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Les Allen's Blog – May 2016 Archive (2)

Can You Help?

CAN YOU HELP??

 

Recently I read something in the news about in reference to a certain fire department here in the United States about the fire department and EMS department being separate but it wasn’t so much as to the being separate departments of being the problem. Here in lies the problem: It’s a policy that’s in effect about the EMS and fire personnel not being able to play together. Now, I’ll go into a little more detail. “911, What’s your emergency?” “My…

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Added by Les Allen on May 27, 2016 at 10:19pm — No Comments

Remain Aware of Suicidal Tendencies

Another shift day. The smells of the firehouse when walking in at the start of the new tour. Another 24 hours and homeward bound again to be with our biological families. But somewhere in the world within our brotherhood of business, someone will not get to go home; even as much as we strive for everyone's safety, so that everyone can go home; we live with the reality of one of our brothers or sisters not coming home. This is the nature of our career. We signed up for it, but we…

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Added by Les Allen on May 27, 2016 at 9:59pm — No Comments

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