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Clean the Litterbox
My family is motivation for much of what I do in the fire service. Alex, Laurie and Kathleen (l-r) This blog is a companion piece to my article titled “Make it Personal” featured in the June edition of...
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From X-Box to the Box Alarm
As I travel around the country talking with other firefighters, a commonly recurring theme of our chat is the future of the volunteer fire service. The conversation always comes around to the topic of...
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Fortune Tellers
Fortune Tellers: In my last blog titled “Dig In.” I talked about the importance of story telling in the fire service and how it serves as a means of sharing experiences, traditions and values from...
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Dig In.
Dig in. “Early on in my fire service career, we responded to a report of a tractor-trailer rolled over on a nearby state highway. We arrived on scene and found a truck lying on its passenger side. The...
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Make It Personal
Firefighters must start living the Life Safety Initiatives for us to see an impact on LODDs. The following article is a reprint from the June-2009 edition of Fire-Rescue magazine. It is also a...
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I recently had the opportunity to tape a radio show titled: “Sound Magazine” with Carl Russo of 97Rock. The segment focused on the recruitment of volunteer firefighters and will air on several Citadel...
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Going to the Show! See You in Indy.
I hope to see all of my loyal followers (both of them) at FDIC in a few short weeks. I’ll be presenting “From the X-Box to the Box Alarm” on Thursday-April 22, 2010 at 10:30am in Room 127-128. There’s...
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The Bob Legacy
I make no apologies if my readers have grown tired of my semi-annual tribute piece to a man who meant more than a mentor to me, as this year is even more special to me, and even more important than the...
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Meth, Click, Doom.
In July of 2014, I had enough! I couldn’t go on. I was so confused not knowing what was going on in my life − why was I like this? I had to stop myself from hurting my family. I felt I needed to...
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The Exit Row
Scott Geiselhart, Jared Meeker and Tiger Schmittendorf connect at the New York State Fire Chiefs Conference in June-2017 While most of my return trips from FDIC – the Fire Department Instructors...
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