Rick Lasky's Comments

Chief Lasky, I am writing you for two reasons, first I would like to invite you to my friends list. Secondly, I want to express to you the excitement, not only I share , but my entire department shares in the anticipated lecture you are to give to our department in October 2009. Be Safe

Chief, Hope this finds you well. I just found out your coming to N.C. for a weekend school next month, me and the wife have signed up for the class, we can't wiat to hear you speak. We have both read and love your book. Take care

Chief good to see you out there - Hoping to get you to Arizona now that I'm here .
How booked are you and when are you available?

Thanks for the inspired talk yesterday. I know for a fact there were alot of ears that needed to hear the good word. Keep it up!

Chief - Now residing in Arizona and looking forward to trying to get you here for classes.
Long live the F.O.O.L.S.
Tim

The offer is open and doesn't expire! I can be reached at cox1997@hotmail.com. Thanks for everything you do.

Chief, I'm not alone in saying that we are looking forward to having you up in Olympia Wa next month. Any chance the local FOOLS chapter could trade you a dinner and beverages for some stories and inspiration. I'm sure you'll be a busy man when your in town but it would be our pleasure Chief.

Chief Lasky,
I saw you speak up in Minnesota last fall. I came up to meet you and shook your hand. It was like shaking a bunch of bananas!! You are a great writer and I love reading your book. Thanks for all you do, Sir.

Hey Chief, I have been looking for your cd to buy for our department. (we could use alot of pride and ownership) But i can not find anybody that has it in stock. if you have any ideas where i can buy it could you let me know. That video changed me more then any one thing in the fire industry. Thank you, and ill do my part spreading the word.

Gino
Engine Co.94

Hey Chief, finished the book, great stuff! It was good to see we are doing some good things our selves but I also got a lot to stick in my pocket for later down the line. I am a huge fan of being out in the community letting the tax payers see what their dept. is doing. Unfortunately not everyone shares this view. If you don't mind I would like to ask you some things off of this page. Here is my email if you have the time. berbe11@comcast.net. Thanks again. Erbe

Hey Chief, just started reading your book "Pride and Ownership". You are right on with alot of things so far. I'll get back to you when I finish. I may have some questions. Thanks for writing and sharing with the rest of us. Keep up the good work.

Stay safe

Erbe

Thanks Chief for the add! Hope to talk w/ ya soon.

Chief,

Had you up at our dept. in Snohomish here in the great northwest a few months ago... wanna thank you again for taking the time to speak with us. Finally got my butt on Fire Engineering to see what its about.

Hello Chief
Hope things are going well for you this summer. We are still plugging away at Fishers looking for a chief. It has become a nonstop adventure. Hopefully we are close, round three of interviews are in two weeks. Stay safe.
Todd

Hey Chief,
Looking forward to seeing you again in the GREAT STATE of ALASKA. Wish you could be here longer. The Great FOOLS of FIre are pumped to have you up here. In fact our department is basically charging nothing for FOOLS members across the state to attend. Have a safe trip up Chief and see you shortly

Ben Simonds

I knew you were the guy to know the answer to that one!
Thanks Brother!

Todd McKee

Chief Lasky

It was understanding that our old ladder is in a museum in Lewisville Texas. The ladder came from Danville Ohio, are you involved much with the museum? If so do have any pictures of the ladder that I can share with the guys? Todd

Hi Chief -

Just wanted to let you know that I mentioned your name and your book and DVD in my most recent blog and article:

http://community.fireengineering.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1219672%3ABlogPost%3A71074

I hope that's OK. Let me know what you think of the article.

Stay safe. Train often.

Chief,

The other day I was evaluating an oral board and when this candidate testing for Captain answered the below question, I thought about how much of an impact you are making on our fire service. At the same time, his answer and priorities were very admirable and I'm glad to know him.

Q: If you had the department checkbook with no limitations, what would you buy and why?

A: I would buy the Pride & Ownership DVD by Chief Lasky, because none of the material/capital items have reason or meaning without the right attitude, appreciation, and love of the job by the person using them. I want to expose all of the members in our department to this idealogy.

WOW!

Again, he could have purchased anything(in theory) he wanted and he chose your "DVD". It's pretty obvious where this brother's priorities are at. I just wanted to pass this on to you and tell you thanks for the impact Chief.

FYI - That brother was Gino Bellizzi of Engine co. 94 (Snohomish County, WA) who is also a member on this site.