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A New Professional Model for the 21st Century

In the fire service, our leadership is drawn from the rank and file. Firefighters train and become drivers, then company officers. Later they may move to managing officer, managing organization divisions, then chief level officers, and, perhaps, chief of department. This development model has served us well in the past; however, it has several weaknesses, which disadvantage the fire service. This blog is putting forth a new model for professional development which develops future…

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Added by Dave Donohue on September 28, 2024 at 12:47pm — No Comments

The ABCD’s of Writing Learning Objectives

All training begins with the end in mind. In the fire and emergency service, training frequently revolves around the performance of tasks and even our knowledge-type training frequently manifests in performance metrics. To define the end state of training, trainers and content developers assemble learning objectives. Terminal Learning…

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Added by Dave Donohue on September 21, 2024 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Enhancing Hazardous Materials Team Value

Traditionally, hazardous materials teams are focused on emergency response and training. While these are critical functions, are teams missing the boat by not expanding into other service areas where their expertise can be of benefit to the organization? I believe by performing additional, values-added services, hazardous materials teams may improve the level of support from their organizations, develop additional funding sources, increase staffing, improve responder health and safety, and…

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Added by Dave Donohue on September 14, 2024 at 1:12pm — No Comments

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