Think Again- Day 5

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اگر مهمان یا اسپانسری جا افتاده، از فهرست موجود انتخاب کن یا نام تازه‌ای پیشنهاد بده. پیشنهادها بعد از بررسی مدیر عمومی می‌شوند.

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Moments earlier at Mann Gulch, the smokejumpers missed another opportunity to think again—and that one was right at their fingertips. Just before Dodge started tossing matches into the grass, he ordered his crew to drop their heavy equipment. They had spent the past eight minutes racing uphill while still carrying axes, saws, shovels, and 20-pound packs. If you’re running for your life, it might seem obvious that your first move would be to drop anything that might slow you down. For firefighters, though, tools are essential to doing their jobs. Carrying and taking care of equipment is deeply ingrained in their training and experience. It wasn’t until Dodge gave his order that most of the smokejumpers set down their tools—and even then, one firefighter hung on to his shovel until a colleague took it out of his hands. If the crew had abandoned their tools sooner, would it have been enough to save them? We’ll never know for certain, but Mann Gulch wasn’t an isolated incident. Between 1990 and 1995 alone, a total of twenty-three wildland firefighters perished trying to outrace fires uphill even though dropping their heavy equipment could have made the difference between life and death. In 1994, on Storm King Mountain in Colorado, high winds caused a fire to explode across a gulch. Running uphill on rocky ground with safety in view just 200 feet away, fourteen smokejumpers and wildland firefighters—four women, ten men—lost their lives. Later, investigators calculated that without their tools and backpacks, the crew could have moved 15 to 20 percent faster. “Most would have lived had they simply dropped their gear and run for safety,” one expert wrote. Had they “dropped their packs and tools,” the U.S. Forest Service concurred, “the firefighters would have reached the top of the ridge before the fire.” It’s reasonable to assume that at first the crew might have been running on autopilot, not even aware that they were still carrying their packs and tools. “About three hundred yards up the hill,” one of the Colorado survivors testified, “I then realized I still had my saw over my shoulder!” Even after making the wise decision to ditch the 25-pound chainsaw, he wasted valuable time: “I irrationally started looking for a place to put it down where it wouldn’t get burned. . . . I remember thinking, ‘I can’t believe I’m putting down my saw.’” One of the victims was found wearing his backpack, still clutching the handle of his chainsaw. Why would so many firefighters cling to a set of tools even though letting go might save their lives? 📱 کانال خلاصه کتاب (https://t.me/luminous_bookclub)📱 کانال موزیک (https://t.me/luminous_music) 📱 کانال مکالمات روزمره (https://t.me/foroughpapi) 📱 پیج اینستاگرام: Luminous__english Castbox channel: luminous english 📚هایلایت قسمت 05 کتاب Think Again (قسمت پنجمِ مقدمه) ✅ miss: از دست دادن ✅ opportunity : فرصت ✅ fingertips : نوک انگشتان ✅ tossing : پرت کردن ✅ grass: چمن ✅ crew: خدمه ✅ drop: انداختن ✅ heavy equipment : تجهیزات سنگین ✅ racing : با سرعت رفتن ✅ uphill : بالای تپه ✅ axes: تبرها ✅ saws: اره ها ✅ shovel : بیل ✅ obvious : واضح ✅ essential : ضروری ✅ ingrained : نهادینه ✅ experience : تجربه ✅ hung on: گذشته فعل hang on چسبیدن ✅ abandon: رها کردن ✅ sooner : زودتر ✅ isolated : تنها ✅ incident : حادثه ✅ perish: تلف شدن ✅ outrace : فرار کردن ✅ safety : امنیت ✅ investigator: بازجو، مامور تحقیق ✅ calculate : محاسبه کردن ✅ backpack : کوله پشتی ✅ expert : متخصص ✅ concur: موافقت کردن ✅ assume : فرض کردن ✅ survivors : بازمانده ها ✅ testify: شهادت دادن ✅ ditch: پیچاندن ✅ chainsaw : اره برقی ✅ valuable : ارزشمند ✅ irrationally : بطور غیر منطقی ✅ clutching : محکم چسبیدن ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

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