My Scariest Call: BC Brad Davis, Central Ariz Fire & Medical Authority
Every firefighter who’s been on the job for a while has that one call that stays in his or her memory and feels as if it happened just yesterday. We […]
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Peoria Ariz Engineer Stephen Gunn to be awarded Public Safety Medal of Valor
Peoria Fire-Medical Department Engineer Steve Gunn has been named as one of 12 public safety officers to be awarded the Public Safety Medal of Valor by the United States Attorney […]
Grant Funding with Prescott Ariz Fire Battalion Chief Cory Moser
This episode, Prescott Fire Battalion Chief Cory Moser discusses why his department got a SAFER grant, as well as what will happen when it runs out. The Prescott Fire Department, […]
Fireground Safety with Prescott Ariz. Fire Battalion Chief Scott Luedeman
This week, Battalion Chief Scott Luedeman joins us to discuss fireground safety and how Prescott firefighters stay safe. Video from FireRescue1.com: More information: “Patterns of Firefighter Fireground Injuries” report (PDF) Fact […]
Recruiting Female Firefighters: Capt. Reda Bigler, Phoenix Ariz Fire Dept.
The Phoenix Fire Department has about 1,900 employees, but just four percent of its firefighters are women. They’d like to change that. In this week’s podcast, Captain Reda Bigler tells […]
Money vs. Innovation: Chief Mary Cameli, Mesa, Ariz. Fire & Medical Dept.
Like many other fire departments around the nation, Mesa Fire is seeing more calls for service at a time when the department is also watching its budget shrink. But Mesa […]
The EMS Question
Fire-based EMS has been common since the 1970s. The first civilian mobile medical units appeared in Europe in the 1960s In 1969, while serving as president of the Los Angeles […]
The Aftermath of the Granite Mountain Hotshots LODD: Dan Fraijo, former Prescott Ariz. Fire Chief
Nineteen of the 20 members of the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew, members of the City of Prescott Fire Department, were killed on June 30, 2013 while fighting the Yarnell […]
Prescott Fire Dept. History: Firefighter/Paramedic Conrad Jackson
Conrad Jackson is a 14-year veteran of Prescott Fire Department, with 20 years fighting wildland fires, and 30 years in the Prescott community. Jackson has spent the past decade scanning […]
Finding volunteers: Chief Robert Rielage, Wyoming, Ohio Fire (Ret.)
If you run a volunteer fire department or a combination career-volunteer department, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that it’s been getting tougher over the years to find and recruit qualified volunteers. With […]