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Hearts and sirens: Preventing emotional overload
By Douglas Cline | 01/10/2013
The personality profile of the emergency service worker is one that is action-oriented tainted with the concept of control. It is not hard to figure out what drives the average emergency service worker. It is the adrenaline rush that is produced from responding to a working structure fire that has been upgraded by the first arriving unit to a second alarm assignment, to a gunshot wound to the chest that requires the medical responder to provide a vast array of life saving skills or a technical rescue where specialized skills have to be deployed to save a life or mitigate a hazard. To many these are routine responses and probably will be hand... Read More...
Relevant Tags: stress, emergency, fire, incident, symptoms, emergency responders, emergency services, signs symptoms, incident stress, service worker, stress education, emergency service
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The golden rule
DAVE MURPHY | 01/11/2010
Our essential mission and number one priority is to deliver the best possible service to our customers —or is it? Do we only show up when someone calls 911? If this is the case, I maintain you are not providing the best possible service to your customer, the citizens that pay your salary, or provide the necessary resources for you to operate. Read More...
Relevant Tags: Fire,fire, service, customer, rescue, department, fire rescue, golden rule, fire department, possible service
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Build Now, but proceed carefully!
KEN NEWELL | 01/11/2010
The recent economic downturn (or disaster, depending on your point of view) has resulted in some of the best construction prices in years. Construction bids for stations are anywhere from 25 to 40 percent lower than they were only three years ago. If your department is serious about building new or renovating, NOW is the perfect opportunity. Don’t count on ever seeing construction prices this low again. Read More...
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Guatemala Mission Bound 2009
David Pease | 10/21/2009
For several years now I have gone to the Appalachian mountains with a group from my church on an ASP project to do repairs and construction on houses of those less fortunate. These folks could not otherwise afford to have these repairs done and live with leaking roofs, in dilapidated dwellings, with dangerous wiring, and some with inferior plumbing. The feeling you get from this is a satisfaction that is hard to describe. You come back knowing you made a difference in one family’s life who will never forget what you and your team did for them. Read More...
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