Comments on: Smoking Saves Lives? http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/05/smoking-saves-lives/ Adventures of a Girl with No Fixed Address Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A. Wannabe Travelwriter http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/05/smoking-saves-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 A. Wannabe Travelwriter Tue, 12 May 2009 08:27:58 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=556#comment-3229 As another firefighter for 34+ years, I would add that people should really pay the most attention to what Keith called "defensibility." Being "alert" to announcements or that it is really hot, dry, and windy on a particular day is way too late to do anything but prepare to pack your car and get the hell out. Want to save your house? Learn about creating adequate defensible space, applying appropriate fire safe home construction techniques, and keeping flammable materials off and away from your home. Contrary to popular belief, more often than not, it is not luck that determines which homes survives a catastrophic wildland fire. As another firefighter for 34+ years, I would add that people should really pay the most attention to what Keith called “defensibility.”

Being “alert” to announcements or that it is really hot, dry, and windy on a particular day is way too late to do anything but prepare to pack your car and get the hell out.

Want to save your house? Learn about creating adequate defensible space, applying appropriate fire safe home construction techniques, and keeping flammable materials off and away from your home.

Contrary to popular belief, more often than not, it is not luck that determines which homes survives a catastrophic wildland fire.

]]> By: theprofessionalhobo http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/05/smoking-saves-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-3178 theprofessionalhobo Sat, 09 May 2009 05:00:15 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=556#comment-3178 Great response, Keith. It was a very high risk day for fire, and people should have been more alert. Thanks for the reminder. I know that personally, I will never look at a hot dry day in the same way, nor will I view fire the same way either. Great response, Keith. It was a very high risk day for fire, and people should have been more alert. Thanks for the reminder. I know that personally, I will never look at a hot dry day in the same way, nor will I view fire the same way either.

]]> By: Keith Gill http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/05/smoking-saves-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-3175 Keith Gill Sat, 09 May 2009 01:57:41 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=556#comment-3175 And..paying attention,listening to the announcements, being aware of your surroundings and vulnerability and defensibility and on and on. I have been fighting fires with helicopters for 34 years. This level of devastation, death and heart ache could have been reduced. Hard lessons were hopefully learned and lives will be saved in the future. Keith And..paying attention,listening to the announcements, being aware of your surroundings and vulnerability and defensibility and on and on. I have been fighting fires with helicopters for 34 years. This level of devastation, death and heart ache could have been reduced.
Hard lessons were hopefully learned and lives will be saved in the future.

Keith

]]> By: A. Wannabe Travelwriter http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2009/05/smoking-saves-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-3140 A. Wannabe Travelwriter Wed, 06 May 2009 15:28:10 +0000 http://theprofessionalhobo.com/?p=556#comment-3140 I'm enthusiastically working on a theory that "DRINKING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF BEER SAVES LIVES." I'll get back to you on the results...if I can remember to. I’m enthusiastically working on a theory that

“DRINKING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF BEER SAVES LIVES.”

I’ll get back to you on the results…if I can remember to.

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