YouTube

From a fire service perspective YouTube is both blessing and a curse. First for all of us out there you love to watch others put out fires or respond to fires jsut search for fire and see what comes up.

Here are a few recent examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUes1gfv4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_14oj9rtVk

It also gives us an opportunity to show how dumb we can be. Previous to the Internet and YouTube myself and others had done similar stupid stunts. Now these can be shared with the whole world. Not a good things for Fire Departments that are already strapped for money and unable to get support from their municipalities.

Here two examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEEmCc-xwJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KAArCWmQSY