Essays on Fire Department

Pro-Care Clinic is a general outpatient clinic facility that caters for basic health needs and mostly deals with outpatient issues (The Green Book). However, once in a while, the facility is required to handle serious issues that may require minor surgeries, child deliveries, or serious accidents. In such cases, the clinic admits the patients in its ward that accommodates 5 patients. Most of these cases are managed first before referring the patients to other equipped hospitals. The clinic has been known to handle these cases since there are no close hospitals in the neighborhood. The clinic has an administrator, ...

IMPACT OF THE INVENTION OF GPS

Introduction Technologies mean a lot for a modern person. Since the technological revolution, they have been integrating into our daily activities by means of smartphones, personal computers, music players and other gadgets which people use every day. The Global Positioning System is one of the handy technologies which help people not to get lost in a big city or a forest. With a help of GPS, one may freely find the way out of a situation when someone is lost and so forth. However, just like any technology that is integrated into our life, GPS has its advantages and ...

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Ever since the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, there has been a major overhaul in the health services that the community provides. One of the aspects that was changed was in terms of emergency medical services, commonly abbreviated to EMS. Since EMS is commonly handled by the fire department in various communities as well, they too are affected in this service. In fact, the changes made to the EMS system have a major impact regarding the relationship between hospitals and fire departments, and may prompt the latter in changing its ...

In this document, readers will be presented with a description of the expertise and knowledge of fire fighting. Fire fighting is an exceptionally imperative job. It protects many lives and possessions. Fire fighters put their life in danger each single day to help and protect the general public. All of the various concepts and knowledge, along with standards and professional qualification discussed in the course are proposed to present effective fire investigators with a base intensity of understanding in certain topics that involves fire investigation. The topics are summarized in NFPA 1033 – Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Investigator ...

The Family Medical Leave Act is a U.S. federal piece of legislation under the US Department of Labor which is aimed at providing employees with job security. It is designed to protect employees from any adverse actions by their employers whenever they are absent from work due to child adoption, child birth, serious personal illness or that of a close member of the family and moral support for a member of the army who has been called to active duty (Susser, 2004, p. 172). It provides an unpaid leave that guarantees an employee’s reinstatement to the same position ...

Communication and Problem Solving Practices in Public Safety Agencies

Abstract Communication and problem solving are necessary for public safety agencies to be effective. Employees cannot adequately respond to disasters if they do not have the correct information or the information at all. Historically, public service agencies have used different communication protocols and equipment. This has resulted in a severe lack of coordination to disasters and emergencies that require the cooperation of different public safety agencies. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina are prime examples of the lack of coordinated communication and problem solving amongst different agencies. New technologies such as geographical ...

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Emergency planning is a challenge for public service agencies facing budget cuts, changes in available technology, changing community needs, and the consolidations of agencies with different missions and objectives. The literature on how public safety agencies can best respond to emergencies stress the importance of not consolidating emergency management service, fire and police departments. The literature also emphasizes the importance of the planning process, and how information systems can help with the consolidation of information and analysis. Response methods and analysis primarily come from the planning process, although feedback from the front-line is necessary. The City of Pompano Beach’ ...

Program Goal # 1

Upon completion of the Public Safety Administration Program, students will have demonstrated the acquisition of the ability to apply appropriate strategies to manage, supervise, and lead public safety administration departments and staff.

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Issues about public safety are of great concern to the communities. Communities and individuals are exposed to various environmental hazards. If nothing is done to uphold safety standards, communities and individuals suffer. People who are concerned with ensuring that the public thrives in safe conditions are therefore expected to be knowledgeable about various issues surrounding public safety. Being a potential officer involved in safety issues in the ...

Chapter 7: Review of Case Study 7-3. Beth Ann Faragher v City of Boca Raton

Chapter 7: Review of Case Study 7-3. Beth Ann Faragher v City of Boca Raton Sexual harassment and gender discrimination are common problems in many organizations including fire service police organizations. In this case, the US Supreme Court rightly held the city to have been vicariously liable for the misconduct of its supervisors towards Faragher. According to Bennett (2008), the lesson that fire department can learn from this case is that they should have in place clearly written policy on sexual harassment in order to avoid such liabilities (p.89). The court also noted that had the department had a ...

