The below video in my opinion reinforces a lot of the concepts we talk about on this blog, and that are being discussed on various fire service blog sites all over the internet. You will see a fire free burning, ...

I posted about the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb in my FDIC 2011 Review here: http://averagejakeff.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/fdic-2011-review/ I actually took some video of it myself, but the attached video is FAR superior and I think it is important to show just how ...

  Well I am back home from the annual fire service meeting of the minds known as FDIC, and I can honestly say this year was AWESOME! It was definitely a different view of the conference as in the past I ...

Greetings one and all just wanted to put another post out there about FDIC Things have been going great and as the conference begins to come to a close I am already thinking about getting back home to apply everything ...

Greetings from INDY! I just wanted to take a quick moment to touch base with you on all of the great things going on here @ FDIC. SO far I have enjoyed some good food, good instruction, and GREAT inspiration ...

Tomorrow morning I am heading out to FDIC in Indianapolis Indiana. I’m lucky enough to have been selected to teach a classroom session on Wednesday. I am even luckier to have had the chance to attend FDIC about 7 times, ...

Things are getting really crazy here in my world. With the countdown to FDIC looming, medic class, part-time work, and the regular family stuff I haven’t had a lot of time to do much else. A lot of time when you are busy ...

People continue to talk about our culture and how it needs changing. Some people argue that we need to be less aggressive and more safety conscious, others argue that we already have enough safety in place, and if operations were done ...

The below video is from the Bedford Virginia Fire Department and shows a firefighter down scenario that they recently had. Rhett over at www.firecritic.com has some great coverage of it here: http://firecritic.com/2011/03/raw-video-helmet-cam-footage-of-mayday-in-bedford-virginia/# While the lessons from the video are obvious ...

If you remember a post back in December when I talked about getting dispatched to unknown problems then you already understand where this is going, if not here it is http://averagejakeff.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/humbled-and-so-much-to-talk-about/ Flash forward (or backwards since it was yesterday) and yesterday we ...