HONOLULU FIREFIGHTERS ARE
HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE.
ALWAYS INVESTIGATING HAS BEEN
WEEK.
LAST MONTH.
WE ASKED FOR FIREFIGHTER INJURY
NUMBERS AND ASKED IF THE RECENT
GINA MANGIERI IS ALWAYS
WE HAVE REVIEWED SPANNING MORE
THAN
about the helicopter fall caught
on video, and
about what's being done to keep
firefighters safer
after both that and an ocean
training death this
summer.
that may not be realistic 19:02
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the chief pointed to HFD
standards he says meet
or exceed fire service
requirements, and that
they've been ramping up training
continually to earn
and maintain a national
accreditation only a
couple hundred other
firefighting agencies have
accreditation work
that you're doing, all of this
training work that
you'r doing, is it panning out
on the front lines, with
fewer injuries, more or about
the same?
01;18;52;40 We're averaging
about the
same, there's no spike in
injuries 18:54
but we pressed for specific
numbers year by
year, not just averages, and
here is what we we
found.
The number of injuries reported
has more than
doubled since 2011, from 143 to
more than 300 last
year, and pacing even higher for
this year so far.
The chief says its due to their
volume of work and
reporting rules.
CHIEF 01;12;32;59 even though if
you have a slight
twinge in your arm and it may
result in nothing, we
the increase. They say RIT or
Rapid intervention
training sessions caused many
sprains and strains,
and one course -- crawling
through an every
narrower tube to simulate
confined-space rescues --
gave one non-rescue worker
claustrophobia.
LEE 01;05;01;51 for our
firefighters that are drivers
or captains that normally don't
experience that level
of physical exertion because of
the type of job
they have now, those were the
ones that really
going up and it's getting worse
in regard to the
national average, it's going
well above the
national average 1:20
we looked into the national rate
and
according to the US Department
of labor,
public-sector fire protection
injuries happen
at an average rate of 12 per 100
firefighters.
Honolulu's rate stood at 23 per
100 for the last full
them result in NO
LOST TIME, it's just a
precautionary form that
someone filed 13:1
we also looked at how many
injuries put workers
off the job to get well --
honolulu tracks below the
national average RATE for
lost-time work injuries.
similar, every injury is an
opportunity for something
much worse 49, so we look at the
actual injuries
something happens -- in
the field or in training --
post-action briefings are
done immediately to look for
corrective steps going
forward.
CHIEF 01;00;28;10 the HFD places
public and its
personnel safety at the highest
of priorities and
LESSONS THEY'VE LEARNED TO CUT
BETTER
PHYSICAL FITNESS -- TRAIN FOR
THE
HAVING INSTRUCTORS BE CONSISTENT
IN THEIR
SAFETY BRIEFING INSTRUCTIONS,