Video illustrates a need to always explore our mistakes.
Or what appears to be mistakes.
Recidivism applies to behavioral relapses, usually criminal, and anti-social behavior.
It is also part of a measure in determining success and fail rates in behavior modification.
The fire service needs to consider recidivism. Not in the criminal context but in the evaluation of the methods used to transition education from training to actual event.
Unless, of course, we’re all okay with setting the bar at “the fire went out, no one was hurt and everyone went home” level. If that’s the case, then disregard this.
It should also be noted that this was a fire in a vacant house.
No firefighters were injured so I imagine that may negate the errors in the minds of some.
Reference
“Crews Contain Gorham House Fire After 2 Hours“, WMUR
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There are so many things spinning through my head right now but I’ll choose this one to say. I don’t necessarily blame the guys in the video. It appears from the video there were some preparation issues, perhaps some training issues and maybe some tactics and strategy issues. However, if that is all you know and are trained by the same “old guard” that keeps doing things the same way how can you expect anything different? Should it be different? Absolutely. But for a large majority of the country they do the best they can with what they’ve got. I guess that’s the best I can come up with.
That’s a lot of issues.
Bill Carey
I mean i understand not wanting to go into a vacant house. Listen personally I and the companies that I ride on do aggressive interior attacks on every fire we respond to.But if thats how they do things thats fine. But having all of your packs leaking air, the driver not getting the truck in pump, and the chief pulling the line and starting to knock fire down instead of establishing a command post thats an issue. It just depends on how you train and how you play, but stuff like that is obvious.