Posts Tagged: Economy
Zen Zone #12
There is a time when decisions must be made.
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Zen Zone #8
If you are going to be the Chief, it helps to have thick skin.
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Scary Rhetoric and Hypocrisy
People love to hate hypocrites. And in this day and age where so many people are looking for heroes, when we get it wrong, we get it wrong in a big way.
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Complacency
Complacency is a subject that seems to surface repeatedly in our business, a business that requires constant vigilance. It strikes all of us at one point or another. The cure, sadly enough, seems to be getting stung.
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Welcome To Hilton Head Island
The masses have converged on our department headquarters for the weekend.
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Burn!
Think your FD needs help? Check out this promo for a documentary on Detroit Fire Department. It's a great video and can really put things into perspective.
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The Disincentive for Responsible Reporting (Tax and Spend Socialists)
When I decide to offend, I think I'm an equal opportunity offender, because like I stated, I'm not a proponent of either camp. I think for myself.
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Attachment to Before
Attachment is when you believe that things can or should remain one way forever. Things are in a constant state of change.
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Honoring The Past While Embracing The Future
If the motives behind a merger are based on a genuine concern for doing what is best for the community, a merger can be a whole lot less painful than many individuals make it out to be.
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Take a Good Look Around-This is Your Town
As you drive about your response district today, coming back from an alarm, heading to the firehouse tonight or running errands around your community, take a good look around. Ask your self a simple question; “How well do you know the buildings, struct…
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Thanks for increasing the chance that my wife and children will get a visit from my Chief and a Chaplain.
The economy is in the dumps, the teabag revolution is morphing, and it is politically rewarding to slash the budgets across the board, no matter the true cost. What will it take to find a way to bring costs down without killing us, your so-called heroes?
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Elvis, Urban Legends, Grapevines and The Firehouse
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Elvis has left the building, in the literal sense. Elvis Presley came to mind today because of the Facebook vote we are taking for a colleague as…
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Cellular Dependency
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It wasn't really by design, but the last time I was in Atlanta, I found that I had some problems getting my e-mail on my fancy smar…
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Who Is Building Your House?
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Ken Bell, a friend and the other Deputy Director of the South Carolina US&R Task Force, announced this week that he is retiring…
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Why Yell?
I'm Mick, and I yell. I think this is the part where you all are supposed to say, "Hi Mick." Why do we yell? I started to say, "I'm a yeller", but that doesn't sound right. And I don't scream. Screaming to me indicates panic or total loss of pe…
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Star of Life Law Blog
I am encouraged by some of the blogs that are going on out there right now and I try to throw a link to the good ones over on the side over there (you know, over THERE, on your right). A great one that popped up in the past few days has some serious me…
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What Is "Better"?
I was playing around with Twitter the other day and blundered onto a site that discusses social media, coincidentally named Social Media Insider, which of course, led me to a link (and to another) in regard to quality. The title of the blog was act…
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Just Wanna Have Fun
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I started to title this, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", but no matter what I did, that title wasn't fitting really well. Soooo, as you may be ab…
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Persistence
Jacob Riis said, "When nothing seems to help, I go and watch a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not th…
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Great Truckie Tip
Good stuff as usual from the folks over at Vententersearch.com; a truckie tip on carrying your hooks while carrying your ladders. Go check it out!
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Life Changes In A Split Second
The other day I think we all were thinking about the death of the child struck by a Kansas City engine as reported by Firehouse.com. As you have probably heard thousands of times before, it doesn’t take too many incidents like this one to remind you …
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Fugate Nominated to Head FEMA
I'm always happy to see a fellow firefighter and paramedic do well for themselves, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that Florida Emergency Management Chief Craig Fugate was nominated to head up FEMA. I don't know him personally, but I think that am…
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The Value of Education
As Jamie Thompson over at The Kitchen Table points out, getting an education is an investment in your future. Yes, there are things that need cutting back in departments, but the training budget should be one of the last to go. As a chief officer in you…
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