Bureau Bulletins.
Articles, notes, random thoughts.
Making mistakes & fireground improvements
The role making mistakes plays on the training ground and the fireground and how to bring quality assurance and quality improvement to the fire side of what we do.
Technology for technology's sake & command from where?!
Computers running pumps brings up some concerns and takes us down the path from engines to Aerialscopes, after a conversation about command and where to put officers, chiefs, and the command post.
Taking orders, cancerous people, and tactics
- Addressing freelancing in a small department
- Mentorship
- Who’s getting on scene first for your fires?
Standing orders, gameplans, and extrication JENGA
Standing orders, gameplans, and extrication JENGA — just a few parts of the discussion with firefighters from all over the country.
Egos, training, and mentoring
- Takeaways from the high-risk, low-frequency incident of the week
- How to find training opportunities on a daily basis (even on EMS runs!)
- Mentoring new members and overcoming the egos we all bring to some extent