Firefighter Training Podcast

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks with Author Mauro Porceli about his new book called Surviving the Firehouse. This book is a great read for the probie to the senior person on shift.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast offers some tips and solutions for growing as a leader.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses how apparatus placement on the incident scene affects a lot more than you would think.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast Looks at hazardous materials response from the various states of matter. This episode discusses that in addition to identification and zones and everything else that we have been taught the form of the material might be the biggest determination of how we respond. This episode is operational.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about national standards, a little bit about ISO and what to do if you cannot meet these standards even if you try. We also ponder the question can there really be a national standard for operations when fire departments are so diverse in size, geography and resources.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast answers the question Who Are Those People on your Fireground. By listening to this episode you have a bit of a mental preplan of who is going to show up on your scene. You wont have time to manage or process this while on scene, but thinking about it today might help. This episode is about fireground operations.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at these two very important and necessary terms and how they relate to you and your organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks with Retired Fire Chief Robert Warren of the Cranston RI Fire Department about fires and emergencies in prisons, jails, and courthouses. This is an operational episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast takes a humorous look at your organization structure and your actions as a leader and officer.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses the very important Topic of PTSD in firefighters. This interview with Captain Rick Stack might be a difficult on, but it is a must listen.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at three words used to change your attitudes and behaviors, can have an impact on your entire organization....and maybe even your life! The First time, the only time, and the last time.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at what is your fireground strategy, and more importantly what things would make you change it, and what do you do when you change it. This is an operational episode.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the phrase and also talks about competition, opponents, winners and losers. Some thing to generate thoughts in yourself and your organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses the word capability. We reference, people, procedures, and equipment and we talk about personal, company and organizational capability.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about operations at Vacant Buildings.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at instructional philosophy and asks the question are you using a script as an actor or a lesson plan as an instructor? The ask the chief segment is about the old vs. the young in a fire department organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks how street signs could apply to the fire service both tactically and from an administrative and leadership perspective. This episode is a light hearted look with a serious message.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast Revisits Garden Apartments in the series of looking at various occupancies. I also encourage you to look at the firefighringtoday.com webpage and scroll down to see a presentation with visuals including a hostile fire event photograph of fire spread in these types of occupancies. This episode is operational in content.

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