THE COMPANY OFFICER


the company officer is that everyone gets to go home to his or her families. Property can be replaced, lives cannot.

Safety should be the strongest emphasis in every situation; there should be a zero tolerance for safety violations. Safety should be stressed at every incident and training opportunity. You should conduct quick and complete critiques of all major incidents to review what went well and what did not. This is the only time you will have all the firefighters together again at the same incident.

Now a little bit of information to read and remember,

We will start every response with the assumption that we can and will save lives and property.

We may risk lives a lot, to protect or rescue savable lives.

We may risk lives a little, to protect savable property.

We will not risk firefighter lives at all to rescue or protect lives and property already lost.

To put it in layman’s terms; Risk a lot to save a lot, risk nothing to save nothing.

Hope this helps somebody in the fire service out there………In the meantime STAY SHARP AND BE SAFE.

Robert Moyer, Captain, Perry Center Fire Department

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