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Residence.
Long Island, New York
Department:
Port Authority Police of NY&NJ ** Wantagh (NY) Fire Department
Title/rank:
Police Officer/Aircraft Rescue Firefighter ** Firefighter/EMT-Critical Care
Years of public service:
18
Agency structure:
Public safety (police-fire)
Top issues in your department:
Work: Morale. Lack of having "a voice" in what goes on.

Volunteer: EMS workload. Politics.
Professional Qualifications:
I have a lot of certificates for a lot of different things.
Topics you provide training for:
Paid: I teach EMT Basic and Advanced EMT-Critical Care courses.

Volunteer: I just started getting involved with my new departments training committee. I am currently in the process of revising & re-writing their SOP manual. I really enjoy teaching Truck Company Operations

I absolutely love teaching the "probies" whether it's on the front lawn doing size-up, or after the fire is knocked down taking the junior firefighters into a structure and showing them around and explaining what happened and why.

I've had 2 articles published in Fire Engineering and I have 8 more articles that are awaiting publishing dates.

In addition I am the creator and host of "The 'Average Joe' Firefighter Podcast" on FireEngineering.com.
Areas of expertise:
I am not an "expert" at anything. I am better at some things than others.
Bio:
I am a Police Officer/Aircraft Rescue Firefighter with the Port Authority of NY & NJ Police Department at John F. Kennedy International Airport in NYC. I am also a certified EMT-Critical Care and Clinical Lab Instructor at the Nassau County (NY) EMS Academy. I was previously a Police Officer with the NYC Police Department and a Supervising Fire Alarm Dispatcher with the FDNY.

I've been a Volunteer Firefighter since 1990 and reached the rank of Captain and served as a Training Officer.
Web site:
http://www.wantaghfd.com/

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Barry Daskal

The ‘Average Joe’ Firefighter PODCAST

Hello to all the members of the Fire Engineering Community. My name is Barry Daskal and I am a police officer/aircraft rescue firefighter in a large public safety department in New York as well as a volunteer firefighter in my hometown.

I’ve started a new podcast debuting on the Fire Engineering Website titled, The ‘Average Joe’ Firefighter.

These are going to be interactive podcasts with guests who I have known over the course of my fire service career. This… Continue

Posted on October 27, 2008 at 11:37am — 1 Comment

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At 11:31pm on November 12, 2008, Larry Lasich said…
Thanks. Had a Ron White moment when I started to reply. Didn't realise the guy was a District Chief. Guess that's a Batt Chief around here. Oh well, it's just my opinion.
At 11:07am on November 7, 2008, Jim Mason said…
Barry, I'm glad you're enjoying CSF. I am too. It seems like most eveyone else is. This is where it's at for me. Making decisions on the fire ground. It's the things that the "Tactics Classes" don't teach Trying to learn from others to help develpo experience for our next response. We've got alot more comming ! Delete Comment
At 6:12pm on October 31, 2008, Brad Hoff said…
Sounds like a very interesting topic of discussion and pretty much sums up the American Fire Service.

Good luck and I look forward to hearing them!
At 9:26am on October 30, 2008, Larry G said…
Just heard about your "site" good luck with it. I look forward to learning from it.

Larry g (JFK)
At 12:29am on October 30, 2008, michael hynes said…
thanks buddy
At 9:01pm on October 27, 2008, Barry Daskal said…
CHECK OUT THE 'AVERAGE JOE' FIREFIGHTER PODCAST AT:

http://www.fireengineering.com/podcasts/index.html
At 12:32pm on October 27, 2008, Roy de Leon Jr. said…
Do you have a list going to notify folks about your upcoming podcasts?
At 8:31am on October 17, 2008, Bruce Green said…
Nice....I understand...honored to have you on my friend list.
At 12:56pm on October 16, 2008, Bruce Green said…
nice to meet you also...your job-past jobs are very interesting sounding...I understand that PAPD is a great job...certified in both states-correct? How was that gig as a Supervising Dispatcher for FDNY? sounds cool--did you ever try to get on FDNY as a ff?
At 12:53pm on October 16, 2008, Bruce Green said…
we are on the same page...i was kinda sarcastically replying to the article that you re-printed lauding police officers...vs. the guy who wrote in above us about having cops arrested. I know all too well about the pd/fd relationship and the some times well intentioned ''interference'' that pd's do on scene which ends up making the fd's job harder. I've been a vol. ff for almost 25 years,Chief for 4 years and work pd as my full time occupation.

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