morning lineup firegeezer on 17 Aug 2008 06:45 am
Morning Lineup - August 17
Here it is, another Sunday already. It’s always so peaceful outside on Sunday mornings. Let’s hope it stays that way.
The underlying theme of the fire and rescue events this past week seems to have been “safety.” We didn’t plan it that way, it’s just how events tumbled out. They seem to batch themselves that way and I always find that fascinating. Another undercurrent of events has been under the category of “arson,” although we didn’t have nearly the time to get into all of those items that came along.
Maybe we’ll have the chance to wrap those two topics up for a while. It will be interesting to see what spontaneous topics bubble to the top this week. And then we’ll be having all the folks coming back home from the F.R.I. in Denver and they’ll be sparking some new discussions on what solutions are being tackled in the administrative levels. Do you think that “lightweight construction” is still a priority? We’ll see how that goes. Personally, I’d like to see much more public effort by both the IAFC and the IAFF, along with the state and local chapters of both, to get that problem turned around. I just don’t like this idea of firefighters being forced to stay outside and watch houses burn down because the home builder saved a couple of thousand in costs by putting up a wood-chip-and-glue sham of a building.
Anyway, we still have to get this equipment checked out. I’ll go start the coffee and in a little while we can get the Sunday breakfeast going. Meanwhile, this week’s photo art will help get our mind off of that August heat that’s building up out there. See you later in the Day Room.
