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The Role of the Safety Officer

from Fire Engineering, 06/01/2008

Question: Some departments have full-time trained safety officers who respond to fires. Other departments don’t have that luxury. How is the safety officer position filled in your department at a working fire?

I am of the opinion that the fire service is reinventing itself. One hundred years ago, pretty much all firefighters did was fight fires. I started my career at the tail end of that era. Only three years before I came on the job, Toledo started its paramedic program. In my early career, I voluntarily took EMT training. It became mandatory years after that....

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