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Written by Peter Sells
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Dec. 8, 2009
On Sunday I was doing Dad's Taxi duty, waiting in a North
York, Ont., shopping centre parking lot while my daughter attended one of her
lessons. I don't mind these duties a few times a week for piano, theatre, choir
or the track club. There is often a coffee shop or some other place with a WiFi
hotspot, or I can use the time to grab a burger, get some work done on the
computer or just read the newspaper. So I sat in my car with the weekend paper.
I saw a fire apparatus parked on the other side of the lot and noted that it was
parked out of the way of the lot's traffic flow.
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Written by Peter Sells
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Nov. 18, 2009
Something I thought was a bit bizarre was on the news this
week from south of the border. The
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is recommending against women in their 40s
having routine mammograms because false positives can lead to unnecessary
biopsies, while not improving the overall odds of survival. It seemed to be a
step backwards, but this apparently brings the American recommendations in line
with what the Canadian Cancer Society has been saying for some time, which is
that women in their 40s should speak to their doctors about individual breast
cancer risk and whether they should be screened.
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Flashpoint blog: September 2009 |
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Written by Peter Sells
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Sept. 23, 2009 - A few years ago in Indianapolis I had the honour of
being included in a panel discussion on reducing firefighter injuries and
fatalities on the fireground.
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Written by Peter Sells
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July 21, 2009,
I remember the booklet that used to sit in a box behind the captain and driver in every truck when I first came on the job. It was a set of procedures to be followed in the event of an actual or pending nuclear attack on the city. We used to joke about it periodically. One of the strategies recommended was to evacuate the apparatus and all related equipment out of the city to a specified parking lot of a shopping mall about 45 minutes north. That way the apparatus and crew would survive the blast and remain intact to respond back into the smoking ruin that used to be Toronto.
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Written by Peter Sells
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June 24, 2009
Last year in my column about emotional intelligence I wrote about how a firefighter, especially
in a command role, would benefit from the ability to manage emotions in an
inherently chaotic situation. The key point was that our objective is to bring
rationality to a chaotic situation, to be part of the solution by avoiding
becoming part of the problem. This past weekend I saw why it is so important
that we achieve that objective.
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