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Poor Leadership
Replied Jul 27
Training on Sunday's
Replied Feb 8
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This is a group that is avaiable for Officers to gripe, fuss, and complain. Too often Officers have no place to take their frustrations to and just vent. There is no judgement passed here, only understanding and encouragement.
Becoming an officer is a daunting task. Becoming a good officer on the fireground is even harder. This group will concentrate on Fireground operations and the decisions that fire officers of all ranks make. I will post scenarios and ask question.
Sunday has always been "our day" and guys are not excited about changing that. I started with simple street test and slowly tried to expand it into type of structure at that location with possible tactical problems and considerations. This can be ...
Cams can be used as a great tool in learning. I believe that you should have a SOP in place before allowing them to be used on a fireground, especially restriction or management expressed permission before they are allowed to be published on U-tub...
I believe the biggest problem teaching Pride, Honor, Repect, Tradition, and Duty is that we have a generation of people working for us that have little of any of them. Many of these things have never been instilled in them about anything because '...
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- Department:
- Shawnee Fire Dept.
- Title/rank:
- Battalion Chief
- Years of public service:
- 20
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Top issues in your department:
- 100 yrs of doing it our way
- Professional Qualifications:
- Hazmat tech and specialist, EMT-I, Dive rescue
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