Volunteer Firefighters Are a Dying Breed…or Are They?
Volunteer firefighters are expected to train for hundreds of hours and perform the same tasks as their career counterparts in their spare time after working a full 40-hour [...]
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The Successful Short-Staffed Engine
In today’s fire service that is ruled by the almighty dollar, staffing reductions and lack of membership response have created a unique set of challenges. Regardless if [...]
Crew and Personal Mental Health Preparedness
Plan for you, so we can plan for them. Compartmentalization. It’s a big word, with huge meaning, bigger consequences and a humongous impact on our community. Now do me a [...]
Entitlement, Running People Off, & the Push for Higher Education
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 [...]
Be Smart About The Hype: Transitional Attack, SLICE-RS, and Our Blue Collar Roots
The coupling of transitional attack and SLICE-RS together is a complete fallacy that is bringing a poor light on a tactic that has legitimate value on the fireground. [...]
Success?
I was recently granted the opportunity to help instruct a forcible entry class for the new recruits at our fire academy. After a long eight hour day of teaching hands-on [...]
My Fire Service
My Brothers…. I try to give you something every shift I work. This week I’ve been thinking about MY fire service…. Yeah, it’s mine. I’ve given [...]
0846
At 0846 Tuesday September 11th, the United States took a hit on the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 0903 a second passenger airliner slammed into the south tower. [...]
Ready or Likely to Attack or Confront
Please note: This “Mutual Aid” profile has been created to request articles from other writers and authors in the fire service who are willing to share their [...]
Salvage?! But I’m Here To Save Lives!
Ok, so when I started writing with Station-Pride, I made it very clear that I wasn’t going to write any kind of operational, tactical, strategic article, ever. Because [...]
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