As fire professionals, we continually strive to improve the
level of safety for our customers and fellow fire professionals.
Fire professionals who have the task of suppression look for
ways to improve the level of safety when they are called to
fight a fire. This may range from improving firefighter safety
through the use of the latest personal protection equipment,
conducting pre-incident surveys of the occupancies in their
districts and risking their lives for another. Those
professionals assigned to fire prevention, look to improve
safety to citizens and fire fighters through fire and life
safety education, fire protection engineering, fire inspections,
and code enforcement. But we must ask, are we really making an
impact? What can be done to actually improve firefighter safety,
decrease fire deaths and improve the overall level of fire
protection in the community which we serve? Let us look at the
big picture and link it to our community. Where are most of the
people dying from fire? The answer is the sa