You have passed your Firefighter 1 course, probably a few others as well. Finally you’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in your fire service training, and you are coming up to the end of your FF2 training. Whether you are going through your own department’s fire academy or you are going…
There are many departments today that are looking for great candidates. The fire service is facing many personnel shortages nationwide. Besides needing more entry level firefighters, fire departments are usually promoting members as well. Since the driver/operator is considered a rank, the people who leave being a driver are usually getting promoted. So how does…
Finally passed your firefighter 1 course, passed the firefighter 1 written exam as well as the practical and you feel good. Now you are getting ready to take your driver operator course. Most people will also take firefighter 2 before they begin their driver operator courses ( pumper & aerial). This is the way I…
As I’m sitting here talking with some of the interns around the dinner table one day, I started remembering how nervous I was about taking the Firefighter 1 written exam. I remember feeling that I was never taught certain things, because some of the questions that were asked, I have never heard of before, Just…
So I was on facebook the other day, and I saw someone I went to highschool with back in Worcester, MA post a letter where he was recently invited to attend the 2022 Worcester Firefighter recruit academy. Very happy for him, and chimed in with “best career in the world”. I had the original poster…
In today’s modern fire service, there are so many things and moving parts that go into a structure fire or pretty much any management incident. From the outside in, it would seem that most incident commanders/ battalion chiefs or whoever takes control of that scene, just have to worry about what’s going on from the…
As I am sitting here trying to catch my breath here in the weight room, I like to sit back and think about how awesome it is to be a big ole silverback gorilla in a job shirt lol. To make it sound way less conceited, there are many benefits to being a big guy…
Every year there are reports on the news of wild fires that occur on a frequent basis. I have always personally thought, how could this happen over and over and over again, year after year. But Just like in structural firefighting, it tends to happen way too often than it should, because of the amount…
If you have been in the fire service, know of someone in the fire service, or you have interest in joining the fire service, you have more than likely have heard how many firefighters have to at least be an EMT.I wrote about this in great detail on this post here, go check it out…
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