Writing inccident reports for your own F.D. alarms.....

[Guest]

What are anyone's thoughts on this? I might imply that it some how seems wrong. Not to comment about the job after the fact, but to record the initial inccident. I'm sure that I'm opening a can of worms with this and I'm not trying to insult, I just would like to hear feed back about it.

[x242Steve 1]

Who better to report on an incident than someone who was actually there?

These are not opinion pieces, and I for one try to keep commentary to a minimum, if not zero.

Its great when someone is tuned in to a scanner, but quite frankly I get tired of reading posts like this:

1200: City of Anywhere dispatched to Reported Structure Fire

1202: Everyone is en route

1205: Chief reports working fire

1400: All units 10-8.

Especially with the onset of fireground radios that most people without a ridiculously expensive scanner cannot monitor, its a lot more interesting to read about what actually went on at the scene, rather than what someone heard while sitting in their bedroom.

[firemn23 8]

I must say that is why there is the incident workshop. For the most part Truck4 or any of the other guys do a great job of posting the incidents as they are happening for everyone else to read.

[PVFD113 6]

the real pain is once it is posted only moderators can change or add to it i believe--If I was at a call and have additional or corrected info--I cannot change it I have to start another thread. Like now--there are 2 postings for the chopper down-

[x242Steve 1]

Whoever makes the original IA post can edit it, which is why there is the IW.

In a perfect world, people who post an IA would monitor the IW for corrections and updates...

[E64PCFD2044 1]

Some departments have different companies. If your company isn't called to the alarm or not on stand-by, maybe a member of that 'not called' company would write the IA.