Dave Werner's Blog (37)

The 2013 "Making Yourself Hard to Kill" fall conference will be held October 25-26 in Philadelphia, PA. Registration is now open, and there are discounts for those who register early so get on it! http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/07/leadership-under-fire-fall-conference.html…

Join us for a FREE 8 hour class put on by Nick Martin from Traditions Training LLC on August 10th in Simpsonville, SC. More details to come! Traditions Training FREE Class!!!! 

Are you 100% in the game, or do you rabble on the sidelines? Spectators-Heads Up Firefighting

Mobile Wall Breach Prop-Heads Up Firefighting...An easy to make prop for practicing wall breaching wherever you have an open door

Making Yourself Hard to Kill, Second annual conference put on by Leadership Under Fire. October 25-26, 2013 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philly, PA. You don't want to miss this conference!

Again...and again...and again..., if you don't repeat it, you won't be ready!

A valuable report, with valuable lessons for all of us...http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/06/pgcfd-wind-driven-fire-report.html

Do you really know how hard your body is working on the fireground? http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/06/firefighter-physiological-monitoring.html

What are people's thoughts on vacant/unoccupied structures? Check out Go/No Go on HeadsUpFirefighting and chime in on what you feel works for your department.

Heads Up Firefighting: One Size Fits All

Check out the presentation by NASA Astronaut Mike Mullane which lead to Lance Peeple's article on the Normalization of Deviance...http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/05/normalization-of-deviance.html

Is this what we are coming to?

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/04/spraying-smoke.html

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/04/ca-house-fire.html

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/03/goggles.html

Do you know what you're looking at?

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/p/props.html

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/03/keep-it-simple.html

http://headsupfirefighting.blogspot.com/2013/02/looking-down-road.html

What are your motivations for promotion? Are you letting that goal get in the way of keeping yourself sharp in your current position?