Designing the Ultimate Fire Engine with Ricky Riley
What if you had unlimited funds to design and build the ultimate fire engine for your department? Yours would undoubtedly look different than one designed halfway across the country. You […]
2018
Wood Construction Can Kill You with Mark van der Feyst
We all know we’re facing fewer structure fires these days … but the ones that do ignite are more dangerous than ever. More lumber is being used, and , worse […]
Lessons Learned from the Charleston 9 LODD incident with Dr. David Griffin
On this show, we discuss a major line-of-duty-death incident: the loss of the Charleston Nine. It happened on the evening of June 18, 2007, at the Sofa Super Store in […]
Why You Should Be Doing Oriented Searches with Chris DelBello
How do you conduct a primary search? I’ll bet you do it by having the whole search crew follow the walls, staying in a line, right? Doesn’t that seem a […]
Getting Others to Meet Your Expectations with Dr. Liane Davey
On this show, we’re going to talk about team-building from a different point of view. How do you get your co-workers to live up to your expectations? Let’s say you […]
Sister in a Brotherhood with Cindie Schooner-Ball
We call it the Brotherhood. It’s been the basis of the fire service since … well, forever. But of course, nowadays, women are joining the brotherhood. Not many yet—the national […]
Anatomy of a Confined Space Rescue with Mike Daley
On this episode, we take a look at a confined space rescue and dissect it. It happened in 2014 at a water treatment facility in New Jersey. An employee found […]
When to Fly a Patient with Cory Moser and Joseph Uridil
When do you request a medical helicopter to a scene? Most captains and battalion chiefs will err on the side of caution and at least put the aircraft on standby. […]
Old-School Attitude with Chris Tobin
If you spend any time on Twitter, you’ve likely seen the tweets from Chris Tobin. He’s a firefighter from St. Louis. And in the four years he’s been on Twitter, […]
Paying for Community Paramedicine with Gary Ludwig
We’ve discussed community paramedicine programs on this show in the past. They hold the potential to take a load of work off firefighters, and at the same time, offer better […]