HONOLULU (KHON2) — As investigators look for answers into Monday night’s deadly fire, the Hawaii Firefighters Association President Bobby Lee explained the safety precautions firefighters take and how they prepare every time they answer a call.
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“There’s enough dangers and hazards in our profession to begin with, so anytime we have a tragic situation like this, we want to obviously learn from it, find out what happened and what went wrong, and make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Lee explained.
Their current training is already rigorous, as they have to consider and plan for the unknown.
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“We teach our firefighters the basics of firefighting,” Lee said. “But it’s also an issue of having to adapt when we get to the scene, because you don’t always know what’s going on.”
Preplanning is paramount, taking a number of key factors into account. They look at whether it’s daytime versus nighttime and if it’s a residential area or a warehouse.