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!
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Firefighter Training Podcast – Difficult Questions
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!
Firefighter Training Podcast – Doing More With Less
This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at how to make decisions, and what might be some options to achieve realistic fireground goals with the limitations of personnel and resources available in your department.
Firefighter Training Podcast -Carbon Monoxide Incidents Part II
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.
Firefighter Training Podcast – An Interview with Photo Journalist Bob Farrell
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.
Firefighter Training Podcast – Lithium Battery Fires Interview with Providence RI Firefighter Dan Rinaldi
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!
Chief Chat – Legal Issues
This week on Chief Chat we talk about legal issues.
Chief Chat – The Probationary Member
This week on Chief Chat we talk about the probationary member.
Actions and Motives
This one is a fire service lesson for sure but I hope it makes you think of life lessons as well. It is about actions and motives and or intention. We do many things at fires, in the firehouse and in life. Today I am asking the probing question….why?
Lets look at a bunch of examples. You are on social media and you are vehemently expressing your beliefs and theories of the “only way to fight fires”. WHY? Do you want to educate? Do you want to impress someone about your level of education and experience? Is it your intent to demean them and their experience and show your superiority?
These are all different reasons for abusive social media stuff, but what is your motive? Do you think about the why, and do you think about what your perception is to others?
You arrive on the scene of a house fire, it is marginal, everyone is out. You jump off the engine and enter the structure. Did you do that because you were following your training? Did you do that so your crew and officer don’t think you are a coward?’ Do you do it because you think you are smarter than the facts presented and there might be someone in there? Or you just think it is the right thing to do?
There is a bad community climate in your city or town. You start your own personal work slowdown. You arrive on the bell, you don’t do house duties, you barely do truck checks and you are in a consistent foul mood. Why? Because someone else is in charge of your happiness and you are OK with that? Because you think if you don’t do you job and you punish your co-workers you will affect the citizens and make them change their mind? Because you have forgotten that you work in the greatest most noble profession in the world?
See your challenge this week is this….When you do something, silently ask the question, “Why did I do that or why did this just happen?” For real , don’t white wash this look hard and look deeply.
You will feel better, you will perform better, and you will be a better team member, if you just reflect upon your actions, motives, and intentions.
Chief Chat – Empathy
This week on Chief Chat we talk about having empathy.