S6 E26 The Truth About American Fire Culture with Guest Dr. Burton Clark
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Dr. Burton Clark discusses the cultural factors contributing to high fire death rates in the U.S.
The United States has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world. Not because the firefighters aren't good enough. Not because the apparatus isn't fast enough. Because of culture. Dr. Burton Clark has been saying that since 1970. He became a volunteer firefighter that year, a career firefighter two years later, and spent the next fifty-five years working at every level of the fire service — from neighborhood firehouses to the National Fire Academy to the halls of Johns Ho...
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