Thoughtful Leadership- Professional Development
Building the future fire officer and re-enforcing the capabilities of current ones. Professional development in any career field is an important process for the stability and [...]
Firefighter
Get a Life! (outside of work)
Beer? Check. Meat? Check. Super Secret Squirrel BBQ rub? Check. Smoker? Check. Pager and/or radio? That’s a negative, Ghostrider. I am about to hit the road for two days of [...]
Revolutionize your Volunteer Fire Training
The effectiveness of any first response organization hinges on the efficiency of its training. Without training, we fail to properly and safely execute our mission of [...]
What Do You Think?
When I was first promoted to the officer ranks, I inherited a much older crew (in both age and tenure). The jubilation of the promotion coupled with the sobering reality that [...]
Harnessing the Power of your Community
Building a community network to support your volunteer fire department. For the career fire employees out there, it’s likely your fire department provides some level [...]
FireFit!
What makes us fit for duty? Training. What training are we referring to? Tasks used to perform our job. Whether it be a technical rescue, hazmat knowledge, ARFF, district [...]
Junior Involvement in Senior Training
I know of a few departments around me who don’t let their juniors do anything, and by anything I mean throwing ladders, stretching lines, hitting a hydrant…You [...]
Her First Day (Mother’s Day)
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, so it only seems fitting that I should write about women in today’s fire service. I don’t know about you, but I [...]
OWN THAT SH!T
You know, the small boy in my heart has always wanted to be a fireman, and I’ve always been a little envious of the guys that get to wear the big names on their coats [...]
On Scene Arms Race
I sit here at my desk, facing the street, typing furiously on my wife’s laptop because mine doesn’t have Microsoft Word. It is 2017. We have Drones. We have Cell phones [...]
