How can we call ourselves a professional fire service when members won't even wear PPE?

A reader states: "We can’t even get our members to wear their PPE, SCBA or even seatbelts? I see pictures online of guys in jeans with coats wide open."

In this episode of "What's YOUR Problem?," Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder tackles this reader question: "How can we call ourselves a professional fire service if we can’t even get our members to wear their PPE, SCBA or even seatbelts? I see pictures online of guys in jeans with coats wide open – not at my department but other places."

Check out Goldfeder’s response.

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