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How to Improve Operational Effeciency

Regardless of a department’s size or type, the training program for it is the cornerstone of both safety and operational efficiency. Just as how an individual’s success in training can be the difference between life and death, a department’s overall training program can affect...
Posted On 15 Dec 2014
, By Erik Wood
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3 Ways Company Officers Can Improve Resource Management

Have you ever been on a call where three Chiefs, two engine companies, and a truck company all arrive on scene at the same time? And without any organized plan of attack, everyone just looks at one another to see what’s actually going on. Situations like this can cause a lot of...
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
, By Erik Wood
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3 Ways to Improve Public Support for the Fire Service

We often fall into the trap of assuming the citizens within our protection area only need us when there is an emergency. The reality is that in today’s fire service, we can offer far more to the public than just jumping on the truck when the tones go off. Sometimes these...
Posted On 05 Dec 2014
, By Erik Wood

    4 Steps For Rural Water Supply

    Rural water supply encompasses more than just the challenges of bringing water to the location of the fire. The available water on hand, coupled with the immediate availability of water on the next arriving engines, often drives initial fire attack strategy in a rural setting....
    Posted On 19 Nov 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    4 Tips for Writing Department Standard Operating Guidelines

    Writing department guidelines we will hold our members accountable to and expect them to follow is not an easy task and sometimes requires a little bit of trial and error to get it right. It’s a challenging, labor intensive, and mind numbing job that in today’s fire service is a...
    Posted On 05 Nov 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    3 Strategies Of Fire Attack Using A Rural Water Supply

    We have established where the water supply point will be and determined the need for additional resources on the call. Our next major challenge is determining the best attack strategy — based on the water we have on hand and how soon we can have additional water on scene....
    Posted On 22 Oct 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    3 Leadership Tips For Volunteer Fire Departments – Part 3

    Leadership Tip #3 – Be Supportive & Appreciative As leaders in the volunteer fire service we have the unique challenge of managing our community of volunteers to do a job most people would never consider doing. We ask them to leave family functions, make training, and...
    Posted On 22 Aug 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    3 Leadership Tips For Volunteer Fire Departments – Part 2

    Consistency is a very important of solid functional leadership. However, without good solid communication nobody will know if we are being consistent or not, and even if we are the membership may be getting the wrong message. #2 – Communicate Communicate, and communicate...
    Posted On 15 Aug 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    3 Leadership Tips For Volunteer Fire Departments – Part 1

    The success or failure of leadership boils down to how functional that leadership is. Crews on career fire departments may rarely interact on a personal or professional level with anybody above the rank of Battalion Chief. On volunteer departments, the Chief is very likely to be...
    Posted On 08 Aug 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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    4 Common Fire Service Grant Writing Mistakes

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Forestry Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and many state agencies offer fire service grants for everything from apparatus to station buildings to bunker gear. In many cases, we are competing for funding with hundreds...
    Posted On 19 Jul 2014
    , By Erik Wood
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