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#111, Control Your Command Climate
In wildland firefighting we talk alot about the weather. Weather has a huge impact upon our operations in the field. We also talk about the changing climate and how our seasons are longer, fuels…
#110, Fire and Ice Communications
In your life as a firefighter and leader, more often than not, it’s miscommunications that will cause you more trouble and heartache than just about anything else. If we could only understand why we…
#109, Prisoners of Fire – The Motion Picture
This podcast should have been posted about 6 months ago, but the filmmaker and I finally got together to talk about this important story. Every firefighter, every family member and every friend of a…
108# Why The Grand Canyon Lodge Burned Down
Right now, I’m hearing alot of armchair quarterbacks passing judgement on the National Park Service management of a wildfire on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The ensuing fire burned down the…
#106, Do We Need A National Wildland Fire Service?
Currently in congress and in the Whitehouse, there is more than just talk about combining the 5 federal wildland fire agencies into one organization. There is a draft executive order floating around…
#105, Preparing for the Crazy Unexpected
What’s the craziest unexpected occurance that’s happened to you at an incident or responding to an incident? Was it critical enough that you had to change your plans. The crew of this type 4 engine…
#104, Do What I Didn’t Do… If You Like Breathing
Two weeks ago, I lost my long time friend, mentor and type 1 Incident Commander to a work related illness. He died after being sick for a couple years. Those last two years for him were not good…
#103, Why Care About Diversity?
There is alot of talk about DEI these days. Much of it is not accurate and much of it implies affirmative action… which is not DEI. In the fire service we will work with lots of different kinds of…
#102, Some Truths About The LA Fires
There are lots of emotions right now about the fires in LA. And there should be. Thousands of people are forced from their home and many of those will come back to nothing but devastation. But let us…
#101, What We Permit, We Promote
Do you get tired of the topic of workplace bullying? I sure get tired of talking about it. But you know what? It’s still going on. It wasn’t long ago that an east coast female firefighter committed…
#101, What We Permit, We Promote
Do you get tired of the topic of workplace bullying? I sure get tired of talking about it. But you know what? It’s still going on. It wasn’t long ago that an east coast female firefighter committed…
#100, It’s More Than The Money
What does it feel like when our job fulfills us? It’s pretty great, isn’t it? Having a passion for our job can make the time at work speed by. It also gives us a sense of purpose. We can excell on…
#99, What If You Call For Help And No One Comes?
If you’re reading this, I hope you know that our society is at a crossroads. We’re at a point that the largest wildland firefighting force… the US Forest Service is hemorrhaging firefighters right…
#98, How Should We Honor Our Fallen Firefighters?
Going to a fallen firefighter memorial ceremony is always an emotional event. There’s no way it can’t be. But what should a memorial look like? I recently attended the re-dedication of the Dude Fire…
#97, Are You Used To Risk?
Have you gotten used to being in risky situations? Maybe things that seemed risky when you were less experienced, don’t seem so bad anymore. Is that because now you’re more knowledgable and are aware…
#96, Don’t Chase Your Reputation
Have you ever had a problem with your reputation? I have. I had long and successful career in the fire service and yet I’ve had plenty of times when people spread rumors about me. Some of those…
#95,Questions Aren’t a Threat, They’re the Answer!
Sometimes, we as leaders think an employees question is a threat to our authority. They may be trying to learn, but their curiosity can be squashed by how we respond. Our body language and the words…
#93, Risky Business – How We Got Here
For many of you, risk management is a common phrase that you’ve hear a thousand times a summer. But in the wildland fire service, it hasn’t been that long that we’ve even used that term. We didn’t…
#92, Failure
Have you ever felt like a failure? How about just having failed from time to time? In this episode, we talk about what it means to fail versus what it means to merely make a mistake. The difference…
#91, How Firefighting Changed Me – This Is No Joke
If you’re a firefighter, have you ever felt isolated from those friends and family members who aren’t firefighters? I never realized how different I was until I retired and wasn’t around as many…
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