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#120 Creating a "Crew 1st Culture" with Jeremy Sanders Feb 13, 2022

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Jeremy Sanders from Crew 1st Culture has been part of the American Fire Service for over 20 years. His leadership training company Crew 1st Culture is based in Oklahoma USA and they teach courses on leadership, culture, and ways to overcome some of the hurdles in a firefighters career. Jeremy's mission is to develop an underground movement in the American Fire Department.
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#119 Surviving Highrise Fires & Thriving in the Fire Service - John Chubb Feb 06, 2022

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District Officer John Chubb of Dublin Fire Brigade has been hugely influential in transforming Dublin's response to tall and complex buildings over the last 10 years.
He has traveled to areas such as Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the UK, and the USA. Taking lessons from every stop combing those examples of good practices and adopting them into his own service,
He has worked with some of the most influential people in the sector including Paul Grimwood UK, John Norman FDNY, Jerry Tracey FDNY, Michael Reick Germany , Stefan Svenson Sweden, Steve Kerber and many more mainly from Canada.
(sorry for any misspelt names above)
John introduced the novelty pieces of equipment into DFB like smoke curtains, smooth-bore nozzles (branches) for high-rise firefighting, 52mm hose, Denver pack (as opposed to Cleveland roll) hose deployment, and also included hose stretches and management into the trainee initial development courses. He is also a fantastic CFBT instructor, known around the world.

Other achievement of his is being on the panel of experts for one of the UL FSRI (read below if you're not familiar with them) experiments titled "Impact of Fire Attack Utilizing Interior and Exterior Streams on Firefighter Safety and Occupant Survival"
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#118 The Hardest Recruitment Course in UKFRS with Martin Foran & Ross Strother Jan 30, 2022

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International Search & Rescue Recruitment is considered by many to be one of the toughest selection courses still in existence within the UKFRS.
Today you listened in as I spoke with the 2021 recruitment course leader Martin Foran & fellow Directing staff (although far for experienced than me) Ross Strother about what is takes to pass recruitment for UKISAR and what kind of characteristics will carry applicants through the toughest parts of the long, wet, cold, sleep-deprived challenges set across and wide-ranging terrain covered with complex scenarios for recruits to demonstrate their teamwork and skill sets to overcome and ultimately pass this selection process.
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Gibraltar Everest Challenge - A Charity episode supporting Cancer Relief Jan 22, 2022

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The Gibraltar Everest Challenge will take place on Saturday the 29th of February 2022 at 09.00 by Firefighter Matt Coulthard with Simon Morgan, Jock Alan Stevenson, Brian Fleming, Gary Richard Edward Evans,
The team are summiting the Rock of Gibraltar 24 times which will take them over 9000 metres. Everest being 8849 metres. That would be a challenge on its own, but they are dragging a car tyre on a chain.
You can support this by visiting the Just Giving Page HERE
You can contact Matt HERE
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#117 Simon Hunter CEO of Hunter Apparel Solutions Jan 16, 2022

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Simon is the C.E.O. of Hunter Apparel Solutions Limited.
Simon is Accountancy with Honours Graduate of the University of Ulster, a Chartered Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, an overall winner of the UK Director of the Year Award from the IOD, he has an MBE for Services to Business and the Economy and he has over 25 years of experience in the uniform and PPE sector.
Hunter Apparel Solutions Limited is a pioneer in the creation and management of technology-driven professional clothing. In 2020 alone they provided PPE for over 20,000 members in 23 services in the UKFRS, 1,000 members of Dublin Fire Brigade as well as thousands more in the areas of Paramedical and medical, Defence forces, police, and many more.
Hunter began as a bespoke tailoring specialist in 1936. Over the years their professional clothing designs created through HunterONE®, have changed how businesses in a wide range of sectors look, but the efficiency of HunterCARE® and HunterPAC® have transformed the way many more operate.
Learn more about the company by looking at their Youtube clip HERE
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#116 Firefighting in Tall & Complex with a Foundation of Fire Behavior with John Chubb Part 1 of 2 Jan 16, 2022

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#115 The 2021 Greece Wildfire's Deployment of UKFRS with Dani Scott, Tracy Doyle & Joe Dennehy Jan 09, 2022

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The hills in the Athens suburbs of Greece are still lined with rows of burnt trees after fires ripped through the area in August 2021 as they experienced some of the worst wildfires on record.

