More info about the Washington DC subway fire incident http://www.statter911.com/2015/02/11/congress-heres-help-can-ask-right-questions-metro-safety-hearing/
You would think that a Chief Office of DCFD would have immediately asked for a box alarm when the initial dispatch went out for 1 Engine to a subway fire Note - they messed up 3 dispatches in a row - with extremely slow dispatch times - if they were trying to kill off a couple of hundred people, they could not have done a better job keywords - dispatcher malfeasance - dispatch screw up - dispatch screwup - lack of accountability - lack of discipline - lack of esprit de corps - lack of performance standards - lack of oversight - lack of human decency - uncaring bureaucracy - toxic bureaucrats - life in the big city - no one cares until 1,000 people die daily Underfunding? Who is going to claim that DCFD is underfunded? How much do you have to pay a dispatcher to insure that they send a full box alarm to a report of smoke or fire in a subway? How much do you have to pay DCFD Chiefs to listen to their radios? How much has the DCFD budget increased over the last 20 years? 200%? 1000%? 2000%? 5000%? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
