This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast B/C John Cagno (Ret.) and I discuss five leadership books and how they can apply or relate to the fire service.

• The Leadership Challenge – James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• Leading At The Edge – Dennis Perkins
• Developing The Leader Within You – John Maxwell
• 360 degrees of Influence – Harrison Monarth
• Commanding Excellence – Gary Morton

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast takes stock of US and creates a personal reflective inventory.

This is a shortened episode designed to take a look at what we contribute to the team, and what belonging to the team means to us.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at occupancies once again and talks about large renovated or retrofitted facilities that may have been manufacturing at one point and are now storage and or something else. The sheer size and square footage can easily overwhelm many department’s resources.

This is an operational episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about command teams. Specifically how to properly staff the command function at an incident. Chief Woolery is from San Diego gives his perspective and we also talk about how this could work in smaller departments and systems.

This episode is operational.