Near Miss: MVA with Fight and Fire
This incident has a little of everything - a vehicle accident with injuries, a fight between onlookers and firefighters, and a fire with injuries to firefighters.
FF (Name deleted) intervened and told the gentleman to calm down immediately. He turned to FF (name deleted) and asked him who the “f” he was and to get the **** out of his face. He then jumped at FF (name deleted) apparently to hit him or scare him. In defense, FF (name deleted) threw him onto the ground to calm him down and to defend himself. The gentleman then began to hit FF (name deleted) and the fight began. In defense of his father, LT (name deleted) intervened into the fight. I contacted Communications and advised them to have the police “step it up” because a large fight had broken out.
This is a longer near miss report, but read the whole thing. Lots of unexpected stuff happened at this incident. It really isn't a near miss because firefighters did get injured.
Once you've read through the report, imagine your fire department responding to this incident and handling all of the complications. How would your department do? Would you get the job done without any injuries?
Posted November 10, 2005 09:45 AM · Link
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