NFPA 1851 can be overwhelming with knowledge about a pretty boring topic…laundry, but how you wash your bunker gear matters! Cleaning you bunker gear is very different than doing your home laundry. The reason being is that bunker gear is made up of many different man-made fabrics that are responsible for protecting you in a […]
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Firefighter Crisis in America – The Volunteer
In the rare occasion that you didn’t know, among the many things Benjamin Franklin accomplished in his life, he established the first Volunteer Fire Company in Philadelphia. Franklin and four friends founded the Union Fire Company on December 7, 1736. There were 26 members of this first brigade. Each member agreed to bring six leather […]
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The Fire Asylum Movie
The Fire Asylum Movie Many of you may have recalled an article I wrote earlier last year about the Fire Asylum training. Well some great news has occurred this week, The Fire Asylum Movie was released on Amazon. If you really want to understand more about this unique training, you really should watch the movie! […]
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Residential Fire Sprinklers
In January of this year, a family of six died in a fire in a relatively new home (built in 2005). Investigation showed it was electrical in nature and a dry Christmas tree contributed to the fast building and spreading fire. All six were determined to have died from smoke inhalation. There were smoke alarms […]
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Important Qualities for Fire Service Leadership – Part 5
To summarize so far – As part of the National Fire Academy (NFA) Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP), the student is required to author an Applied Research Project (ARP) within six months of completing each of the four classes. For the executive Leadership class ARP, I sent a survey to 50 metropolitan departments including my […]
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Beating the odds…a tale of one department
Beating the odds…a tale of one department I often see many departments using recruiting tools like this one. Volunteer firefighting seems like it’s a dying breed and will be going the way of the dodo bird, or will it? I recently traveled to Staunton, Virginia to pick up some donated equipment and had the pleasure […]
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Firefighting & Social Media
Firefighters & Social Media I have recently read several questions from several different social media sites, and have read 1000s of comments, with this as the question, ” what do you think about firefighters taken selfies at fires and then getting dismissed from the department?” I’m going to leave you with the following statements and […]
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