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Elite Investigative Journal
What The Fire Service Can Teach Us About The Use of Force, pg 42-47
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What The Fire Service Can

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That title probably has professions as well. A few where force should not be R

you all confused, thinking years ago I started hearing deployed. U
the fire department doesn’t this as protecting life be- T

use force. The reality is fore property. The first element is going A
they do. Ever hear of forc- to be the aggressor or ac- L
ible entry? That is not For years the fire service tor in the triangle. Without I

what I am writing about talked about the fire tri- someone doing something, T
however. It is more the angle (now tetrahedron) we don’t even have an Y

concept of using force which was a visual way of incident, let alone a use of
than the actual use of illustrating the elements force incident. This has to
force itself. That is where that needed to come to- be first element because of

the fire service comes in. gether for a fire to occur. two factors. First, we have
In describing the use the The triangle consisted of to recognize who started

force for private security heat, fuel and oxygen. the incident. We can’t af-
and public safety, a corre- Take any one of these ford to blame ourselves
lation can easily be made elements away and a fire because we had to use

so there is a better un- could not exist. What if force.
derstanding. We have all we think of a use of force

heard the line “protecting incident in the same way. The second element is
life and property” which is We see that conditions a victim. This can get a
a common phrase among must be met for a use of little tricky because the

the fire services and ex- force incident to occur. If victim can be one of three
tends to other public safe- they do not we are proba- people. It can be us by us-

ty and emergency services bly getting into a situation ing force in self defense. It

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