Taking Fire
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The worst Marine-on-Marine friendly fire incident in modern history happened during the war in Iraq. In Spring 2004, an explosion rocked a schoolhouse in the city of Fallujah. It left three dead and a dozen wounded. But you won't read about it in the history books. In fact, the event seems to have been scrubbed from the official record.
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Fighting fires and responding to emergencies pose obvious risks, but we now know from the hundreds of fire fighters battling cancer each year that there are other, less obvious risks associated with firefighting.
Cancer continues to be the leading cause of death among fire fighters. In September 2018, 164 of the 249 names added to the Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial Wall of Honor are of members who succumbed to occupational cancer. In fact, 65 percent of the members added to the Wall of Honor between 2002 and 2018 died from occupational cancer.
Numerous studies show that cancer rates are significantly higher for fire fighters than the general population. Furthermore, studies confirm a link between firefighting and an increased risk for specific types of cancer.
In 2015, researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released the results of a multi-year study on the link between fire fighters and cancer. The study included 30,000 fire fighters from three fire departments: Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Fire fighters in this study had a greater number of cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than the general population. Additionally, there were more cases of certain cancers among younger fire fighters. This study provided the evidence that fire fighters are at increased risk of certain types of cancer as a result of occupational exposure.
Despite these striking findings, the NIOSH study contained several limitations. There were very few women or minorities included in the study population. Additionally, there was a lack of information on actual fire fighter exposures.
Because of this, the IAFF led efforts to enact into law the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act. This important legislation creates a national registry for fire fighters to further gather data and information to determine cancer incidence and trends among fire fighters.
The cancer registry will help fill data gaps and begin to define the full scope of occupational cancer among fire fighters. The Act also directs the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to develop and maintain a voluntary registry of fire fighters to include employment records, number and types of fires, years of service, age when a fire fighter is diagnosed with cancer, circumstances and types of cancer, among other data points. The information gathered over time will be available for analysis by fire service agencies and researchers.
Meanwhile, the IAFF has continued to lead the fire service in promoting research on toxic exposures and prevention. As part of our ongoing efforts, the IAFF is conducting research on exposures, which includes per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foam and turnout gear, with preliminary results expected later this year. Each of these ongoing studies is expected to deepen the understanding of these exposures, the impact they have on the body and the effectiveness of preventive measures.
This training, available on the IAFF website, outlines the most prevalent types of cancers affecting fire fighters, identifies top carcinogens in the firefighting environment, reviews the many ways fire fighters are exposed to carcinogens and provides best practices for changing behaviors to reduce cancer risk.
With the increasing widespread acceptance of the link between cancer and firefighting, the IAFF and our affiliates have been successful in passing presumptive laws to provide benefits to fire fighters battling cancer. Forty-four states and all but one Canadian province now provide presumptive coverage or benefits eligibility for fire fighters with certain cancers.
The Professional Fire Fighters Association of Mississippi (PFFAM) is working on presumptive legislation that would provide benefits to fire fighters who contract specific cancers. The bill also includes language for heart disease and communicable diseases.
Meanwhile, Local 2928 in Palm Beach County, Florida, approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the County in February that includes cancer presumption language. At the state level, the Florida Professional Firefighters (FPF) has been diligently lobbying the Florida legislature over the course of many legislative sessions to pass a law protecting fire fighters diagnosed with cancer. This session, legislation requiring employers to provide health insurance policies covering cancer treatment without a deductible passed the Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee February 19. The bill has now moved to the Senate Community Affairs Committee for consideration.
In December, Saskatchewan announced it is adding prostate, skin, breast, multiple myeloma, cervical and ovarian cancer coverage for fire fighters, bringing the total number of cancers presumed occupational in the province to 16.
Additionally, the IAFF has also found very little data to support the use of blood tests for screening asymptomatic fire fighters. Some blood tests purport to identify a specific type of protein in the blood that exists only on the surface of a malignant cancer cell in patients with cancer or, more importantly, for screening in people who go on to develop cancer.
The IAFF supports fire fighter cancer screenings based on recommendations by established organizations, such as the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, with modifications to address the increased risk of certain cancers in fire fighters. The recommendation is to follow the IAFF/IAFC Wellness-Fitness Initiative (WFI) and the NFPA 1582 Standard on Comprehensive Occupational Medical Program for Fire Departments on annual medical exams that include the appropriate cancer screenings.
We rushed out to the street in pajamas, the kids in our hands. We ran out to the street as if our house was on fire, because we knew that our house really was on fire. Our democracy was set in flames by our prime minister.
Becoming a firefighter for the City of Raleigh is a highly competitive process. The Training Division receives many applications from men and women of varying backgrounds and experiences. As a result, the Raleigh Fire Department is a diverse group of people from across North Carolina and the United States. Those who have successfully completed the process and graduated to become a Raleigh Firefighter know that it is a challenging yet rewarding endeavor.
In two-and-a-half days, the working group outlined and wrote the initial draft of a white paper describing the status of cancer in the fire service and developed answers to very challenging questions. This report is the result of that working group which was enhanced by the additional review of multiple career and volunteer operational fire companies, additional clinical researchers and medical physicians, other stakeholders and the leadership of the FCSN.
As a typical public place, a university library has a large collection of books with heavy fire load, dense population, and large flow of people. The situation of safe evacuation in case of fire is very serious. This study utilizes Revit, Pyrosim, and Pathfinder software to research evacuation of a university library. First, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) is constructed based on Revit software in 1:1 scale. Second, the evacuation passage with the highest utilization rate was determined through Pathfinder software. According to the \"most unfavorable principle,\" the location near it was assumed to be where the fire occurred. Pyrosim software was used to determine the smoke spread, visibility, CO concentration, temperature, and other conditions at each stairway exit in case of fire. Finally, the evacuation situation is compared with that after man-made route planning. The results indicate that evacuation exits 1#, 7#, 13#, 19#, and 23# have the highest utilization rate. The safe evacuation time was 739.275 s, which was shortened to 638.025 s after man-made route planning, a 13.67% increase in evacuation efficiency. Evacuation efficiency can be significantly improved by increasing broadcast guidelines, adding signs, widening staircases, and other optimization suggestions, which can provide reference for the study of evacuation effects in public places and the improvement of the layout of public facilities.
Taking Fire is the incredible memoir by one of the most decorated chopper pilots to emerge from the Vietnam War. Nicknamed \"Mini-Man\" for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped by enemy fire, and a fearlessness that became legendary, Ron Alexander earned enough official praise to become the second most decorated helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era. Yet, for Ron, the real reward came from plucking his fellow soldiers from harm's way, giving them another chance to get home alive.In Taking Fire, Alexander and acclaimed military writer Charles Sasser transport you right into the cramped cockpit of a Huey on patrol, offering a bird's eye view of the Vietnam conflict. Packed with riveting action and gritty \"you-are-there\" dialogue, this outstanding book celebrates the everyday heroism of the chopper pilots of Vietnam.
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