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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Indirect Supervision

The days of believing that NFPA standards, textbooks and articles in magazines have no effect on fire departments and fire chiefs are over. Take, for example, the 1999 townhouse fire in the District of Columbia that resulted in two line-of-duty deaths and two other severe injuries. Firefighter Anthony Sean Phillips Sr. entered the first floor of the residence with his officer, Lt. Frederick Cooper. After entering the structure, Cooper and Phillips became separated. Cooper exited the building and subsequently determined that Phillips had not. Meanwhile firefighters Louis J. Matthews and Joseph Morgan, and Lt. Charles Redding also entered ...

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