r/Firefighting • u/The_Road_is_Calling NH FF • Nov 25 '24

News Ohio fire department confronted about response to double fatal fire

https://chroniclet.com/news/411559/wakeman-fire-board-meeting-ends-in-shouting-match-over-fatal-fire/
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u/Fireguy9641 VOL FF/EMT Nov 25 '24

Part of this sounds like someone who is angry and hurting and wants someone to blame so they are just going to try to blame the fire department.

If the department got there 3.5 minutes after the dispatch, there's not much more you can ask for.

If there was a victim screaming for help, then they should have made an effort to rescue her but there's a lot these articles leave to guessing so it's hard to know if she was rescueable.

It's a tough choice to have to go defensive, but the situation may have warranted it, if she was in a place that couldn't be accessed without killing the firefighters to get to her, that's not risking a lot.