Mike Cervik's Groups (24)

Tactical Building Blocks

391 members Latest Activity: Dec 16, 2018

This group will focus on aggressive interior firefighting. We will address tactics that increase your chance of not getting jammed up and cover…

The Battalion.TV: True Reality, Truly Unscripted

22 members Latest Activity: Aug 13, 2017

The brothers and sisters in this group are dedicated to promoting the World's ONLY web based Firefighter Reality series showcasing firefighters…

Start Water

298 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2018 A place to discuss Engine Company Operations.

Books, Articles, Web Sites

35 members Latest Activity: Apr 5, 2014 Have you read any good books or articles lately or discovered a web site that may benefit this community? Are you looking for information on a…

Training Officers Mutual Aid Group

176 members Latest Activity: Jan 19, 2015 Training Officers and Instructors group dedicated to professional development of TO's and Instructors.

Leatherheads

59 members Latest Activity: May 27, 2015 A group composed of those members who wear or want to wear the traditional leather fire helmet!

Props and Training Aids

144 members Latest Activity: Jan 6, 2015 Share training aids and props that you have seen, or built.

FireFighterClose Calls

221 members Latest Activity: Jul 16, 2017 Fires & runs with a "Close Call" where we coulda, shoulda, woulda-or, it was simply not avoidable. Short and sweet: what happened, what we learned,…

Engine Company Ops

65 members Latest Activity: May 12, 2020 This Group will cover operations at the engine company level. Ideas will be viewed and commented on to build the better Engine Company.

Tradition, TRADITION!

300 members Latest Activity: May 13, 2015 This is the group dedicated to the glue that holds "Pride and Ownership" together - tradition! We'll be talking about historic fires, important…

Common Sense Firefighting

182 members Latest Activity: Aug 10, 2016 A group dedicated to Decision Making and Leadership on the Fire Ground

Becoming a Better Instructor!

169 members Latest Activity: May 9, 2018 A group to discuss becoming a better instructors!

Firehouse Kitchen

96 members Latest Activity: May 16, 2018 We spend a lot of time at the firehouse. We train there, we sleep there, and we eat there. Because of that, there are many incredible firehouse cooks…

Tools and Tricks

170 members Latest Activity: Jul 29, 2014 Tools that you carry in your pockets, on your rigs, have fabricated or modified. All ideas are welcome, Truck, Engine, Rescue..... Show us!

Mentoring

77 members Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2014 What are we doing, what should we be doing?

Truck Company Operations

345 members Latest Activity: Jun 25, 2019 A place to discuss any and all things related to Truck Company Operations on the fireground.

Fire Service Leadership

277 members Latest Activity: Feb 25, 2020 No matter what type of tactics or operations your department provides, the quality and efficiency are dramatically affected by the leadership skills…

Fireground Strategies

184 members Latest Activity: Aug 10, 2016 A site where strategies and tactics as well as case studies and lessons learned can be shared and dicussed

Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II

64 members Latest Activity: Nov 5, 2014 A new way to train the next generation of firefighters!

The Professor: Building Construction

180 members Latest Activity: Sep 21, 2018 In this group, we'll discuss all things building construction. What are the lessons of recent fires? What have past fires taught us?. What are the…