Posts Tagged: Responsibilities
What gives? No outrage over ghoulish photographers shooting bodies. Has something changed in year since Connecticut trooper blasted cameraman?
Not even a whimper over videos much more graphic than a burning car. Dave thinks he knows why.
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Looking Under the Hood of Your Organization
If it’s your first time to check under your organization’s hood, then you’ll probably be unfamiliar with all the numerous parts in and around the organization.
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What a Difference… A Minute Can Make
We must be able to decode the “mess” into “opportunity”. It is paramount that we focus on the concepts that it shouldn’t be this way, but we can make it something else.
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PIO Responsibilities
After my appearance last night on Firefighter Netcast, which I thoroughly enjoyed I sat down to recap exactly what my responsibilities are as a PIO. We touched on a number of the areas last night.
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Are You Prepared to PREVENT a Line of Duty Death?
Power is the ability to command or apply force.
Authority is the right to command and expend resources.
A leader is one who can generate effective individual and group action to accomplish agency goals.
The fire service is a dynamic profession t…
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Operational Excellence
Regardless of your rank, or time in grade, the length of time in your organization, the size and structure of your department or your daily demands and challenges; leadership, mentoring, contributing, setting the example, being at your very best indivi…
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Shiners, Whiners and Recliners
I have heard a lot of analogies over my career about the fire service like “You can peal one fire department name off the wall and replace it with another one and it would be the same” and “it is the same circus but with different clowns…
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RACE: Responsibility, Accountability, Complacency, Expectations
By now many of you may have seen the reports making their way around the internet circuit relating to the regrettable circumstances in DeKalb County, Georgia. If you haven’t caught up on the incident particulars then check out these links, HERE, HERE…
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BECOME SAFE
How do you think these elements fit into the Big Picture during combat fire suppression operations at working structure fire?
What's your experience gauge telling you as it related to these elements?
As a Company Officer it is imperative that you …
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01.01.10 The First Day
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For many, the New Year has brought forth a new set of challenges as some of you transition from the firefighter rank to that of a Company Officer. To o…
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