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In Part 1 we discussed items around the station that get us into a routine and how we can overcome this routine. Lets jump right back into the station items that are part of our “routine”. Lets continue to look at our PPE. Our PPE Ask yourself is your PPE important...

In part 1 of our cross-fit series we discussed the importance of cross-fit movements and how it related to our jobs as firefighters. We also discussed the first exercise on our list, deadlifts. Today we will talk about another important movement, the thruster. Thrusters This...

How did you come to be a firefighter? I have told you my story. What is yours? What drove you to pursue this endeavor? Take a moment and ponder this question: Have your motivations to be a firefighter changed over the course of your service? “Just as perceptions of the situation...

Poison control centers are organizations that are available to the private or public sector. For emergency services, dispatchers are able to use this resource to give pre-arrival instructions to the caller or to relay patient care instructions and treatment recommendations to...

Firefighters train and discipline themselves to create muscle memory, to have an almost innate ability to recall the right information, and to apply this knowledge to make a difference. If you have been involved with the fire service for any length of time you understand the...

I cannot help but think I am in the twilight zone! For whatever reasons, I continue to see with my own eyes apparatus positioned on incidents along highways in positions that exposes the crew to fatal collisions with drivers that cannot, won’t or just plain don’t care about...

The job requirements of a firefighter are constantly varied, functional movements, performed at a high intensity. That is also the definition of cross-fit. But let’s look at this through the eyes of the job itself. Some of the most intense work we do as firefighters is at a...

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I was raised in a good Christian home by two loving parents and I am the older of two children. My father worked a full time job and volunteered at the local fire department in our community. He dedicated countless hours to the community that we lived in. As a young man, the way...

With the advent of social media the fire service can now tell the public, their customer, about what they are doing faster than ever before. No longer do they have to wait until a press release is written, distributed to the news media, and for the media to print it (or maybe...