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It was May 2017, and I had just promoted to an officer’s position. I stepped out back behind Station 2 to enjoy the late-spring weather when a city police officer pulled up [...]
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BlogVolunteer Fire Chief or Community Organizer?
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BlogPrivate Fire Service, Reporting for Duty!
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Health and WellnessFireStrong.org
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BlogPride, Pride Everywhere
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BlogMy 15 Fire Department New Year’s Resolutions
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BlogRebuttal – Fire Science vs. Reality
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BlogRevolutionize your Volunteer Fire Training
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BlogPrideful Mothers Day
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BlogThe Power of Team Building – Inches Away
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BlogPeshtigo, Wisconson. What Do You Know?
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BlogAs the Kitchen Turns
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BlogStation Pride and Brothers Helping Brothers Partnership
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BlogWho Do You Want To Be?
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BlogFire Gear Laboratory Test Results
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Health and Wellness3 Reasons Why it’s OK to have Dark Humor
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PodcastsEp007: Dan DeGryse – Mental Health Fitness for Duty
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BlogThe NFPA Police
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Blog10 Deadly Sins for Fireground Failures – Part I
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HistoryThe Hartford Circus Fire 6 July 1944
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BlogPride, Where does it come from?
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BlogAs The Kitchen Turns-Part 2
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BlogThe Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fire Service Fitness
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BlogThe Fire Service 1%
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Blog#Beastmode
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Health and WellnessFirefighter Resiliency
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BlogRunning People Off
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BlogFirefighting Is Fun
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BlogThe Dash
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BlogNotre Dame University Pushes the Modern Fire Service to be Better.
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BlogPart 3: Higher Education
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Health and WellnessCrisis Intervention
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BlogStickers
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BlogMeat Heads
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Health and WellnessUnderstanding Fire Service Suicide, the Key to Prevention.
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BlogAre Volunteer Firefighters at Greater Risk of PTSD?
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Health and WellnessSleep Deprivation
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Health and Wellness
FireStrong.org
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Health and WellnessDo Firefighters Even Sleep?
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BlogUnused Fire Gear PFAS Test Results Are “Thousands of Times Higher” than EPA Drinking Water Standards
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Health and WellnessChappy’s Weight Loss Solution Part 3
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PodcastsEp011: Dr. Tania Glenn – Treating First Responders with PTSD and More
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PodcastsEp004: CHECKPOINT ONE – Move Past Trauma
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PodcastsEp006: Leckey Harrison – Raise Your Resilience
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PodcastsEp008: Dan Willis – Create a Bulletproof Spirit
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PodcastsRescue the Rescuer Show Episode 17 Ben Vernon
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PodcastsEp010: Jeff Dill – Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance
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PodcastsEp001: Stephen Kavalkovich – The Rescuer Who Needed The Rescue
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PodcastsEp000: Stephen Kavalkovich – We Heal Through Connection and Connect Through Struggle
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Podcasts
Ep005: Robert Avsec – Fire EMS Leader Pro
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PodcastsThe Rescue the Rescuer Show Episode 24- Fire and EMS Casualties of War
Latest Articles
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In a recent commercial aired at half-time during last Saturday’s Notre Dame Football game; The University of Notre Dame puts the Fire Service on notice that they’ve been studying our fire gear and something is amiss. See here. and below. We’ve reported fairly-widely on this topic, and we even broke this story almost 3 years ago (here) when Diane Cotter, [...] -
Firefighting is perhaps one of the oldest and most well-established institutions in what is now the United States of America. The roots of the North American firefighter can be traced back over a century before the country was even formally established. The earliest days of the American fire service were an organized community effort born of necessity. Throughout the [...] -
It was May 2017, and I had just promoted to an officer’s position. I stepped out back behind Station 2 to enjoy the late-spring weather when a city police officer pulled up to chat. “Congrats on the promotion!” He said. “Welcome to fire-service middle management!” The officer departed as quickly as he had arrived and left me standing there, wondering if he was [...]
