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Friday, June 26, 2009
Carry On,You Guys Rock!
Just thinking about the boys up north today and what a sacrifice! Hope they are surrounded with great love and loyal leaders. This is just my little spot to say keep doing your best guys, you rock!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Five quick tips for training
1. Make it hands-on
2. Make it as real as safely possible
3. Make it fire related
4. Prepare for the class
5. Keep doing it consistently
If you really want to be at the top of your game and train like you fight fires then go train with these guys, you will never forget it!
http://www.gaston.edu/programs/images/scbabrochurefall09.pdf
http://www.gaston.edu/fire/training.html
You just really have no idea how great training can be until you go here, if you are a firefighter for REAL!
Of course here is my video offering of the day, be safe keep in touch!
2. Make it as real as safely possible
3. Make it fire related
4. Prepare for the class
5. Keep doing it consistently
If you really want to be at the top of your game and train like you fight fires then go train with these guys, you will never forget it!
http://www.gaston.edu/programs/images/scbabrochurefall09.pdf
http://www.gaston.edu/fire/training.html
You just really have no idea how great training can be until you go here, if you are a firefighter for REAL!
Of course here is my video offering of the day, be safe keep in touch!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Accountability
I know that most thoughtful, loyal, progressive leaders truly care about where their people are operating and want to know that they are safe.
These guys follow a realistic system so that this is accomplished and the one thing that does not work is a tag mounted on a rig. You say by cracky that's how we do it, I say you have a dog tag for when they die, that's all.
The way you know is first of all to listen when your approaching or on the fireground to the reports given out. Secondly, company officers should as a discipline radio in their crew location and any change of location. Well we have heard that a hundred times , sure but it is time to start making it happen so that everybody really does get to go home. How do I know where you are, because you tell me where you are.
Of course this also requires radio discipline, let's just start training all our personnel in how to talk instead of letting them learn bad habits on their own and we will see a change here.
You can spend thousands of dollars but until you do this there will only be a false sense of possibly knowing where you guys are and that is not the kind of accountability that really saves lives.
Are you going to have to spend time drilling this into their heads, oh yes you do because our independent nature tells us not to radio anything like where we are because it is a responsible behaviour and we hate that.
This is WHY!!! Rest in peace brothers!
It could happen to you, Today, Think about that!
These guys follow a realistic system so that this is accomplished and the one thing that does not work is a tag mounted on a rig. You say by cracky that's how we do it, I say you have a dog tag for when they die, that's all.
The way you know is first of all to listen when your approaching or on the fireground to the reports given out. Secondly, company officers should as a discipline radio in their crew location and any change of location. Well we have heard that a hundred times , sure but it is time to start making it happen so that everybody really does get to go home. How do I know where you are, because you tell me where you are.
Of course this also requires radio discipline, let's just start training all our personnel in how to talk instead of letting them learn bad habits on their own and we will see a change here.
You can spend thousands of dollars but until you do this there will only be a false sense of possibly knowing where you guys are and that is not the kind of accountability that really saves lives.
Are you going to have to spend time drilling this into their heads, oh yes you do because our independent nature tells us not to radio anything like where we are because it is a responsible behaviour and we hate that.
This is WHY!!! Rest in peace brothers!
It could happen to you, Today, Think about that!
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