{"id":6592,"date":"2011-10-25T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2011-10-25T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:49:14","slug":"hazelwood-firefighters-among-the-1st-in-region-to-commitment-to-wearing-seat-belts-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"Hazelwood Firefighters among the 1st in Region To Commitment to Wearing Seat Belts On-Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0The Hazelwood Fire Department has taken the lead by being among the first in St. Louis County to have all its firefighters pledge to wear seat belts when they drive or ride on fire apparatus.\u00a0 This declaration for firefighter safety is being spearheaded by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, through the \u201cEveryone Goes Home\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Retired Fire Chief Steve Arnold is a Missouri Advocate for the \u201cEveryone Goes Home Program\u201d and a Fire Service Safety Instructor.\u00a0 \u201cApparatus and vehicle accidents are the second leading cause of firefighter line of duty deaths,\u201d says Arnold. \u201cMany of those deaths can be attributed to the lack of wearing seat belts by fire service personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This seat belt pledge is the latest tool to raise awareness among firefighters everywhere about the importance of buckling up before they leave the station on an emergency 911 call.\u00a0 Fire departments across the country are taking the pledge, but none until now in St. Louis County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promotion of seat belt use is being woven into the fabric of our day-to-day logistics,\u201d says Hazelwood Fire Department spokesperson, Randy Getz.\u00a0 \u201cOur newest truck sounds an alarm in the cab when the parking brake is released and not all of the seat belts are buckled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on older fire trucks without this technology, there is plenty of data to suggest that firefighters \u2013 like automobile drivers and passengers everywhere \u2013 are not fully on board with this safety practice.<\/p>\n<p>Recent news headlines such as \u201cMichigan Firefighter Ejected in Tanker Rollover,\u201d \u201cTexas Firefighter Ejected in Fire Truck Crash,\u201d \u201cBaltimore Firefighter Injured in Fall from Truck,\u201d and \u201cHillsborough County, FL, Paramedic Killed, Not Wearing Seat Belt\u201d give some validity to this claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters are just a microcosm of seat belt use in general everywhere, by everyone,\u201d says Getz. \u201cThe latest Missouri numbers tell us that 69 percent of all vehicle occupants killed in crashes over the past five years were not wearing seat belts.\u00a0 Of teenagers, ages 15 to 19, killed in crashes, 76 percent were not wearing seat belts.\u00a0 How can our society allow this kind of behavior to continue?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEveryone Goes Home Program,\u201d started by the National Fallen 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