Kittle, Cameron. "Camp Teaches girls firefighting." (2010): n. pag. Web. 21 Sep 2010.
USFA, . "Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2005." FA-306 (2006): pgs 7, 13. Web. 21 Sep 2010.
These are the three sources I used for my essay in lesson 4, which was about how firefighting can make someone more confident.
The first source I will evaluate for my essay is Youtube. Anyone can put anything on youtube, and the stuff that is on youtube does not necessarily have to be real. This right here might say it's a bad source, however, the thing with youtube is that you can get some people putting a lot of good stuff up, as well.
Do any kind of search for "working fires" and you will come across a plethora of first responders who have put up videos of incidents for review. There is also a lot of information on fire training, which is the video (one of several on youtube) I had used. Specifically to show how firefighters must train for claustrophobic situations that may arise.
The second source comes from the United States Fire Association, backed by the dept. Homeland Security itself. This is a solid, very legitimate source. The material was very well written and cleanly organized and there was no issue finding what I needed, which was, in this case, statistics for firefighter deaths for a given year (I was looking for something more recent. But I know the number hasn't changed a whole lot from 2005 to 2009, although the composition might have... either way I can't cite a verbal source, I mean, but I know when I was doing basic fire training the fire chief had showed us statistics on how around one-hundred firefighters die each year and their causes of death).
My third source comes from a news article about how a firefighting camp teaches girls between the ages of 14-18 about fire training. The director of the camp is also a lieutenant in the fire service. Her experience running the camp and her experience in the fire service should lend some credibility to herself.
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