Posted on 07/07/2012 3:14:17 AM PDT by rawhide
...because he gave her his air mask during rescue
A heroic firefighter who rescued a woman from a burning home is reportedly in trouble after giving her his air mask.
As Philadelphia firefighter Fran Cheney carried Mary Jackson out of the home he selflessly gave her his own air mask - worried she wouldn’t survive the dangerous smoke.
However after Wednesday's successful rescue, rather than praising Cheney a top fire department official allegedly told him that removing his air mask was not ‘a smart move.’
And Cheney’s decision to remove his mask during the rescue mission has now led to an investigation.
The firefighter’s risk paid off and both he and Jackson managed to get out of the home unharmed.
Entering the burning home in the Kensington area, Cheney heard screaming and found Jackson in a second floor bedroom struggling for breath.
The mask was on ‘positive pressure’ which means it blows smoke away, Cheney explained.
Despite wearing no mask, Cheney managed to carry the woman through the smoke and down the stairs to safety.
After the family were all safely rescued a top fire department official told Cheney that his actions were not ‘very smart’, the firefighter said.
But Cheney stuck by his decision arguing that he was not ‘worrying about directives’ or paperwork when he was saving Jackson.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is why we need due dilligence in firing management in government...not just unionized workers
A person who makes a dumb ass comment like this has no business in any type of management/supervisory role....these people need to be fired
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
Like zero tolerance in schools, it is the mindless substitution of rules worked out by committees who never have to face the actual situations themselves for the on-the-scene judgements of the experienced professionals. To them, a dead woman in the arms of a masked firefighter is preferrable to the firefighter taking a chance by sharing his mask to save her life.
All done to please the race whiners, the PC mavens, the insurance companies, and the lawyers.
The piece missing from the mindset of bureaucrats is judgment. That does not come from a textbook, but experience.
What happened to this country is that bureaucrats have infested every aspect of our society. Even my church vestry is a constant constant battle to get something done.
Think about it, it is all about money. If the victim had died there would be no compensation to be paid but if the firefighter had died, there would have been.
Those that can ..do
Those that can’t instructor supervise and criticize.
Not refuting what you said, but your post reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw years ago;
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
};^)
From: Essays on Political Economy
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
By: Frederic Bastiat (1874)
“That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen”
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen. The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference—the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
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Key ingredient, “that which should have been foreseen”.
There are 2 kinds of people. Those who do things and those who talk about doing things. Those who do things learn from experience, some good and some not good. With experience the perspective for reality increases. Perception of what is “real” is essential for leadership.
Corruption has eaten us from within, and now the global ruling elite (socialists) are feasting on the remains.
May GOD Bless that Fireman! What a totally selfless, Christian Deed he did for that woman. One seldom hears of such a brave act in these times. That Fire Dept. should give him a Raise and a Medal both. Shame on Them.
True on so many levels. The lack of that perception is what leads to disasters...the first coming to mind, space shuttle Challenger.
You argue with the be bureaucrats at your peril.
This is all gonna come to no good end..
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