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THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION Student Notes   TOPIC: IMPROVING WRITTEN SCORES   Behavioral Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participants will be able to: Understand how to prepare [...]

Command Major Fire Department Emergency Operations   Assess the situation/determine incident complexity   Report on conditions to dispatch   Gain situational awareness of incident [...]

Scenario: You are a new officer and just finished your shift. One of the firefighters’ scheduled to work today has called in sick. You have him replaced. On the way home you stop at the local [...]

In the past we’ve discussed the various experiences that often affect our lives.  It’s always interesting when we find ourselves doing or saying something that our parents did, and it’s usually a [...]

  Fire Service Personal Integrity Agreement Respect Yourself! Respect for yourself first, and them respect for others. If you do not respect yourself, you certainly won’t respect others. Be [...]

The crew is well groomed and appropriately dressed, their uniforms are in good condition. Their apparatus and allied equipment is clean and in good working order. Their station and grounds are [...]

CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG A Look At Work Relationships And Generation Gaps As we discussed in part one and two of the previous“ Getting Along In The Work Place” articles, sometimes we just [...]

FIRE SERVICE MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER A Look At Work Relationships And Generation Gaps Part 2 In the last article that I wrote on generation gaps in the fire service and I spent a lot of time on [...]

FIRE SERVICE MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER A Look At Work Relationships And Generation Gaps  INTRODUCTION Workplace tension, due to the different generations in today’s workplace, is a topic getting a [...]

Fire Department Concern For Safety During the month of January, I had the opportunity to conduct training for two organizations. My first stop was in St George, Utah where the Utah Fire and [...]