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Lives in:: Wichita, KS

Department:: Wichita Fire Dept.

Title/rank:: Lt

Agency structure:: Paid fire department

Bio:: Samuel Hittle is a Lieutenant with Wichita Fire. He has an Associates in Fire Science, an FDIC, Traditions Training, and Wichita HoT Instructor, FDIC Lecturer, contributing author for Fire Engineering, Urban Firefighter, Fire Rescue publications, and serves on the UL Interior Attack Technical Panel.

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Experience vs Science

Once again we are seeing a push by some to devalue fire service “experience” while inflating presumptions from the recent UL interior attack study. They would prefer we dismiss years of fire ground learning for data we do not yet have on limited experiments. Is this really a worthwhile debate or a preemptive attempt to further separate and stigmatize factions within…

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Posted on March 30, 2016 at 3:30pm

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