrees in a few seconds.
The vast majority of fires are in residential dwellings and every room in a house or apartment has windows. So where ever the fire is, it will most likely be visible. If you want to get more smoke out of the house, you check wind direction and open more windows after all VBM has been extinguished. Opening windows can me done Fast and Safe from the exterior in street close if necessary. Water can be applied to the VBM in street close if necessary. So once the pump is activated and the onboard water is ready to flow, there is No reason why VBM can't be Quickly and Safely eliminated.
There is NEVER a better reason to climb on the roof of a BURNING BUILDING to vent heat and smoke than just opening windows and applying water!
LEAST AMOUNT of WATER!
Why? First of all, it makes you THINK of where every drop goes and what it does. It makes you THINK about turning off the nozzle off when you have eliminated the threat. It makes you THINK that you could run out at any time! It makes you THINK about unnecessary water damage.
Enough said because that pretty much covers everything. 90% of these motivational speeches are BS. K.I.S.S.

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Statistically GPM’s save lives. Stuff can be replaced, lives can’t. Risk Management 101, your welcome.

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@@hankaaron3942 You are 10 years old with as good memory to repeat what other people have told you to think. Right?

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@@JB91710 we can agree to disagree. Good luck with your strategy, you can put the dead stuff on the red stuff. I’m not afraid of a little water.

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@@hankaaron3942 Fountain Statues don't care about how much water they use. They are as brain dead as most fire departments in this country. You belong to a large group.

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