Life can get overwhelming with taskers, due-outs, deadlines, professional obligations, and family commitments. Many of us take on more than we can handle in fear that we may lose out on an opportunity or expose that we are not reliable. Over the past year I have found it extremely difficult to stay on track and organized with my day to day. I thought with my new schedule I would be home more and be able to finally tackle a lot of the projects around the house and dedicate more time to…
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I'm going to end 2018/start 2019 with a positive assessment of the past year's progress spreading the new fire dynamics knowledge and integrating it into our tactics. To be sure, this may be an overly optimistic view, as sometimes there seems to be more than enough distance between the two sides to take an entire fire service career before they meet somewhere near the center. Still, I have been seeing and hearing more and more evidence of the spread of our evolving understanding of…
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So far in this series exploring the practical limitations inherent in any attempt to motivate firefighters to think less about their own safety and more about the lives and property we are sworn to protect; to display more boldness and less caution, I have suggested that the concept of heroism is so vague as to render it virtually useless as a tool for either change or measurement, and have proposed that the route to maximizing effort is to educate, demonstrate, and support the desired…
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by Brian Benedict
Karla has a way about her that instantly connects with people. Her knowledge of the fire service, a previous career with State Farm Insurance and add her son a Lincoln Firefighter, She has many commonalities to connecting with others.
Her approach is simple. She’s genuinely interested in protecting and caring…
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Heart attack and strokes are more likely to kill firefighters than an actual fire. A recent research article just confirmed one of the major reasons why. The research confirms that the physical demands of firefighting may trigger the formation of blood clots and impair blood vessel function -- two factors associated with increased risk of heart attack and stroke. (You can read more about that research…
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The purpose of the contest is to motivate Firefighters, EMTs and Medics to change the…
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Added by Will Heiney on August 26, 2016 at 9:30am — No Comments
Every time your company hits the street whether it's for a fire call, ems run, or training opportunities almost always present themselves to identify potential hazards in your area. This is especially true for hoarding conditions. As discussed in the previous post many size-up indicators of hoarding conditions can be easily found especially with contents that seem to "flow" from the structure. However no two scenes are ever the same, especially in differing urban and suburban environments,…
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During the 2012 election cycle, my blog took on a heavy political tone.
After-all, our nation had just suffered through four years of Obamacare, stifling EPA regulations, IRS shenanigans, Fast and Furious gun program, an ambiguous Afghan War strategy, Benghazi and on and on.
So, in an effort to express my concerns and my opinions based upon my many years of study of the political arena…
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E.V.E.N.T. or the EMS Voluntary Event Notification Tool is a reporting web site launched in 2012. Backed by a long list of prestigious supporters, EVENT was designed to accept anonymous reports of EMS safety concerns in an effort to improve safety across the EMS spectrum. The concept was similar to an airline safety system that accepted "near miss" reports from…
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Its the dead of winter, football season is over and spring seems so far away. This is also the excuse season, the time of the year where most people fall off the fitness wagon and start to make excuses. Its especially easy to make excuses and miss workouts if your not seeing results. So, today I wanted to give you a little guidance and motivation (check out the FRF Fit for Duty…
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Before I worked as a firefighter, I was a trainer in both large and small health clubs. During that time I would see a lot of people exercising consistently and with intensity but only make a limited amount of fitness progress. Why? Because we are all creatures of habit in the gym and out. These “snail paced progress” gym goers were all doing the same thing… exercising, not training. And yes, their is a difference.
What is…
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As 2015 draws to a close, it is a good time to ask yourself where you stand in terms of your personal attitude, accountability and the action you take on your own health and fitness. As a member of the fire service, it is probably the one thing that you can improve upon on a personal level that has the most influence on every other part of your life and all of the people that are a part of it.
Your impact is more powerful than you may think. Every day,…
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Previously in my fire service career I took a college course on Dr. Francis Brannigan’s book Building Construction for the Fire Service. As a Company Officer, I feel it never hurts to gain new information, so I recently took a class on Lightweight Construction.
One of the first slides in the new course quoted Dr. Brannigan’s book “the building is your enemy, know your enemy” the course continued with another quote, “...buildings constructed with lightweight wood…
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Updated November 17, 2016
I hope what you’re about to read upsets you.
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Several years ago, I was having conversation with a friend of mine who is a seasoned Company Officer from an agency I use to work with. I was inquiring on how he always seemed to be calm, cool, and collective on incident scenes. I was always impressed by his demeanor and command presence on any incident, but especially on those significant ones. His was reply was simply I’m a “Duck on Water.” I looked at him with a blank stare and said what does that mean? He said I make myself stay…
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved to read. Being that my interests have been very specific, I loved to read fire books.
So it only makes sense that the National Fire Academy’s Learning Resource Center is the “holy grail” of fire literature. Contained within its historic walls are over 208,000 books, video, research papers and publications.
THIS is my happy place.
If you have not personally been to the National Fire Academy, the campus and its top notch…
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They are questions that are often asked by both those wishing to be a firefighter and by those trying to understand why someone would be a firefighter: what does it take and why do you do it?
I will often reach back into my past and resurrect some of the mental tools that I used during my time as a firefighter. It is a characteristic that is so ingrained into your being that it is yours’ to be used for the rest of your…
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work.
~Vince Lombardi
Firefighters are athletes.
Specifically, we are tactical athletes. With that…
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