Any firefighter who broke with policy could have landed in a world of bureaucratic payback. That’s the problem. No government worker in America gets fired for following the rules. As Russo put it, “We need an approach toward public service that is less rule-bound and more willing to take risk.",/i>This bureaucratic approach of first responder managment types in rule bound risk free environment is sadly growing. Thus is the mind of the liberal in which there should be 0 risk in life.
In my CERT and MRC training we are repeatedly told that if the situation poses any risk at all, we are to back out to a safe distance. Granted we are not first responders, but if we are there, it's already really bad.
CERT and MRT are told to back out to a safe distance so the actual rescuers dont have to worry about rescuing them.