Fire Service Management
Running a fire and EMS organization: management science, legal issues, risk and customer service.
Thoughts on Firefighter Recruitment Media
The job market, depending upon where your department is located, has become very competitive--for the employers. For volunteer departments, their very survival is dependent upon their ability to recruit new members to maintain their ability to provide services.
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 written comments from the survey on Sexual Assault and Rape Against Women Firefighters and I cannot comprehend the idea that the same men who are treating the moms in their lives to flowers and cards and dinner are the same men who have sexually assaulted or raped their female colleagues in the fire station.
What is Fire Corps?
And that’s the real focus of Fire Corps. Getting more people with varied backgrounds involved in the multitude of tasks that are required to run a fire department and provide services to the community they serve. Think of the possibilities ...
Rape in the Fire Station: A Survivor’s Story
Sexual assaults and rape being perpetrated on our sister firefighters by their colleagues--and in many cases their leaders--isn't a women's issue that they can solve. It's a failure of fire department leadership and that means it's up to the men who occupy the majority of leadership positions in the fire service to eradicate this blight from our profession.
Don’t Think the “Glass Ceiling” Exists for Women in Fire and EMS?
I find it truly sad and disappointing that in 2014 we still have politicians making such outrageously poor management decisions for their Seattle FD BCcommunity’s Fire and EMS protection. I look at this individual’s investment in herself and in her department, as well as her department’s investment in her, and I’m left shaking my head in dismay.
Being a Firefighter Shouldn’t Mean Getting Raped
The military services of the United States are not the only organizations that are plagued by sexual harassment and sexual assaults that include rape toward their female members. We have a similar problem in the fire service in the United States as well.
Fire and Injury Prevention for the Communities We Serve: A New Way
We’ve not had a significant impact on preventable fires with our current methodologies. To paraphrase a popular management mantra for change these days, “What got you here, won’t get you there.”
NFIRS Data: Using Thought Leadership Media
Robert - this article is right on track. I've personally been involved in using NFIRS data to justify the need for new Stations, Rigs and Personnel. It was response time analysis that allowed us to show areas of the city where we were falling short. That data helped convince the politicians and taxpayers, both.
NFIRS: It’s not a Data “Black Hole”
NFIRS “goes” by many names. Some call it by a state program name, e.g., The [Enter a state name] Fire Incident Reporting System; others call it by the software program a department purchased, e.g., Firehouse™ Incident Reporting; and some simply call it “run reports.” It’s all the same thing, no matter what you call it. And it’s highly useful.
We Don’t Need Sensitivity Training…We Need More Leadership Training
Gender violence issues. Did you know that researchers have found that when a large percentage of both men and women hear those three words, what they really “hear” is “woman’s issues.”
Tampa II: Food-for-Thought 4 “Get Away Day”
I'm confident that the issue of fire prevention has been discussed at length as it should be: if no fire occurs or it's extinguished by an installed fire sprinkler no firefighter need be injured or killed in the line-of-duty. So here's my blog repost for your and those folks at Tampa 2 on "get away day", Children Don’t Cause Fires, Adults Do
Reader Comments: Children Don’t Cause Fires, Adults Do
We focus on the young likely because its easy. But, what we Fire Prevention Demoprovide in education is often lost in an overriding effort to entertain them. Further, without reinforcement of the fire safe/prevention message in their home environment, any value is soon lost to the parent's daily example/attitudes towards fire safety.