Recent Articles
Posted By: Jeffrey Betz
Wed Jun 29th, 2022
Have you ever experienced the issue of having personnel or teams that are trained to a standard, yet struggle to effectively apply their training when necessary at an actual incident? Perhaps the issue is not that there is a need for retraining, the issue is in applying what they have learned. As an
Posted By: Demond Simmons
Wed Mar 30th, 2022
Good afternoon company officers and firefighters. Last week, we responded to a structure fire incident that resulted in several firefighter injuries. The goal of this educational session is to discuss operational challenges that occurred at this incident. It is imperative that we all share our persp
Posted By: Dave Donohue
Wed Dec 29th, 2021
Scenario: As your department training officer, you have noticed that performance at emergency scenes has not been up to standard. As a result, you put together a quick training program to address the performance gaps, but the solution hasn’t been as successful as you had hoped and now the Chief is q
Posted By: Eric Dreiman
Wed Oct 27th, 2021
Overview
Apartments, garden apartments and townhomes comprise a portion of the dwellings in nearly every fire jurisdiction. This article will point out the construction features of these buildings, the special problems they present under fire conditions, and will establish acceptable methods of fir
Posted By: Kevin Kupietz
Wed Sep 29th, 2021
Soft skills and the Employee
Everyone has heard that saying about a person that is very smart, but they do not know when to be quiet and listen. The one that says he/she is a great technical firefighter but does not talk to the public well or does not play well with others. The firefighter that is
