Posts Categorized: Public Relations
Countering assaults on public safety
Counteracting aggression and violence on the streets against public safety employees.
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“Python of the Toilets” Caught at Last
AFTER ELUDING THE BELEAGURED RESIDENTS of an apartment building in Vitrolles, France, for two weeks, a 7-½ ft. long python was finally caught yesterday.
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Can’t a Medic Have Fun Anymore?
Other partygoers are wearing much less as they pose with the emergency vehicle - black underwear, thigh-high boots and see-through yellow plastic ponchos.
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Morning Lineup – May 13
No standard list of little page topics in a box along the left edge of the site, but an active list of tabs that literally invite you to click and follow. You'll see what I mean when you try it out.
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All He Needs is Some IAFF Applications…
The first step was to improve living standards inside Iraqi fire stations.
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The FDIC Experience: Returning Home
For the next four long hours I felt like I was in a scene from "The Terminal" --- the movie about an eastern immigrant stuck living in the airport with nowhere to go and unable to leave because he had no country to return to, and therefore no official citzenship anywhere.
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Going to the Show! See You in Indy.
I hope to see all of my loyal followers (both of them) at FDIC in a few short weeks. I'll be presenting "From the X-Box to the Box Alarm" on Thursday-April 22, 2010 at 10:30am in Room 127-128. There's room for 308 of my closest, most personal friend…
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Grumblemedics
Grumblemedics seem to be everywhere, whether they're a "grumble-Pee" or a "grumble-bee", perhaps they should evaluate their own attitudes. We have a long way to go, but look at how far we've come.
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Dishing it Back to the Home Builders
IN SANFORD, MAINE, FIRE MARSHAL PETER CUTRER is taking a positive approach to public education in order to counter the real estate and home builders lobby.
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Maybe They Work There….
An OFD firetruck that had stopped to chat with some party girls who wanted to get their pictures taken with the firetruck.
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The Rail Disaster That Wasn’t
Unfortunately, the faux press release was posted on their website instead of the training page and panicked relatives all over the country
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Good Public Education
This is good example of effective use of the media to help educate the public.
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Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come
A letter I got from a fellow Paramedic has caused me to write a long tyrade on the state of EMS. This post will make you mad. It will challenge you and challenge our profession. You will probably see yourself in the words this Paramedic wrote to me. We Need Change.
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Silent Bob’s final words
Silent Bob post final words about the Southwest Air conflict in a 10-hour 24 part series of You Tube clips that ends with an apology.
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Why I am Passionate about the Chronicles of EMS
I am energized, passionate, and genuinely excited about the Chronicles of EMS. I'm in 100% - Here's why you should be too.
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Fire Dog Gets New Duties
And now it has even come down to giving the fire dog some extra responsibilities.
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Creating a Clearinghouse
Patience is some times not one of my better virtues. I've been kicking around the idea of creating an online clearinghouse of recruitment and retention resources for quite some time.
Needless to say, it's an area of the fire service that I'm quite ab…
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Cross-Continental Divide or Deja Vu?
Now I'm not the biggest EMS geek but two fellow Fire-EMS Bloggers have embarked on their own home-grown exchange student program that has proven to be pretty darn entertaining so far.
Justin "The Happy Medic" Schorr is hosting Mark "Medic 999" Glen…
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A Veteran of Many Things
I'm blessed to be the keeper of a three-ring binder that details my father's entire military service history from his enlistment in World War II through his survival from the Korean War. Military campaigns, the boats he traveled overseas on, the camps he received his training at, the medals he received, and more --- it's all detailed in this book created by my first cousin Jim Schmittendorf, my father's godson and a retired Lt. Colonel in the US Army.
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FF’s Give 8-yr.-old Cancer Victim His Dream Back
Erick, who lives in Riverside, was able to suit up in full firefighting gear and go on a ridealong with a Redlands Fire Department crew.
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A Motivational EMS Article Geared towards Newer EMTs
This is a motivational piece geared towards new EMTs that I wrote for a department's monthly newsletter. Feel free to steal it to inspire your own troops.
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It’s Time to get SAFER!
Are you SAFER than you were last year?
That is, did you submit a grant application under the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response” program for recruitment and retention?
If you didn’t, you missed out on a great opportunity to better your fire department, or in our case, the entire volunteer fire service in our region.
Here’s the good news. You get another chance. DHS just announced that the application period for the 2009 SAFER grants opens November 16, 2009.
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Sunday Randomness – Some EMS Pet Peeves
My Sunday Randomness seems to have devolved into a rant about some of my pet peeves in EMS. There's some old crusty complaints in there, I know... but every dang one of them will improve your care.
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Listen Up: Recruitment Radio
This was the second installment of "Sound Magazine" that focused on volunteer recruitment and more are planned for the future.
It offered me the opportunity to talk about being a kid who "ran to the curb" whenever I heard a fire siren and all of the great things that come with being a volunteer firefighter.
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Fortune Tellers
Fortune Tellers:
In my last blog titled “Dig In.” I talked about the importance of story telling in the fire service and how it serves as a means of sharing experiences, traditions and values from generation to generation. In this article I try to tell a story, and in that story, I hope you can find a lesson to share for generations to come.
Almost every firefighter I meet speaks of how they always knew, from the time they
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