This type of liability of the Oakwood Fire Department and its chief according to Bennett (2008) accrued mainly due to lack of a duly prepared pre-plan on how the fire situation was to be approached and handled. This lack of a pre-plan led the department’s chief to order the use or splashing of water on the chemical properties of Ohio Briquetting thus exacerbating the damage. It amounted to recklessness and negligence attracting liability. He therefore the preparation of a pre-plan for structures that includes hazardous materials or metals like titanium upon which water should not be used. Firstly, ...

In response to the fire tragedy that resulted in the death of firefighter Oscar Armstrong, according to the NIOSH Fire Fatality Investigation Report (2005), the Cincinnati Fire Department has made a number of changes to avert similar incidents from recurring in future. First, the Department has reviewed and revised its current standard operating procedures (SOPs) with respect to fire fighting. This is to ensure that its firefighting officers don not at any time enter burning structures without charge hose lines since it this was one of the factors that led to Armstrong’s death according to the report. Further ...

Fire systems are designed for different services such as to warn people of fires, to stop fires, to create a safe environment for people in a fire among other reasons. The installation of these system depends on the buildings and occupants or the kind of materials in the buildings such as flammable liquids or electronic devices. The selection of these systems should meet the set standards by the different fire-related organisations. The following is a look at some of the fire and prevention systems.

Standpipe System

Standpipe systems are a number of pipes that connect a water supply to hose connections. ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial is one of the significant trials in the history of America’s Industrial Revolution. It involved hundreds of factory workers who were exposed to an unsafe work environment and unjustly treated within the criminal justice system. Nevertheless, its aftermath resulted in an overhaul of the legislative and policy framework governing the safety of workers in their work environment and building codes. On March 25, 1911 a deadly fire struck the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building in New York resulting in a death toll of 146 people, 145 of whom were ...

Q1. Identify two strategies based on the fiscal and monetary policy that would encourage people to spend money in order to create economic growth. Fiscal and monetary policies are demand side policies that can be strategically employed for realizing economic growth by motivating consumers to spend money. It can be made possible by brining an increase in aggregate demand (AD) if the economy is passing through recession or growth is below the expected level (Pettinger, 2012). Monetary policy can be the most randomly used tool for impacting economic activity. To encourage AD, the Central Bank of a country can ...

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9/11 is one of the most terrifying acts of terror during modern times leaving causalities that reached up to 2,977 overall including the twin towers, the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville.(Kevin McCoy, 2015).

The World Trade Centre Site:

It all started on a clear Tuesday morning at 8; 45 am to be more specific, when a Boeing 767 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre (WTC). The first crash was followed by a second one 18 minutes later targeting the South tower. At 9:45 am exactly, when people were still in shock watching the collapse of the ...

The objective of this paper is to compare two strategic plans drawn for two fire stations. A strategic plan is a blueprint prepared by an organisation to aid with equitable resource allocation, thereby helping it to achieve specific goals and objectives. Creating a good strategic plan entails the process of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation as well as the personal values of individuals who formulate the process. The societal expectations, as well as the external opportunities and threats, are also included in a good strategic plan (Simerson 68). The Hartford Fire Department’s Strategic Plan covers ...

Houston Fire department has a vision for the future which is well articulated in their vision statement. The HFD’s vision statement states that, “HFD will be recognized as a premier public service organization, respected and admired by our peers and the community as the most diverse, innovative, and public safety provider in the world (City of Houston, 2015).” The department is looking forward to continued improvements in the future to better respond to and address the needs of the community they serve. Contrary to the belief that a fire department only exists to attend to fire calls, HFD ...

Introduction

A cut to public safety in California has been an issue which has been within this state for a period of time. Particularly, the issue is on the budget cut on the finances that has been allocated on the public safety. It is very unfortunate that the cuts have some adverse impacts on the safety services which are aimed for the public needs. There have been an intense debate on this issue and this has therefore attracted a great deal of people.

Some key players in the issue

Some of the people are for the idea of having the cuts while some are against the budget cuts ...