The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's Firefighter Life Safety Initiative #4 calls for empowering all firefighters to speak up to stop unsafe operations. This initiative has proven to be more controversial than anyone could have predicted.
Deputy Chief Steve Prziborowski notes that the fire academies do an excellent job preparing new firefighters to speak up if they see or hear something they believe to be unsafe. Unfortunately, once recruits join an established crew, they are, all too often, discouraged from speaking up.
In this Everyone Goes Home Speak Up segment, Deputy Chief Prziborowski urges all fire officers to take Firefighter Life Safety Initiative 4 seriously, to ensure it is honored, drilled on often, and in effect at every incident.
