The future of firefighting will greatly be challenged to improve upon today’s technologies, policies, and procedures, as well as to create new and more effective solutions to the world’s fire problems. There is much to be accomplished in the future if you want to know. There are many challenges currently awaiting us. The development of more nuclear energy and atomic bombs, the new chemical processes, new materials, and the advanced methods of manufacturing (building, vehicles, etc.) are a challenge from a fire protection standpoint. These new problems must be met and this will require highly informed firefighters and much greater specialization. Firefighters in the days to come will of necessity need to have a much higher and complex educational background sufficient to advance into these fields of high specialization.
You have asked me where the Fire Service is going. My answer is this. The Fire Service is going exactly where we take it. If we develop in the technical fields which are necessary, if we show a proper cooperative spirit, and if we provide the leadership which the Fire Service properly deserves, the citizens will be better protected; our working conditions will improve; proper working hours will be established; adequate salaries will prevail and we will go on to even higher pinnacles than we can ever imagine.
But before we think about the future and what's in-store for the fire service, we need to be more concerned about the challenges that face us now such as constant budget cuts, over worked men, budget cuts, poor and lack of firefighting equipment, poor and inadequate training, budget cuts, lack of volunteers, gaps in leadership and the list goes on.
The need to take care of 'now' is important to ensure there is a tomorrow.
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HoseMonkey
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