This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the question are you ready for the “Big One?” In each fire station everyone says tonight could be the night. If It is tonight will you be ready and how to you get ready?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses does your personality match your behavior in all of the roles in life that you have. If we took the names off some resumes would we know you by your actions.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast is talking with Rob Fling (Past Chief of the Dix Hills Fire Department on Long Island) about the importance of having your facepiece on at all incidents. This is designed to be a thought provoking episode.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast looks at the relationship and meaning of these three terms, and how they relate to you and your organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses what are the options to simultaneous coordinated fire attack? What can I do with the resources I have?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast interviews Retired Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Burns from Framingham Massachusetts.Kevin is relaying a talk he gave to some school students and how there are numerous applications for the fire service.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses comparisons and standards. The advice is, compare yourself to yourself!

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about all things related to mutual aid, automatic aid, mass casualty and how to properly set up for these operations ahead of time.

This episode is operational.

This week on The Firefighter Training Podcast we talk about how to build good tabletop exercises and the system of identifying a problem, gathering intel, training, tabletop, and then full scale exercise. The tabletop is not a test but 1 piece of a comprehensive training plan.

Also two very important “AskThe Chief” segments on self dispatch and the working relationship between career and on call departments in the same system and organization.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the questions, “Are we teaching tactical decision making wrong?”

My thoughts on maybe a different way of instruction.

This episode is operational in nature.