Paul Rottenberg

Owner of FireStats, LLC., MBA, MPH. @stats_fire. Trying to make a difference in fire and EMS.

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

A very short discussion of the neuropsychological impacts of losing your home and stuff in a fire (or hurricane, tornado, etc...) It's a good reminder of what people go through, but also about psychological resilience and its preconditions. https://t.co/TYXfdpKa6z

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https://t.co/Cc0J7TMoG9

So Kidde plagiarized this -- took verbatim without quotation marks. But really, is one residential structure fire one disaster and one hurricane is one disaster?

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https://t.co/tifGfop2Dk.

WTF? Nothing like Fire Prevention Week and profit motive to create a perfect storm for nonsense reasoning. Thank Kidde for this:

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Nice of PG&E to provide six places left of the decimal for payment of my residential bill. Too bad they can't think that aspirationally about maybe not causing fires and killing people and maybe maintaining their pipelines. Thanks, CPUC!

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@CALFIRELNU Statistically that's likely random variation. Q: In how many Aprils and Mays did CalFire predict "bad fire season coming?" A: 10. In a true/false test if you guess "true" on every question and get 50% right does that mean you knew 50% of the answers?

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Wait. Maybe they meant that I spend three times more during peak times... but that wouldn't be true even after they went to tiered rates. :)

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

PG&E continuing to prove that they can't get simple visualizations right. I mean are peak rates really 3x what off-peak rates are? My bill says "no."

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

@CAL_FIRE This post has zero value. Great job, CDF!

[Lewis Broschard @CON1100]

So proud of all the hard work, commitment, and support from our members, @CityofPinole leadership and staff, @murphyforccc, our @CCCounty board of supervisors, CAO and staff, @CCCFirefighters, & @vnice916. Historic improvements for the public and our firefighters!

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

ChatGPT's first draft rap on the inherent deficiencies of percentiles in characterizing (certain fire service) data.

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United Airlines gets an F for visual representations. The spatial distance between the milestones are equal but the numerical distances are different at the last step. Intentionally misleading or just lazy? Plus they raised the terminal threshold :(

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

New FIreStats class added - Seattle Area in May.
Register now here: https://t.co/cfwPPxZBtf

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Seriously? They couldn't do better than "triggered?"

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

Data Analysis & Presentation Class for Fire and EMS.
A Class for Fire Service Personnel with Responsibilities in Deployment Analysis, Data Presentation, and Resource Planning.
Register here: https://t.co/cfwPPxZBtf

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https://t.co/3qLWbOtTwy
Great article here.

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@garyleff Non-story of the day...

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It's not exactly student loan forgiveness, but I'll take the $500.

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

@PGE4Me, @californiapuc
And how's that war on rooftop solar going? Make sure I have to run a gas generator when you cut power mid-day in the summer?

[Paul Rottenberg @paulrottenberg]

No fire, storm, car crash... Just PG&E (@PGE4Me) and CA PUC (@californiapuc) doing what they seem to do best: disrupting my business and then making me pay.