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February 11, 2021 in Blog // Harvard University Discovers Fire Station Dust Loaded with PFAS in Published Study
January 22, 2020 in Blog // Officers…Ask These Questions at a Hazardous Material Incident
October 21, 2019 in Blog // Notre Dame University Pushes the Modern Fire Service to be Better.
July 2, 2019 in Blog // Volunteer Servitude & The Enslavement of the Modern Fire Service
June 24, 2019 in Blog // Welcome to Fire Service Middle Management
March 17, 2019 in Blog // Beard Bros
February 24, 2019 in Blog // What We’re Born To Do: Lessons From the African Fire Service
December 6, 2018 in Blog // Unused Fire Gear PFAS Test Results Are “Thousands of Times Higher” than EPA Drinking Water Standards
October 20, 2018 in Blog // Volunteer Fire Chief or Community Organizer?
September 25, 2018 in Blog // NBC Boston Investigates Fire Gear PFOA and Cancer

Articles by Brad Phillips

About Brad Phillips (8 Articles)

Brad brings over 20 years of fire service experience to the table with a career that started in 1991 as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. Brad has held many positions throughout the years from street level firefighter to Fire Chief. Brad has worked as a volunteer, part-time and full-time firefighter and has worked in various departments from EMS only to combination and full-time. Brad currently works as a firefighter/paramedic for both the City of Trotwood Ohio and Harrison Township Ohio Fire Departments. Brad is also a paramedic for the Union Township Ohio Life Squad.

24 Reasons To Leave Or Stay

March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

The alarm pierces through the good time you and Scarlett Johansson are having in your dream, telling you it’s time to get up and shower. Your alarm is the house-tones from [...]

Part 3: Higher Education

December 11, 2016 // 2 Comments

Part 1: “Entitlement” Part 2: “Running People Off” The US is an industrialized nation. We have modeled everything after the assembly line or mass [...]

Running People Off

October 10, 2016 // 6 Comments

This is the second part to our Three Part Series Titled: “Entitlement, Running People Off, & the Push for Higher Education.” If you missed it…Check out [...]

What Do You Think We Are Doing?

September 16, 2016 // 1 Comment

Let’s talk about EMS for a minute… There are industry-level publications, internet sites independent from the magazines and countless bloggers out there [...]

Entitlement, Running People Off, & the Push for Higher Education

September 2, 2016 // 4 Comments

In this 3-part-series we will be discussing, or more realistically, I will be ranting about the above topics. You will read this and at the end, you may or may not feel [...]

Get Over Yourselves!

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

As most of you have probably heard, there is growing evidence that the death of a Virginia female firefighter may be the result, in part, of bullying by fellow [...]

Hey, What’s it like to be a Paramedic?

June 22, 2016 // 2 Comments

I am sure that most of you have heard that question 1 or 200 times throughout your career. It is a topic of interest to the people around you and at the holiday parties that [...]

What Percent are You?

May 8, 2016 // 4 Comments

Note: The bulk of this post deals with fire department EMS, so if you are not in a department that does fire department EMS, you may find it uninformative. Those of you that [...]

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