Despite the fact that I wrote this piece for Fire-Rescue Magazine last year, I'm pretty sure its content is still relevant as we ponder recent and not so recent events on the eve of Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/topics/usfa-reminds-you-that....

As I stated in comments to another blog by John Mitchell (www.firedaily.com) titled: "The Charleston 43" (http://www.firefighternation.com/profiles/blogs/the-charleston-43) --- if we don't make these incidents personal to us, incidents like these have the unique ability to quickly become personal for us.

Thus, I present for your review, a re-post of "Make It Personal" http://tigerschmittendorf.com/2009/09/07/make-it-personal/

Let me know what you think of the piece and how you plan to make Safety Week 2010 personal for you.