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Paul Combs's Blog – June 2011 Archive (3)

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

TOUGH TALK - JUNE MAGAZINE CARTOON

The kind and gentle approach doesn't work any more - so perhaps the current day Smokey needs an image adjustment! This is just a suggestion, of course:)

To see more of my work, visit:…

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Added by Paul Combs on June 17, 2011 at 2:23pm — 6 Comments

FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER

If you carry a cell phone these days, you carry a camera and video recorder, too. Technology has made life recordable, anywhere, anytime, even when it's inconvenient or inappropriate! Take a moment to notice bystanders on your next MVA or structure fire; my guess is you'll see plenty of cell phones out recording our every move. This is the technological world we live…

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Added by Paul Combs on June 14, 2011 at 7:30am — 7 Comments

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