Firefighter Training Podcast

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.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the phrase I Didn't See That Coming and how it relates to activities on the job, incidents, in station activities and relationships.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the question are you ready for the "Big One?" In each fire station everyone says tonight could be the night.  If It is tonight will you be ready and how to you get ready?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses does your personality match your behavior in all of the roles in life that you have. If we took the names off some resumes would we know you by your actions.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast is talking with Rob Fling (Past Chief of the Dix Hills Fire Department on Long Island) about the importance of having your facepiece on at all incidents. This is designed to be a thought provoking episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the relationship and meaning of these three terms, and how they relate to you and your organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses what are the options to simultaneous coordinated fire attack? What can I do with the resources I have?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast interviews Retired Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Burns from Framingham Massachusetts.Kevin is relaying a talk he gave to some school students and how there are numerous applications for the fire service.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses comparisons and standards. The advice is, compare yourself to yourself!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about all things related to mutual aid, automatic aid, mass casualty and how to properly set up for these operations ahead of time. This episode is operational.