Posts Tagged: Benjamin Franklin
Looking Back – It All Started Here
While he was growing up, he always admired the "fire clubs" and their sophisticated methods of putting out fires.
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Benjamin Franklin Fire Service Trivia
A few days ago I was the guest speaker at the local Rotary. I was giving the Rotarians a general overview of my department and how we provide service to the community. In preparing an outline for my remarks I recalled that a member in the club always throws out a historic trivia challenge during the meetings. His facts are great and always met with amazement and a rumbling across the room of “I didn’t know that!”
Not to be one upped I needed a great wow factor fact about the fire service to win over the hearts and minds.
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It’s Useless Knowledge Thursday
This is pretty cool. Today’s post is just a bunch of useless knowledge. Mark Steiger, a firefighter friend of mine from east Texas saw my Fourth of July post about the founding father of the volunteer fire service, Benjamin Franklin. Mark MC’s a holiday parade each year. Before the festivities get underway he regales the crowd with some Colonial era useless facts. I know it’s not PIO relevant, but it’s allot of fun to read.
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Quoteable Quotes
I’m not one to be a big guy on quotes when I speak. Some people can quote great philosophers, writers and poets whenever they are engaged in conversation. Over the years though I have accumulated a few quotes on the art of communications to try to make a sometimes difficult subject more simplified in my own mind. Here are some of the Fire Pio’s quotable golden rules of communications –
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