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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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In this episode Nick Hilton touches on six points that will help you become and remain a high performing firefighter. These are things that will improve your personal life, professional life, fire service career and most importantly, the organization you belong to. By taking the time to listen to this episode, you’re making the first step to bettering yourself and the fire service.

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The Wednesday Box Alarm is the show that brings you commentary, opinions, tips, tactics and everything in between. Shorter than our full length episodes, but just as valuable!

This week’s Wednesday Box Alarm is on the value of fire service related podcasts by Nick Hilton

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This week’s episode features a list of ways all of us can learn our coverage district while doing out day to day routines. We drive to and from work, we run errands, we spend time outside enjoying our hobbies and we go out for breakfast, lunch or dinner. These are the times we should be observing and taking in what is around us.

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This episode was something we have been working on for quite a while and was originally going to be two separate shows. However, due to an unknown technical defect the audio came out like below our standard. We strive to always give our audience quality material, but due to situations beyond out control our recordings came out like crap. But, we encourage you to listen to this extra-long episode even though we don’t sound as clear as usual.

Why is it extra long? Well, because we couldn’t possibly upload two separate shows in a row with terrible quality. You all deserve better than that.

So, this show highlights two articles. One written by Jack Kline of Syracuse.com titled “Make volunteer firefighting fun again”. The second, written by Ed Dolan is titled “19 Ways to slow the bleed in the Volunteer Fire Service”.

The 2nd half of the show is our Ask us Anything episode where we answer questions from you, our listeners.

Please come back next week for an episode with better quality!

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Listen as Nick Hilton and Paul Balentine discuss with Chief Chris Balentine ways to retain membership in your volunteer and on-call fire department. Chief Balentine has been the Chief since 1985 and has managed an organization that has consistently been successful with a full membership roster. Listen to his advise on simple actions everyone can be taking right now.

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