The Art of Reading Smoke with Deputy Chief Phil Jose
The Art of Reading Smoke can make your job easier. It can also save your life. Reading smoke can tell you a lot about how to fight the fire it’s […]
Scott Orr
Firefighter Sleep Disorders with Dr. Sara Jahnke
How’s the quality of your sleep when you’re on duty? Odds are, it isn’t real good. Firefighters are likely to have sleep disorders, and they can lead to disastrous consequences. […]
Firefighter concussions with Mat Blankenship
Concussions have been in the news lately, especially in football players. Football players at all levels have experienced them, and have started to see pretty bad effects from concussion. But […]
Officer in the Backseat with Robert Avsec
Robert Avsec had no idea he was about to kick over a hornet’s nest when he wrote a column for FireRescue1.com in which he suggested moving the company officer to […]
Better Engine Operations with Brian Gettemeier
If a truck driver could do the job of an engineer, fire departments would just recruit at truck driving schools, says our guest on this episode, Brian Gettemeier. There’s a […]
“American Firefighter” with Paul Mobley
Paul Mobley’s created, along with writer Joellen Kelly, a coffee-table book featuring firefighters from across the U.S., titled American Firefighter. He’s is an award-winning photographer and author of Welcome’s American Farmer: […]
ROVER … and Dante Gets a New Engine, Finally
On this episode, we learn about how a long-time firefighter turned his idea into a business. Captain Geoffrey Giordano of the Stevenson Volunteer Fire Department in Connecticut saw a need […]
Firefighter Mental Health with David Wiklanski
As this episode’s guest, David Wiklanski, points out, the human psyche wasn’t built to see the kind of trauma first responders experience so frequently. That’s why its important to work […]
Preserving Traditions with Marc Aloan
The fire service is steeped in tradition. And every community has its own, as well. But as times change, we’re in danger of losing some of those traditions. In this […]
Motivation to Train with Scott Peterson
Firefighters do a lot of on-duty training. From company-level exercises to major simulations, there’s always something to drill on. But what happens when an individual or a whole crew doesn’t […]