Change Is So Hard For People? It can be broken down into two areas: to want, or not to want, and often depends on where our attention is most focused. Most of the time we don’t want what we have. We don’t want our bosses breathing down our neck, hassles from other firefighters. There are […]

We’re here to train hard, basic training is over. You should have graduated from basic training with a core set of skills that will require a considerable effort to keep improving. And what we need are firefighters that are able to rely more on their ability to problem solve and think. Most of our training is […]

From the time we begin this profession, we’ve been told “real firefighters fight the fire from the interior of the structure”.

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen, or placed in inventory.

Many times we believe training is not necessary because we believe we are good enough to overcome whatever challenges we are confronted with.

There has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you’ll find this always to be true.

The fire service today needs risk takers, leaders who have the courage and willing to push the envelope, to say the unpopular, to nudge the fire service down the path that might be uncomfortable but might be the right path to go.