Forest fires are an annual occurrence in the Mediterranean, but various factors have caused stronger heatwaves and a longer, more intense, annual fire season. On average, 80% of the burned area across Europe occurs in the Mediterranean region, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

This summer was also one of the worst on record. Wildfires tore through the entire region, from Tunisia and Algeria in the south to Spain, Italy and Greece in the north. In southern Turkey and Greece, residents and tourists fled areas ablaze as authorities struggled to deploy firefighting resources to battle the worst affected areas. Various news outlets reported that the fires caused at least 86 deaths.

As part of The UK government response to support these efforts the Home Secretary called upon the skills of UKISAR to support this response and today im speaking with fellow members of UKISAR Dani Scott, Tracy Doyle & Joe Dennehy who were part of that deployment.
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#114 CFBT Non-Negotiable's & Shared Expectations with John McDonough Part 2 of 2 Jan 02, 2022

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This is the second part of my conversation with John McDonough who has been a professional firefighter for 34 years with the Fire and Rescue New South Wales in Sydney Australia.
He is currently an operational Duty Commander in charge of 14 stations in the busy inner west zone of Sydney. He was Team Leader of the Fire Operational Training Team (FOTT). This team trains all firefighters and officers in structural fire behavior and firefighting techniques and tactics.
He is extremely passionate about the introduction of modern fire behavior-based firefighting techniques and tactics specifically developed to make the role of firefighters safer and more effective.
Over the last 17 years, this has developed into a standardized doctrine for how firefighters act and behave at the task and tactical level. It is taught at all levels from recruit to Station Officer.
He is a co-author of ‘3D Firefighting – Training, Tactics and Techniques’, which is published in the USA by FPP / IFSTA. In 2009 he was awarded Australia’s highest honor for Fire Officers, the Australian Fire Service Medal for his work in structural firefighting training. He has a Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment and an Advanced Diploma in Management.
In this episode, we talk about the following areas:

Eyre Massey Shaw's Complete Fire Manual of the organization, machinery, discipline & general working of the London Fire Brigade from 1876 PDF
Training on Non-negotiables by John McDonough PDF
The Science of Water Extinguishment by John McDonough PDF

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Firefighters Fighting Cancer - The Next UK Pink Firefighters Challenge - FLASHPOINT with Dean Keeber & James McCall Dec 31, 2021

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In this FLASHPOINT I caught up with close friends and operational firefighters Dean Keeber & James McCall as we planned the next charity event for The UK Pink Firefighters.
Dean & James were open and kind enough to share some really personal accounts of how their families have been affected by Cancer.
The Pink Firefighters is a group of firefighters based in the UK and we wear Pink fire kit to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research, awareness and treatment.

In the UK, 366,303 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2017.

Of these cancer cases, 186,883 were in men, and 179,420 were in women.

1 in 2 people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
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#113 CFBT Non-Negotiable's & Shared Expectations with John McDonough Part 1 of 2 Dec 27, 2021

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John McDonough has been a professional firefighter for 34 years with the Fire and Rescue New South Wales in Sydney Australia.
He is currently an operational Duty Commander in charge of 14 stations in the busy inner west zone of Sydney. He was Team Leader of the Fire Operational Training Team (FOTT). This team trains all firefighters and officers in structural fire behavior and firefighting techniques and tactics.
He is extremely passionate about the introduction of modern fire behavior-based firefighting techniques and tactics specifically developed to make the role of firefighters safer and more effective.
Over the last 17 years, this has developed into a standardized doctrine for how firefighters act and behave at the task and tactical level. It is taught at all levels from recruit to Station Officer.
He is a co-author of ‘3D Firefighting – Training, Tactics and Techniques’, which is published in the USA by FPP / IFSTA. In 2009 he was awarded Australia’s highest honor for Fire Officers, the Australian Fire Service Medal for his work in structural firefighting training. He has a Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment and an Advanced Diploma in Management.
In this episode, we talk about the following areas:

Eyre Massey Shaw's Complete Fire Manual of the organization, machinery, discipline & general working of the London Fire Brigade from 1876 PDF
Training on Non-negotiables by John McDonough PDF
The Science of Water Extinguishment by John McDonough PDF

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***The views expressed in this episode are those of the individual speakers. Our partners are not responsible for the content of this episode and does not warrant its accuracy or completeness.***

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