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Who’s helped you along the way?
By: Robert Avsec Recently, I saw a tweet on LinkedIn from one of my colleagues, Janet Wilmoth, the editor of Fire Chief Magazine and one of the staunchest supporters of firefighters in all the land....
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A New Direction for Fire Protection in the USA
By: Robert Avsec Pick up just about any fire services trade journal, or visit such websites, and you’ll see that leaders in the USA fire services are saying pretty much the same thing: there’s a “new...
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A Good Drug Policy is a Good Risk Reduction Policy
By: Robert Avsec Doesn’t it seem like everywhere you look these days, somebody has a drug problem? No, not that kind of drug problem! I mean the kind where an individual and an organization are...
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Why Don’t We Value Women in Fire & EMS?
By: Robert Avsec Several years ago, I wrote a piece for Fire Chief Magazine’s fledging—at the time—blog, Mutual Aid, about a book I’d recently read, Generally Speaking by U.S. Army Lieutenant General...
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Role Models: Who are yours?
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer Not Chief Avsec! Editor’s Note: Chief Avsec is skiing his way around the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania this week as he and Mrs. Avsec take in some R &...
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The Sexual Assault and Rape of Women Firefighters: Survey Results
I’m sitting at my computer on a beautiful Sunday morning, Mother’s Day as a matter of fact, and I’m working on this blog post. And I’m getting madder by the minute. Mad because I’m collecting the...
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Let’s Really Starting “Thinking Outside the Box” for Fire Protection in the USA
Pick up just about any fire services trade journal, or visit such websites, and you’ll see that leaders in the USA fire services are saying pretty much the same thing: there’s a “new normal” coming...
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CampHERO Teaches Girls “Can Do”
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer Behavioral research shows that by the time they begin their school years, young girls and boys already have some pretty “defined” ideas of what men and women...
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Fire Camps for Girls & Young Women
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer In a previous post, I shined the “spotlight” on CampHERO, a fire camp designed to show young girls that they can become a firefighter, law Fire camps provide...
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Thoughts on Changing Fire Service Culture
By: Branden Husky, Guest Blogger Culture consists of group norms of behavior and the underlying shared values that help keep those norms in place. Changing our culture? I saw this piece from Chief...
View ArticleBe Proactive: Marketing Fire and EMS
The reality that's "hitting" home with many Fire & EMS organizations today, however, is that their citizens do have a choice. In the current economic climate, where most local governments are...
View ArticleTales of Customer Service in Fire and EMS
Delivering outstanding customer service is not a “nicety” for your department; it’s the key to its survival. The successes I just described did not occur overnight or in a “vacuum”; they were earned...
View ArticleLooking Back on Leadership Beliefs
Now that I'm a grandmother looking back on my fire service career, I feel as if I have something to share that I believe will help other public safety leaders to never lose faith in people and their...
View ArticleFire Service BrotHERhood: A Story
The tragic deaths recently of two members of the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department shook the fire service community and reminded us once again of the hazards of the job. In the aftermath, there...
View Article5 People Die for Lack of Residential Fire Sprinkler System
Without a residential fire sprinkler system, this fire quickly grew to a size and magnitude that engulfed the majority of the structure before the first firefighters even arrived on scene. Those...
View Article4 Steps for Better Portable Radio Communications
Good radio communications are critical for safe, efficient and effective operations on the emergency scene. How many times has poor incident communications been cited as a significant factor in NIOSH...
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