When an electrical short in her dishwasher spewed sparks two years ago, she ran down the street to get firefighters.
Six more pounds may seem a minor inconvenience for a lifesaving system designed to get firefighters out of a building in under 10 seconds.
We get firefighters risking (and, in one case, losing) life and limb to save abandoned structures — some of which, including the frequently ablaze Packard plant, might be better left, at long last, to burn down.
Godwin believed that parachuting firefighters from airplanes as soon as fires were detected and as near to the fire as possible would provide the fastest way to get firefighters in place before a fire raged out of control.
Mr. Gribbon also said the emphasis, so far, has been on getting firefighters trained to work in contaminated areas.
In one of his best-known works, he reversed Ray Bradbury's book-burning classic Fahrenheit 451 by getting firefighters to give away once-banned books.
The officials outlined a range of department reforms and innovations they say are needed, including getting firefighters to medical emergencies quicker, improving use of technology and data analyses, and merging two separate 911 call centers operated by the fire and police departments.
For the time being, we must focus on evacuating where prudent, getting firefighters the support they need to protect as much property as possible without endangering themselves needlessly, and hope that the destruction we've already seen stands as the peak of this outbreak, and not just the opening act.
Initially, Mr. Lennon was planning only to get some firefighters' stories on film.
So how can we get more firefighters to recognize members of non-prototypical groups as being equally capable of success in the fire service?
