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#246 British Firefighter Challenge 2023 with Jack Baker & Matt Adams Aug 12, 2023

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Today I'm talking with Firefighters Jack Baker & Matt Adams who both competed at this years British Firefighter Challenge
Jack was the fastest Male in the 18-29 category and also won the entire competition with his time of 02:14:09 taking home the trophy, gold medal and a second William Woods Watch as the now reigning champion.
Matt took second place in Male in the 18-29 category with his time of 02:18:43.
This years event was hosted by The Firefighters podcast at the Cathedral Gardens, Manchester City Centre on the 29th & 30th of July.
The venue for our 2024 event is Liverpool, Pierhead , underneath the iconic Liver Building famous in so many great films. It is also being co-hosted with Pride 🌈 so plenty of reasons for our competitors and spectators to take the journey north next year. Firefighters wanting to take part will be able to register their interest on the website and then registration as always will be 1st January.
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#245 James Geering - Lessons from a Podcaster & Life Behind the Shield Aug 05, 2023

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Today i catch up with my good friend, retired firefighter and fellow podcaster James Geering.
James runs the Behind The Shield Podcast based in the US and you find more information about him by visiting the podcasts website HERE
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#244 How the Fire Service, the EA & First responders protect our environment with Andrew Barnes & Ed Sullivan Jul 29, 2023

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Today im joined by Ed Sullivan who is the Hazardous Materials Lead at Ricardo - National Chemical Emergency Centre & Andrew Barnes who is an Incident Management Specialist at Environment Agency
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#243 Creator of the Smoke Curtain Dr Michael Reick Jul 22, 2023

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As a civil engineer Michael Reick started to work at the University of Stuttgart and at their fire testing and research laboratory.

As a volunteer fire fighter he started the training for the career fire service and worked as a regional fire chief. In 2004 Michael Reick used his study leave to perform computational fluid calculations about positive pressure ventilation. His aim was to prevent smoke spread into stairways to keep people and fire fighters safe by controlling the smoke and air flow in buildings.
This work and lead to the development of portable smoke blocking devices now referred to commonly as SMOKE CURTAINS. This tool and the strategy to control fire and smoke developed itself to a proven standard for thousands of fire departments globally.
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#242 Be Seen, Be Saved - Reflective & Phosphorescent Technology with Luke Evdemon from Viz Reflective Jul 15, 2023

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How much do you know about High Visibility ?
Do you know what you could be wearing to keep you safe and ensure you get seen & found when perhaps your life depends on it.
Luke Evdemon talk to us about Reflective & Phosphorescent Technology and his work as part of Viz Reflectives. Viz Reflectives are Innovators and experts in reflective and phosphorescent technology.
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#241 The 999 RE:SET for First responder Mental & physical wellbeing in the outdoors Jul 12, 2023

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999 RE:SET is a charity based in Scotland creating weekend experiences for First responder Mental & physical wellbeing in the outdoors.
You can find more information and book onto their upcoming weekend where the podcast will be in attendance on their platforms below
Instagram - https://instagram.com/999_reset?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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#240 Dawn Whittaker CFO of East Sussex FRS Jul 08, 2023

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Dawn Whittaker is the Chief Fire Officer for East Sussex Fire & rescue service.
During our chat today we discuss her journey into the emergency services as well as her incredible knowledge and experience outside of the sector. Her mantra is to improve the performance of organisations through people and well managed change.
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#239 Fire Behaviour & Firecraft with Steve Luke Jul 01, 2023

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The Podcast team recently attended a 2 week fire behaviour Instructor course at the largest and most renowned fire training facility in the UK.
Some of the incredible Instructors leading the course included:
Steve Luke
Dave Payton
John MacDonald
At the end of the course Pete & Sarah sat down with Steve Luke to discuss some of the key learnings from the course as well as some of the misconceptions about fire behaviour and fire craft.
Steve served in the Military before becoming a Firefighter where he found his niche which is that he loves to teach people.
He teaches new students from day 1 in their Fire Service career to confirmation of skills then up to the most experienced operators.
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#238 Rob Green from Firefighter to Station manager & back again Jun 28, 2023

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Rob is a serving firefighter in the UK fire & rescue service. In his first career in the fire service he served across many stations both retained/on-call and wholetime finishing at the rank of station manager before choosing to re-apply and join again as a firefighter.
Rob has had some incredible personal and professional experiences that he shares on todays episode. For context this episode was recorded back in October of 2022.
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#237 From Recruit to Instructor with Sarah Bromley Jun 24, 2023

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Sarah is an operational Crew Manager in the UK Fire & Rescue and passionate advocate of developing great firefighters with a solid grasp on firstly the fundamentals then becoming a subject matter aspect in the art of firefighting. She is currently based in the training department Instructing on Breathing Apparatus, Fire Behaviour & many other skills with all firefighters from new recruits up to long serving firefighters.
Sarah is also now a member of The Firefighting podcast team supporting on all things Merchandise, Media & Culture. She came onboard recenty adding to the growing team on the podcast.
You can reach Sarah by email at Sarah SarahB@tffpc.com
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