NFPA Journal - July/August 2020 - 14
Dispatches Wide Shot
CIVIL UNREST
NIGHTS OF
RAGE
As civil rights protests took
over US cities, fires and violence
burdened first responders
t's a narrative we've seen
play out many times before:
an African-American man or
woman dies at the hands of
police and protests sweep
the nation, sometimes
devolving into riots that become violent
and destructive. This time, it was the killing
of George Floyd-a 46-year-old black man
who died after a Minneapolis police officer
kneeled on his throat for nearly nine minutes-that sparked nationwide civil rights
protests in May and June.
While police officers may have been the
target of many of the protests that turned
violent, firefighters and EMS workers also
reported being attacked or simply having to
battle exhaustion-especially since the protests came on the heels of an active period of
the coronavirus pandemic.
In Minneapolis, pictured here, looting and
burning were widespread, taxing responders
across the city. In Cleveland, Charlotte, Rochester, New York, and other cities throughout
the United States, some demonstrators threw
rocks, glass bottles, and even fireworks at
firefighters responding to fires and medical
calls stemming from the protests, according
to Firehouse magazine. In Philadelphia, fire
officials said they were becoming overburdened by the fires that rioters were setting.
"On average, we have seven or eight what we
call working structure fires every 24 hours.
The past 24 hours, we had around 24, and the
past 48 hours we've had probably 50 or 60,"
Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel
told a local television news station.
NFPA President and CEO Jim Pauley
responded to the civil unrest in a statement
released June 4. "What happened to George
Floyd in Minneapolis is despicable, and we
are outraged," Pauley said. "Racism and
inequality in any form are unacceptable." But,
he continued, some of the violent and destructive riots that resulted from Floyd's death
were "also disturbing." -A.V.
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