Lt. Nick Hilton

From a quote by Jocko Willink in his book “Extreme Ownership”, Nick takes a quick five minutes or so to explain how the quote applies to leadership in the fire service. Leaders must control their emotions and their adrenaline when giving assignments and speaking with their members. At the same time, however, we need to learn to not be robots. “People don’t listen to robots”.

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Lead. Empower. Win. could be the fundamentals that we need to adopt and look into when it comes to reviving the volunteer and on-call fire service. The volunteer fire service model is in crisis right now. There are many reasons why this is happening, and the reasons may differ depending on where you’re located. Strong Leadership and Empowering your members is a great place to start.

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This week’s Wednesday Box Alarm focuses on the importance of paying attention to detail and being consistent on and off the fire ground. The smallest things, the ones that seem like they wouldn’t matter, could actually change the morale and the effectiveness of your organization. From designing a fire apparatus to situational awareness on the fire scene, attention to detail and being consistent play important roles.

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This episode hits on a few places where attitude in the fire department needs to be addressed. It is easy to get wrapped up in the negative attitudes around the fire station. Especially as firefighters, we are constantly exposed to tragic situations. One of our biggest goals in the volunteer and on-call fire service is firefighter retention. We need to be focusing on how to make sure our members that we have right now won’t walk away from our organization. A lot of it comes down to attitude.

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In this week’s Wednesday Box Alarm, Nick Hilton discusses how to deal with the inevitable comments from the peanut gallery saying you are “just a volunteer”. It happens to the best of us. Mostly, because the general public doesn’t understand what it means, and what it takes to be a volunteer or paid on-call firefighter. Listen to this short commentary to learn how to handle such a comment.

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This week’s full length episode the entire team sat down with along time friend and the President of the New England FOOLS Chapter Rusty Ricker. If you have never heard of the FOOLS, which stands for the Fraternal Order Of Leatherheads Society, you’ll certainly want to listen to this show. We discuss the history of the FOOLS, how to join, how to participate in training opportunities and the benefits of joining.

We also get Rusty’s take on what it takes to maintain a successful volunteer, on-call or per-diem Fire Department.

Be sure to check out the New England FOOLS at www.nefools.org and the FOOLS International site at www.foolsinternational.com

We snapped a quick photo before going in to record. Behind us is South Berwick, Maine’s retired 1980 Ford/Pierce that was purchased by a group of members of their organization. Hamel was dared to bring it to the house.

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Are you tired of the negativity and drama within your fire department? You’re probably finding that it is nothing but a toxic bug that is bringing the morale of your organization down. In this week’s Wednesday Box Alarm, learn the one key thing that is needed to control and eliminate any negativity, drama and complaining.

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