What Defines A Successful Outcome?
Teams must get adequate direction to insure successful outcomes. To begin with, let’s slide over to Dave Statter’s site for this embarrassing moment in Missouri. I have been in plenty of fires where...
View ArticleProtect Your Loved Ones
Give your subordinates a chance to succeed while you watch them closely. There’s been a lot of talk about death in my family lately. I have been coveting a tortilladora for a while, a relatively heavy...
View ArticleWhere Were You That Night?
I probably can’t tell you anything about the Charleston incident that you don’t already know, except the incident from my personal perspective, and I have never shared that with anyone except my family...
View ArticleBalance and Equilibrium
I think it does us good to be a little of everything. One of the best parts of the fire and emergency services is that although it is the same job each day, for the most part, the challenges presented...
View ArticleA Little Safety Parable
You too could be roadkill. Photo courtesy of aanimalcontrol.com So I’m walking from our house to the beach with my three daughters. There’s a road we have to cross in between here and there that’s...
View ArticleLiving Up To Chief Croker’s Ideal
Chief Croker, FDNY; Image from the New York City Fire Museum found on the Croker Fire Drill Corporation website When Chief Croker suggested that in our choice to become firefighters, the act of...
View ArticleVest-Wearing Yard-Breathers
I am one of them, so be nice. You have likely heard others say, “Discretion is the better part of valor”. This is actually a misquote. In fact, Shakespeare’s Falstaff said: “The better part of valor...
View ArticleFHZ On The Road – Upcoming Classes through Task Force 1
I’ve been really busy getting the home ready for the holidays. In the meanwhile, though, here’s an update on where and when I’ll be in your part of the world: February 19-20 – Command for Company...
View ArticleYou Can Quote Me On That (Before 2010)
I was driving down the road the other day and thinking, you know, I too could have a list of quotes, just like the real writers have. So in the interest of filling up a page of useless knowledge, I...
View ArticleOkay, Let’s Try This Again
In June 2009, I blogged about spontaneous bystander response, or rather, the difference between that and a bunch of people jumping into their Fire SUV and driving to say, Bastrop, Texas, only to be...
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