How to Improve Event Safety, Response

Mass Casualty content from Fire Chief: You never know where networking at a conference might lead. It has been several years since I first met Duncan White, a station manager, i.e., the lead officer at a station, with the Devon & Somerset Fire Rescue Service, a fire brigade in the United Kingdom. Duncan and I had both attended the U.S./U.K. Fire Service Symposium in Plano, Texas, hosted by former Chief Bill Peterson. Shortly before this year’s FDIC in Indianapolis, White contacted Peterson to ask whether the Institution of Fire Engineers could send a representative to an important meeting being held the week after the conference at the Indiana State Capitol. Peterson contacted me with current contact information for Duncan and forwarded his request.