Fire trade media is written and read to educate the fire service about strategy and tactics. They also spend considerable space focusing on firefighter safety, but again in the context of firehouse and fireground operations. Many reflect upon or review the facts and circumstances of firefighter injuries or deaths, but these reflections are primarily operational in focus.
Few if any articles have focused on the situation of a line-of-duty injury or death from the perspective provided below. There is no discussion of response safety, no tactical analysis or descriptions of apparatus. And there are no great pictures of walls of flames or heroic actions to go with the text, making this among the rarest of submissions. This article, however, is all about survival: making it through when a serious line-of-duty injury occurs with long-term repercussions.