Fire ground photography

Do you think photos taken at the scene helps or hurts your departments critique?

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on January 31, 2009 at 7:34pm
They are absolutely useful as a training tool. It is the one dimentional firefighters who are "perfect" that fail to see fault in anything they did wrong to make the changes to improve what they did for next time.
Permalink Reply by Alan on January 31, 2009 at 7:50pm
Its a good tool for the company to use to see how the scene at went. Also, its a historical purpose behind it. We've been taking pictures for several years now from some of the emergencies we've been on.
Permalink Reply by Chief 29 on February 1, 2009 at 11:17am
Training tools are priceless and photography is one of those tools. the manner in which they are used and or displayed must be closely monitored though. I also agree with the reply from Alan. Pictures and or videos become a wonderful part of your companies history.
Permalink Reply by turk182 on February 1, 2009 at 11:26am
I think they can be very useful but you have to watch you do not get any pictures of victims in them because in the wrong hands they could get you in hot water.
Permalink Reply by Chuck Wright on February 1, 2009 at 11:55am
i believe it's useful as long as you don't get victims in the pitchers,you can look back to see what you could have done differnt
Permalink Reply by jim84 on February 1, 2009 at 5:19pm
I believe they are very much an important tool. We have a department photographer. We utilize the pictures in our critiquqes after every structure fire and we just started using them at m.v.a.
Permalink Reply by Teddy on February 1, 2009 at 6:23pm
Agreed
Permalink Reply by derek on February 1, 2009 at 10:50pm
AS AN INSTRUCTOR FOR THE DEPART. I WORK FOR THE LAW SAYS IN TENNESSEE ,IF YOU TAKE A PHOTO OF A WORKING FIRE OR TRAINING ,YOU HAVE A HAVE EVERYONE IN THE PICTURE SIGN A RELEASE TO BE A ABLE TO USE THE PHOTS TO SHOW TO ANYONE,THEREFORE I DONT TAKE PICTURES
Permalink Reply by R Griffin on February 2, 2009 at 12:46pm
So does that law go for the press? We try to discuss any issues during critique about how far to let the pics out plus this gives you a chance to see if the same person is showing up on all calls . I agree pics shouldn't be out if someone lost a life but if a law wants a release form for the fire dept then it should stand with the media also. They shoot the same pics that we do...
Permalink Reply by John on February 2, 2009 at 12:52pm
Helps when appropriate, I had a brother want to take pics of some calls that would not be. But as for fire scene pics I think they can be a big help.
Permalink Reply by Teddy on February 2, 2009 at 2:43pm
Where I am, any picture that is in the public eye i.e. something that anybody could have walked up and scene is ok to share, but if there is something that is not, you need a release or to blur the faces
Permalink Reply by Kimberly A Bownas on February 2, 2009 at 3:31pm
Nothing wrong with it, it will help with making the next call run better as far as operations. It also is a part of a department's history. We just had our 100th anniversary and we were looking for pictures of fires that happened in the past as well as other pictures from our history. You can learn a lot from pictures...

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