Posts Tagged: Incident Management
FHZ On The Road – Upcoming Classes through Task Force 1
I've been really busy getting the home ready for the holidays. In the meanwhile, though, here's an update on where and when I'll be in your part of the world.
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Selling Budget Priorities
Ongoing efforts by LAFD to explain staffing decisions and obtain citizen/elected officials support.
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A Little Safety Parable
Firefighting isn't Jackass: There is a serious difference between taking stupid risks and calculated risks.
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Balance and Equilibrium
Unless I am compelled to do so for official business, or intend to engage in a learning session in which I can take away lessons from the event, I'd just as soon do the things I do and avoid hanging around to look at the carnage of someone else's bad day.
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Where Were You That Night?
It was inevitable that something bad would happen, given what we know now. All we can do now is honor the lives of those who go before us, pray for the families and help them deal with this tragedy, and hope we all learn from the events that evening.
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Technology Assessment
Our organization is really embracing some new concepts right now in an effort to improve capability. Sometimes these ideas work and sometimes they do not. But the act of trying these things out are learning opportunities in themselves.
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Breaking News: Huge Earthquake Hits Chile
Quake was reported as being an 8.8 magnitude and is also the cause of a tsunami that is expected to strike various nations in the Pacific basin.
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Get Your Facts Straight
What facts may seem to be in evidence right now may not always be accurate, thus the need for continual re-evaluation of your situation. Even though something appears to be true right now, it might not be in a few minutes, a few hours, or a few days.
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Taking FHZ to Wayne County, PA
As a quick aside, if any of you are interested, I'll be in Wayne County, PA on January 30-31, teaching at the Browndale Fire Department. I don't know if there are any open spots left, but contact info is on the flier.
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US&R in Haiti: Wishing vs. Planning
Every community must understand its vulnerabilities and the potential for disaster, and plan accordingly. The caveat to this is, that despite the presence of a written plan, you can have every contingency covered and discussed, if you don’t understand and practice the plan, it isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
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Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory
I was helping my oldest daughter with her English homework and we were having a discussion of the four kinds of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamatory. In light of all of the rhetoric lately on a few items, (you know, the Che…
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Qualities of a Leader
Fire Critic this morning posted on top ten desired qualities of officers. It links a lot of the ideas I have put forth to you in regard to leading and you should check it out and expound on it. Enjoy.
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Balance In Power
Right now there is an interesting discussion on Dave Statter's blog, STATter911 (in the comments) on orders given by a commissioner to remove a flag sticker from a locker. Despite the conversation outlining the age-old struggle between being too harsh …
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Congratulations!
Well, it appears that Dave and Chris have pulled off another amazing venture. I just spent the better part of an hour (with work waiting patiently on my desk) checking out the new FireEMSBlogs.com site with direct links to some of my favorite bloggers…
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Eating Our Young
It's not going to require much reading to see why the fire service can't get enough of it's collective s*** together to provide a united front on anything. Check it out at Dave Statter's blog at STAT911. You can skip the video (for my purposes) and g…
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Science Is Your Friend
While taking Honora to school a few days ago, Bob Edwards was speaking on NPR Radio with Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, the authors of the book, “Unscientific America”. While the book apparently discusses “scientific illiteracy”, some of …
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Turtles, Circumstances, and Change
Just this week, not only on our relatively quiet haven of Hilton Head Island, but right here in the community in which I live (Palmetto Dunes), comes a story which has become national news. Before I knew it would be on CNN and everywhere else, I read i…
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Ambition
At Mass today there was a reading from the Letter of St. James that got me thinking: “Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice.” It goes on to say, “Where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it n…
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Tribes
I've been pretty busy lately so I haven't been able to post. Something about the end of summer, doing deliveries and computer stuff for my wife's company, doing the initial planning and contacts for our annual Down Syndrome Buddy Walk, and of course, g…
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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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I Wanna Be A Libertarian
For the most part, I consider myself a Libertarian in that I'd just as soon the government not tell me what to do. In some aspects, I guess, I'm pretty conservative in my values, so I'm a little Republican, and I like the idea of people on welfare gett…
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