Firefighter Training Podcast

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about emergencies at Day Care Centers, whether they be the licensed or unknown to your agency. The greater than normal life hazard will have an impact in your operations and resources required.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses the messages that you can send to the IC to make them take action to assist your efforts on the interior...(Or exterior for that matter.) The premise of this episode is to help you say things that will make the incident commander take action, rather than saying message received!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast offers a few Thanksgiving Messages and thoughts for Firefighters, Paramedics, EMTs, and Police Officers. Full Episode next week.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast offers up a little humor. What if a firefighters side job, collided with their firefighting assignment....let's say maybe a dispatcher? What could go wrong?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks some very difficult questions that will require and internal personal review to get the answers. Think about these and others and figure out if you have a valid, good answer. Also figure out what you can change within yourself so that you never have to answer them!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at how to make decisions, and what might be some options to acheive realistic fireground goals with the limitations of personnel and resources available in your department.  

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the Phrase "Time to get ready" from a response context, a preparation for duty context, and a preplan for life situations. Today is the day the you should take Time to Get Ready in all facets of the job, and in life!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast calls upon the expertise of Battalion Chief Eric Norberg of The West Warwick RI Fire Department, to review all things related to managing a carbon monoxide incident.

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast We interview a photojournalist who worked in the providence RI area and beyond. We get a perspective that we do not normally have. Bob is a true professional and has responded to hundreds if not thousands of fires and some major incidents such as 9/11, Sandy Hook. The station Nightclub, the Boston Bombing, just to name a few. Bob also created a promotional video for the providence fire department during "the old days" when fires were plentiful and he was shooting actual video tape. https://youtu.be/9EeUqTE1E0A

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks with Providence Firefighter Dan Rinaldi about some of the preliminary information available on Lithium Battery Fires. We offer suggestions, areas to gather more information, and ask that our friends from overseas give us some input on the topic. Take a listen!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses Defensive Fire Operations. There is an Ask The Chief Segment about purchasing new equipment.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast shares notable quotes for life and work in the fire and EMS services. None of these quotes are valuable unless you put them in practice!

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast looks at not only you being you but your department being what they are. The Fire Service is not one size fits all.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast Looks at the question, "What Are You Willing To Do?". We as firefighters are always ready to risk our lives, but what else are we willing to do? What are we not willing to do? What are we allowing to slack off? Will we allow and training ourselves to be more tolerant toward others. There is a lot to unpack if we really reflect on these questions! PS: The Podcast Has Returned!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about how to operate in a vacant building, preplanning a vacant building, why they are different and many more factors. We also talk about the OK transport issue and discipline in the Ask The Chief segment.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast Reviews a quote from Teddy Roosevelt and applies it to the fireground and into the firehouse. Make this an episode you take action with!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the relationship of your senses and possible actions you can take on the fireground.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast takes a prospective look on the New Year that is before us. What can we do to positively impact or job, our crew, our skill set, and support our families.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks back to December 22, 1999. This is a review of the NIOSH report on the Loss of 3 Firefighters and 3 Children.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast interviews retired Fire Captain Jack Boland of the Worcester Fire Department. Jack started as a young volunteer, has been a seasoned instructor and did a full career in the City of Worcester Massachusetts.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the member of your organization that quit and did not tell anybody. Was it you? Was it your officer or chief? What do you do about it?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks with Jon Metz and Jeremy Olsen about the book and some of the contents. Also they have provided a discount code until Christmas!

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we look at some notes and quotes that I thought could relate to the fire service (as well as life in general) Leave some feed back if it is worth doing again!

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we talk about High Rise Firefighting, standpipes, some tactics and SOPs that can be used in these situations.

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we discussed the personal discipline required to always be your best.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast takes a look at a Mr. Rogers quote and indicates how it might help us in our own lives, departments. You leave something behind in every interaction with others.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast reviews a case history that occurred 23 years ago on October 24, 1997. There are many lessons to be learned that can be applied to your department.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about Day Care Centers. I discuss how to locate, how to training their staff and what resources and command structure you need to deal with them. We also acknowledge and remember the anniversary of the 23rd street fire which took the lives of 12 FDNY firefighters.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at fire department actions that we can do after the fire is out but before we leave the scene. This episode is focused not only on helping the occupants but stuff we can be doing operationally.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about practical and consistent fire prevention messages for your department. These messages were first pointed out in a movie from the mid seventies called "Plan to Get Out Alive" sponsored by McDonalds and First Alert.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about large warehouse fire operations and gives and overview of the LODD of Battalion Chief John Tvedten of Kansas City Missouri in December of 1999.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast ask the question What (or who) gives you the right to behave like you are. These questions provide some insight into not only your behavior but if used correctly might even help your organization. We also have an Ask The Chief Segment about canceling apparatus on automated alarms.

This week The Firefighting Training Podcast discusses what impact Covid-19 mitigation efforts might have had on firefighting. We discuss attack procedures, flammable materials and the changes in human behavior including locked doors etc. Get out and take a look around this week.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks you to pay more attention to managing your fire streams, before and at the emergency. From the pump operator to the company officer and the IC don't take your stream delivery for granted.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast is about some operational tips for the IC in small and medium sized departments. The episode is good for all IC's regardless of what sized departments they serve.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast returns! The discussion and action item involves the question, What Did You Do Today?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at how to recover after a mistake. The episode also talks about the human-ness of the fire service and how learning to lead people is the key.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about gas emergencies and the pitfalls and properties of the gas. We discuss response, meters and tactics.   This episode is operational.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast encourages you to "Fix it" for whatever is going on at the fire scene or in the back room of the firehouse or fire hall.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast talks about command presence on and off the fireground.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast Interviews Mark Cotter from the Salisbury Maryland Fire Department and he expresses his views on the fire behavior and fire attack discussions taking place in the fire service today.

This week on TheFirefighter Training Podcast we answer the following question..." Is Our Best Trait Our Worst Trait?". Our best trait is our can do attitude, can it sometimes overtake us?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about Changing you mind.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the term "Listen First", and how that applies to the Fire Service Today.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the importance of decision making for the initial company officers and we also talk about decision making in the firehouse.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast is looking at the word reference (s) in the context of the fire service. This applies to training, incidents, dealing with people and instructing.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the question, "Are You Smarter Than Your Instructor?" When you arrive at an incident scene are you operating by SOP or by habit? When is this incident not like the last one?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the overuse and casual attitudes and behaviors that surround the word mentor.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast interviews Retired Chief Charles Werner and General Manager Forrest Wieder about an APP that will give you real time hazardous material and rail car contents across the US and Canada. If You have rail in your community or respond mutual aid to a community that has rail, than this APP is for you. http://askrail.us/

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses the three choices that all of us have as firefighters, both in our own lives and on the job whether career, volunteer or on call.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast Interviews Greg Howard who has experience as a career and an on-call firefighter in British Columbia.  I talk about the similarities and the differences between the US and Canada.