By implementing preventive strategies such as risk screening, exercise training, and sleep hygiene, we can reduce LODDs.
Gary Ludwig on how to establish the vital need of your department in the community while helping to build an excellent reputation.
What does the work of leadership look like? How does it feel? How do you know when you are doing good work? Pete Van Dorpe looks at the hard work of leadership.
Any individual at any level of the organization has the potential to make a difference. Greg Noll discusses being able to lead and to influence change at any level within your area of responsibility.
Fire departments have the responsibility to deliver quality service every time out the door. To do this, five elements that need to be considered: people, equipment, training, policies, and leadership. Organizations need to strive to provide the best by continually improving their operations with these elements. This class will look at each component and suggest areas to evaluate and improve.
This class will illustrate the dynamic and dramatic preparation and response of the FDNY's 6th Battalion units during the first two nights of the protests, riots, and looting following the death of George Floyd. The presentation will spur a discussion on how the chiefs working in the FDNY's 6th Battalion kept their members safe while responding through thousands of protestors and agitators, hundreds of NYPD police officers, and garbage strewn streets to extinguish almost 100 fires—including police cars full of ammunition, one report of a police officers trapped in a burning patrol car, and multiple calls reporting structural fires.
Duckworth offers these tactics for dealing with some of the more gruesome injuries firefighters may face while on the job.
The leadership and courage that fire officers routinely display on the fireground by crossing the threshold must be matched in the firehouse with the same degree of enthusiasm and skill.
Corbett uses his far-reaching expertise on building codes, fire behavior, and other aspects of construction to examine the dangers fire departments face when responding to modern structures made of lightweight building materials.
