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Stockton Fire Video Revisited: The Pressure Inside

Fire department releases another view of January vacant building fire

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You may recall the fireground video from Stockton California where the local news station reported that the chief had some questions about the actions of his firefighters on that video. The story gained…

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Added by Bill Carey on March 26, 2014 at 6:30am — No Comments

A Missing Plane, Mitigation Speech and The Fire Service (Part 1) On The Fire Ground

As I see all the news reports about the missing Malaysia Airline Flight 370 I wonder how they got off track. Did anyone in the cockpit notice they were off course?  Maybe and maybe not.  If they did recognize the problem, did they speak up to the Captain?  When they spoke up were the comments clear and direct or were they passive hints and suggestions that the pilot never picked up on?

 

Malcolm Gladwell, in his book “Outliers”, introduces us to what is known as “Mitigation…

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Added by Grant Schwalbe on March 14, 2014 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

OUT OF TOUCH

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then this technology intrenched generation of youth is from the center of Pluto! Old-school thinking and marketing will be the death knell of today's fire service, especially in the volunteer sector with we don't learn to be creative in our recruiting methods.

 

How is your department coping with these…

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Added by Paul Combs on June 24, 2011 at 2:00pm — 6 Comments

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