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I had 30 years on the line, and was a member in volunteer, part-time, and career departments, and have been truly blessed and honored to have instructed with, and learned from, the best Firefighters our business has to offer. I have found the true essence of the Firefighter demonstrated in members from the biggest cities to the smallest rural departments.
In all of this I have also found varying levels of committment and dedication. I've heard "don't bother me with that fire crap" to "Hey, what are we going to do for drill on Sunday?" It's not your check, it's your heart. Don't take anyone's word for it... find out yourself and never let >"cause we've always done it that way" be an answer to any of your questions about what or how to do it.

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Department:: Huber Heights OH (Retired)

Title/rank:: Lieutenant, Retired

Years of public service:: 30

Agency structure:: Paid fire department

Top issues in your department:: Staffing, Training, Motivation

Professional Qualifications:: Ohio FFII
State of Ohio Fire Instructor
Paramedic
Rescue Systems 1
Haz Mat Tech
B.E.R.T.

Topics you provide training for:: Truck Co. Operations
Forcible Entry
Portable Laddering
Rapid Intervention
Deployment of Initial Handline
1st Arriving Company Officer
Vehicle Extrication

Areas of expertise:: Truck Co. Operations
FF Rescue
Forcible Entry
1st Arriving Officer
Thermal Imaging

Bio:: 30 years Metro Dayton, OH. Vol, Comb, and Career Depts
Huber Hts OH Fire Division 26 years
Sinclair Comm Col (Dayton OH) Fire Academy 1993-2003
FDIC Instructor; Forcible Entry 1996-2002;
Instructing Live Fire-Fixed Facility 2006
Firehouse Expo, World Instructor, Eng/Trk 1997-Present
Basic Emer Rescue Tech (Tech Rescue: High Angle, Collapse, Top Water, etc)
Member: Miami Valley OH FOOLs (1st President)
New England FOOLs
Central Mass FOOLs

Dave Gallagher's Blog

More GAME PLAN

If you played organized sports, you were assigned a position, and, a task with that position. If you didn't do it, you sat and the coach found someone that would. Why are more departments not creating riding assignments? It can be done from the largest to the smallest department. It creates accountibility, reduces duplication of effort, and gets the job done.

Posted on January 16, 2009 at 1:19pm — 10 Comments

The Game Plan

Does your department have a good foundation for its SOG/SOP's do they make sense? Do they build from simple to complex? Does the first alarm have pre-determinded assignments? What is your staffing like? Does the SOG properly address the fireground basics ? lets talk about these questions what can we do to fix or change broken SOG's or create ones where none have existed.

Posted on January 16, 2009 at 10:33am

A thought....

A Firefighter with no tools in his hand is a well dressed spectator.....

Posted on January 16, 2009 at 9:43am — 1 Comment

G********!

If you're checking this out, I hope this finds you well and ready for a great new year! I have the great honor of knowing some of the contributors here and I look forward to interacting with this community.

Train Real, Train Hard, Be Safe,
Dave

Posted on January 11, 2009 at 5:50pm — 3 Comments

Latest Activity

Dave Gallagher is now friends with Robert Wuebker, Jeff Bergstrom, Robert Pooser and TERRY FARRELL FIREFIGHTERS FUND more

Aug 10, 2010

Robert Wuebker left a comment for Dave Gallagher

"How ya doing Dave? I'm currently in the middle east and i would like to do a RIT class for our FD. Quick Question: Do you have any information on the "founding fathers" of RIT?"

May 15, 2010

Dave Gallagher was featured

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May 4, 2010

Dave Gallagher replied to Randy Childs's discussion Search methods for downed firefighter. in the group Rescuing the Rescuers

"Randy, I agree with Charley; there are too many variables. Narrowing the situation will certainly play this out and 'just a search' vs a FF down search are two very different animals. And, if it's 'just a search' what is…"

Mar 8, 2010

MARK MCLEES left a comment for Dave Gallagher

"Hey Dave The shirts arrived in my quarters on Thurs THANKS questions: Any other color besides dark blue? Can you make a collared golf shirt out of same material? I passed all the info to our “Good & welfare” tee shirt guy. He…"

Sep 13, 2009

Ben Fleagle left a comment for Dave Gallagher

"Hey Boss! Thanks for the H.O.T. class in Maine! Hearing things from a different perspective is so valuable and its been a long time since I got to play student! Besides that, I really was thrilled to meet you finally and take a moment to soak up…"

Jul 4, 2009

Mark Sicuso left a comment for Dave Gallagher

"hey brother...all is well - hope all is well with you...I may see you in Maine...be safe"

Jun 22, 2009

Dave Gallagher is now friends with Mark Sicuso and Bryan Downie