by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Jul 29, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
Let me start with a confession that may surprise some of you. I grew up on a party-line telephone, where you picked up the receiver and might hear the neighbors already talking. No cell phone. No computer. I watched every one of these technologies arrive, one at a...
by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Jul 22, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
By Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief & Paramedic | Behind The AlarmThe last one in the series. A note on the series. When I started this, seven parts looked like enough. It was not. Readers kept raising things that deserved their own treatment, and a subject this...
by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Jul 22, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
By Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief & Paramedic | Behind The AlarmShare this one — especially the first item.There is one action on this list that does almost nothing for your own house and a great deal for everyone else on your road. It costs nothing, it takes thirty...
by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Jul 22, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
Before the Order Comes | Part 6Home Hardening on a BudgetMost of what saves a house is free, takes a Saturday, and nobody ever tells you about it.By Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief & Paramedic | Behind The AlarmShare this one.Part 5 was about getting your family out....
by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Jul 21, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
BEHIND THE ALARMBy Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief & Paramedic | Behind The AlarmShare this one.This is the part of the series most families skip, and it is the part that decides whether everyone ends up in the same place. It costs nothing but an hour at the kitchen...
