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  • A New View: From the Front Seat

    As a company officer, you are going to be put in a position of "Having all the answers."

    Article • February 23rd, 2007

  • Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Citizens Fire Academy
    Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Citizens Fire Academy

    The class schedule consists of speakers, tours, demonstrations and classes.When I first moved to Las Vegas in 1996 to accept the position as public information officer (PIO) for Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, I moved to a community that I was not familiar...

    Article • February 19th, 2007

  • More Lesson's I Learned at the Circus

    January is an important month to me. It is more than just the first month of the New Year, but it is the month when I travel south to play my tuba at the circus in Florida. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy getting together with my circus music...

    Article • February 5th, 2007

  • What Are You Prepared to Do?

    Courage, it is said, is not the absence of fear - it is, rather, action in the face of fear.

    Article • February 5th, 2007

  • The Ten Command-ments of Intelligent & Safe Fireground Operations

    Mark Emery discusses rules firefi ghters, officers and chiefs should follow and how obeying them could contribute to a decrease in the death and injury of scores of firefighters.

    Article • January 31st, 2007

  • Wise Fire Service Leaders Know Their Place in the Market

    It has long been my experience that the buying and selling of things is what helps to makes the world go around. If you are a buyer, be an educated consumer. These are people who know exactly what they want and exactly how much they should pay for it...

    Article • January 31st, 2007

  • Improving Organizational Performance: One Great Example

    Periodically, we see a fire department conduct a management process that deserves a standing ovation. An excellent example of this can be found in the Montgomery County, MD, Fire and Rescue Services. An organization well known for excellence, it has...

    Article • January 31st, 2007

  • I Have a Dream...for Safety in the Fire Service

    Statistically, it is easy to argue that we, as an industry, are not getting better. Less fires - yet the same number of fatalities and injuries.

    Article • January 15th, 2007

  • What Do We Have to Lose?

    The perfect applicability of President Truman's statement to our current conditions clearly reveals the fact that we are still struggling with the same problems and trying to overcome the same obstacles, and that we are not much further along as we...

    Article • January 15th, 2007

  • Selecting Emergency Vehicle Drivers

    Clearly, it's in your best interest to use only good, safe drivers - but selecting, training and maintaining them shouldn't be left to chance.

    Article • January 8th, 2007

  • David vs. Goliath: Attacking the U.S. Fire Problem

    Let me share the story of a modern day Fire Service David that is planning on challenging the Goliath, which we all know as the American Fire Service.

    Article • January 8th, 2007

  • Keeping Yourself Out of the Legal System and in the Station

    Are you comfortable with making that decision with the lack of fire cause and origin training that most of us firefighters get?

    Article • January 3rd, 2007

  • Alliance and Sponsorship Development for the Fire and Emergency Services

    It's important that alliance development become part of the department's overall marketing plan. It is a part of the "relationship sector" (the who) of the Marketing ICS System.

    Article • January 1st, 2007

  • The Wee Small Light of Joy

    My dear friends, this is the perfect time of the year to begin our journey toward the light of knowledge in the world today.

    Article • December 24th, 2006

  • The Power of Ones

    Reports indicate that lightweight structural members perform rather weak under the adverse fire conditions. That being the case, we should then use the fire sprinkler technology to put out the fires, before these structural members are even exposed to...

    Article • December 18th, 2006

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