I'm afraid you're living in dinosaur times.... Doing professional training and being professional is really not that much to ask of someone conducting offensive fire attack. That doesn't mean career. It just means you dedicate enough time to the craft to know the hazards and learn basic skills to keep yourself and your buddies alive. The reality is that if you go to a fire and there's someone in there... you're going to try and go in and get them out... and if you don't understand what you're dealing with.. you could be in there dead with them. Like I said before... I do not understand that notion where myself, as a volunteer... is going to give my life in vain to save someone else simply because I was stupid enough to bust the door down and go in unprepared. So I guess the answer is yes... if you're not up to doing that level of training then you're probably better off not there at all. It's not a bureaucratic mindset... it's just a preference for life on my own part. I've witnessed one of these 'heroes' at work... in one instance he stormed a house alone with no PPE to rescue two people. Fortunately they all survived... but the soot line was halfway to the floor. I was listening to this on the radio as we responded... and all I could think of is that two of us would be dragging three of them out on arrival. Another time we grabbed him just before he discharged a forestry back pack on an energized electrical fire burning cattails on the edge of a pond. Talk about risking it ALL for absolutely NOTHING. I find it amusing reading some of the other responses in this thread about the ineffectiveness of some dept's... spraying water on the roof while it burns to the ground, etc. All I could think of... was what a lack of training that they would be doing that. They could still mount a proper defensive attack to hold the fire and transition to offensive when resources allow. That's done here all the time...
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