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Dan Shaw's Blog – September 2015 Archive (2)

THE SUNDAY PREACH

It's Really The Only Time You Have

"We know that the SCBA is our only protection against the products of combustion. It protects our respiratory system from harm. There is a big difference, however, between wearing your SCBA and using it. We would never go into a fire without wearing one on our

backs, but sometimes, perhaps for a small incipient fire or in the overhaul stages, we don’t wear it. How many times have you been at a job where once one firefighter takes his or her mask…

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Added by Dan Shaw on September 20, 2015 at 5:32pm — No Comments

THE SUNDAY PREACH

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;

what we have done for others and the world remains and

is immortal.” Albert Pike (Introduction, Page 14)

We start our book with this quote and we end every class with this quote because it captures how we should conduct ourselves each and everyday. It forces us to perform a level of self evaluation and determine if our actions are…

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Added by Dan Shaw on September 6, 2015 at 12:28pm — No Comments

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