A few weeks ago I read a post on WWW.Workingthejob.com by Jason Jeffries. In his post he dissected the Navy Seal Creed and how its ideals applied (or should apply to the fire service). While he is not comparing the Firefighters to ...

We all know the statistics that are out there. Firefighters and other emergency services workers are dying of cardiovascular issues typically heart attacks that cause cardiac arrest. However we still focus our firefighter rescue training on drags, bailouts, etc. While ...

Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you have heard about the IAFF/NIST Study on Crew Size Effectiveness. They published the study, and now have this video explaining and showing the difference. Now those of us ...

I was contacted a few weeks ago by Firewhat.com (www.firewhat.com) and asked to review their Wild Fire Pro App for the Iphone, well since I don’t have an Iphone I had to pass the review on to my brother Danny O below ...

It has been a tough year for Virginia already and today with the announcement of the loss of another brother this time from Norfolk Fire and Rescue. Lets keep the family of Jonathan Myers and the Norfolk Fire and Rescue ...

We may often fall short of our goals, but we must still never give up and never quit. We owe it to our families, citizens, and brothers to be the very best we can be every shift. 1 hour in ...

No not Ladder 49 (although that was a great movie), this is an actual documentary of what it is like to be a firefighter in the City of Baltimore Maryland. The movie is titled 13 BOX and follows a group ...

TOP O THE MORNING TO YA!!! Today is St. Patrick’s day, I wanted to get this post out earlier but I ran out of time, and had some training to do for my new part-time job. Unfortunately St. Patty’s is not ...

  While I normally try not to post about work, or my department because a lot of people (mostly the bosses) do not like the fact that I blog, or write articles for magazines I feel that when we do ...

Take a look at the clip below. It comes from the show “Rescue 911”. If you have ever read the blog before then you already know that Rescue 911 was a huge influence on me. People before me had Emergency ...