Comments on: Fully Engulfed Meteor: You Make the Call http://firedaily.com/2010/04/fully-engulfed-meteor-you-make-the-call/ For Firefighters...By Firefighters Tue, 01 May 2012 08:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mickmayers http://firedaily.com/2010/04/fully-engulfed-meteor-you-make-the-call/comment-page-1/#comment-499 mickmayers Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:06:24 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1614#comment-499 We had an SOG for response to unknown objects coming from outside the atmosphere but I can't remember the title (nor can I find it now). We generated a boiler-plate "recognize and run" procedure after the whole discussion of the Skylab-like object falling several years ago- remember? (There was a Homeland Security alert and all, if you recall).<br><br>If a meteor strikes the woods and the woods are on fire, sounds like a woods fire call. That the meteor caused it is irrelevant to me. Now if the meteor lands on someone and we have to extricate someone from a molten outer-space mass, now THAT'S a guideline. We had an SOG for response to unknown objects coming from outside the atmosphere but I can't remember the title (nor can I find it now). We generated a boiler-plate “recognize and run” procedure after the whole discussion of the Skylab-like object falling several years ago- remember? (There was a Homeland Security alert and all, if you recall).

If a meteor strikes the woods and the woods are on fire, sounds like a woods fire call. That the meteor caused it is irrelevant to me. Now if the meteor lands on someone and we have to extricate someone from a molten outer-space mass, now THAT'S a guideline.

]]> By: mickmayers http://firedaily.com/2010/04/fully-engulfed-meteor-you-make-the-call/comment-page-1/#comment-356 mickmayers Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:06:24 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1614#comment-356 We had an SOG for response to unknown objects coming from outside the atmosphere but I can't remember the title (nor can I find it now). We generated a boiler-plate "recognize and run" procedure after the whole discussion of the Skylab-like object falling several years ago- remember? (There was a Homeland Security alert and all, if you recall).<br><br>If a meteor strikes the woods and the woods are on fire, sounds like a woods fire call. That the meteor caused it is irrelevant to me. Now if the meteor lands on someone and we have to extricate someone from a molten outer-space mass, now THAT'S a guideline. We had an SOG for response to unknown objects coming from outside the atmosphere but I can't remember the title (nor can I find it now). We generated a boiler-plate “recognize and run” procedure after the whole discussion of the Skylab-like object falling several years ago- remember? (There was a Homeland Security alert and all, if you recall).

If a meteor strikes the woods and the woods are on fire, sounds like a woods fire call. That the meteor caused it is irrelevant to me. Now if the meteor lands on someone and we have to extricate someone from a molten outer-space mass, now THAT'S a guideline.

]]> By: Car150 http://firedaily.com/2010/04/fully-engulfed-meteor-you-make-the-call/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Car150 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:18:14 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1614#comment-355 I had to re-look to see if this was an April Fools Joke...nope !?!? This is definitely a situation involving risk analysis. The risk of enacting an SOG includes contributing to global warming by utilizing paper( Kill a Tree !), electricity for the computer (fossil burning gen plant ?), thinking and researching evidence, interspersed with a chlorestrol/fat filled food/drink break VERSUS the risk that in your lifetime you will respond to a meteor fire (assuming it is not so big that it revert's us to the next Ice Age ). Conclusion.....Save a Tree and go for a walk !! I had to re-look to see if this was an April Fools Joke…nope !?!? This is definitely a situation involving risk analysis. The risk of enacting an SOG includes contributing to global warming by utilizing paper( Kill a Tree !), electricity for the computer (fossil burning gen plant ?), thinking and researching evidence, interspersed with a chlorestrol/fat filled food/drink break VERSUS the risk that in your lifetime you will respond to a meteor fire (assuming it is not so big that it revert's us to the next Ice Age ). Conclusion…..Save a Tree and go for a walk !!

]]> By: Bill Carey http://firedaily.com/2010/04/fully-engulfed-meteor-you-make-the-call/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Bill Carey Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:22:56 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1614#comment-354 Meteor SOP, ha ha.<br>A testing service once hired me to write a fireground scenario for a TX dept. that hired them to do a line officer promotional test. They sent me tons of documents, manuals and SOPs from that department. Among their emergency operations directives was a SOP for African Bee attacks. Four pages, front and back.<br><br>Their high-rise fire SOP?<br><br>One. Meteor SOP, ha ha.
A testing service once hired me to write a fireground scenario for a TX dept. that hired them to do a line officer promotional test. They sent me tons of documents, manuals and SOPs from that department. Among their emergency operations directives was a SOP for African Bee attacks. Four pages, front and back.

Their high-rise fire SOP?

One.

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