This week The Firefighter Training Podcast Discusses whether a mistake was made, or was there a conscious or subconscious decision to make an alternative choice.

This episode talks about fireground decisions but can also be easily adapted to leadership and in station activity as well.

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast B/C John Cagno (Ret.) and I discuss five leadership books and how they can apply or relate to the fire service.

• The Leadership Challenge – James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• Leading At The Edge – Dennis Perkins
• Developing The Leader Within You – John Maxwell
• 360 degrees of Influence – Harrison Monarth
• Commanding Excellence – Gary Morton

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast takes stock of US and creates a personal reflective inventory.

This is a shortened episode designed to take a look at what we contribute to the team, and what belonging to the team means to us.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at occupancies once again and talks about large renovated or retrofitted facilities that may have been manufacturing at one point and are now storage and or something else. The sheer size and square footage can easily overwhelm many department’s resources.

This is an operational episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about command teams. Specifically how to properly staff the command function at an incident. Chief Woolery is from San Diego gives his perspective and we also talk about how this could work in smaller departments and systems.

This episode is operational.

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we discuss preplanning and operations at strip mall fires. We discuss many of the things to be considered.

This episode is operational.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast has a discussion about Church Fires. Why are they different? What should you know and train for?

This episode is operational and also discusses preplanning and training activities for these fires.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast ask the question, what could happen, and we discuss some common and some not so common things that can occur on your fire scene or on your way to the fire scene.

This is primarily an operational episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the weather, historical fires, and how the weather not only affects fire behavior, and fireground operations but our personnel as well.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the differences in training, resources, tactics, and Incident Action Plans from a small fire to a big fire.

This episode is operational in content.