Capitol Fire Training

5.25.26
Today we memorialize those who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in our United States Military. This day we pause to pay our respects, say “Thank You” and appreciate the freedoms that we have, because of those who served!
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With respect from all instructors of Capitol Fire Training LLC, we say THANK YOU!!!

Sometimes It’s Not Safe
“Safety Culture”
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Is he tied in?
Is maintaining 2 points of contact?
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These are questions that every safety officer is asking looking at this picture. There’s probably a safety officer seeing this picture and having a conniption fit right now…And that’s okay. Because the reality of a safety officer is to ensure that people are moving safely in an effort to “minimize” harm to our firefighters. The key word in there…”MINIMIZE”.
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There’s never going to be zero injuries in the fire service and there’s always going to be some “one off’s” of things that we didn’t think about that resulted in a firefighter being injured, but the fact remains this…
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The entire job that we do is unsafe. There’s nothing safe about running into a burning building. But what makes everything we do “safer” is our ability to carry out tasks after having practiced them 100x, in many different ways, even if it’s uneasy to watch from a distance. When it comes to a firefight there’s going to be things that we do that may be “a little dicey” and those things are done in an ultimate effort to gain the most perfect position on the fire/fireground. At the end of the day we also have a responsibility to carry out the orders at hand and sometimes it requires some moves or maneuvers that may put us in a little bit of danger. That doesn’t mean that we forgo the task.
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I think it’s safe to say that we all want to go home, we all want a quality of life that’s good for us and our family, but sometimes we have to do what we have to do. This isn’t a call for a reckless fireground mission, but it is a call for our safety managers to say trust the members, let them work and let them get the job done. After all the move you’re watching for the first time might’ve been practiced 30 times over.
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(📸 members from Frederick Fire Tower 1 operating on a church fire. The company was tasked with top side ventilation on a fast moving fire, but the roof was compromised in many areas forcing them to have lay on the bucket floor to cut while the chauffeur operated the bucket from the turntable).
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