Art "Chief Reason" Goodrich's Blog – December 2014 Archive (3)

I wish to take this opportunity to wish all my friends and fellow bloggers a very Merry Christmas.

Thank you PennWell, www.fireengineering.com,  and especially Bobby H., Erich R., Scott Nelson and the best blog manager around, Peter Prochilo.

You have provided me with a platform to share my diverse thoughts to a very…

It’s not hard to remember December in 1999.

That year, in the month of December alone, this nation’s fire service lost EIGHTEEN firefighters in the line of duty.

Two fires accounted for half of that total.

On December 3,…

Recently, I have been reading articles on this subject with much uneasiness.

In fact; I hesitate to call suicide a “subject”, because for many; suicide is real and has impacted them. It has reached out and grabbed them in some way. It is someone very close to them, someone they know or someone famous, whose career they have followed.

And, are loved ones LEFT to make “sense…