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This week Nick Hilton and Paul Balentine sit down with Chief Chris Balentine of the York, Maine Fire Department and talk about a dying tradition. Fire Musters in New England were once a huge deal. Every weekend members from all over the region would travel to musters and compete for trophies. Today, there are very few of these left.

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Our podcast launched on August 13th, 2018. We have grown a bit since then by increasing our team, releasing an episode each week and bringing on guests to the show. What do we have planned for the next year? With new technology and a better understanding of what it takes to podcast, we have big ideas. But why do we do this? What is the meaning of Brotherhood Academy Radio? Listen to this episode!

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This week’s episode focuses on five things we should all be focusing on to retain the members that we already have. We focus a lot on recruitment, but often forget that we need to retain the members we already have to grow the overall experience level of our membership. With Leadership, Morale, Empowerment, Self-Starters and Developing Solutions, we believe we can improve overall retention efforts within all fire departments.

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This week we sat down with Firefighter/Photographer AJ St. Hilaire to discuss how fire ground photography is important for your fire department. AJ has been taking photos at fire scenes since he was 12 years old, following in his father’s foot steps. Listen as we talk about memorable scenes he has photographed, what benefits your department can gain from having a photographer and how to show respect to victims and property owners.

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This week’s episode focuses on the importance of developing a driver training program, how to develop the program and how to select your driver trainees. The BAR Podcast has a free downloadable and editable driver training packet available to you on the website. We encourage you to download it, customize it and implement the packet into your program. You can download it at this link. http://brotherhoodacademyradio.com/index.php/2018/08/26/driver-training-packet/

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This week’s episode is a short one, with Nick Hilton on the mic talking about how we are hurting the fire service through certain social media behaviors. There are many ways to use social media to inspire and positively impact the fire service and brotherhood. It seems though that going the other direction is becoming a popular thing.

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This week we got the entire team back together. We did some catching up, went off topic a little bit, but focuses mostly on a discussion that is much needed in the fire service. How we set the tone on the radio, on the fire scene and at the fire station will influence the composure of the entire group. Listen as we discuss certain situations we have each been in and how we were able to control our emotions and remain calm and in control of ourselves.

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This week Nick Hilton and Nick Hamel sit down with FF Rick “Father Time” Chute again and discuss the importance of keeping training exciting. We must always be coming up with new, engaging training topics and evolutions to prevent things from becoming stale. If we have boring training we risk losing members. We want to encourage our members to train in order for them to perform the best that they can on the fire scene.

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This week Nick Hilton and Nick Hamel sat down with our guest FF. Rick Chute. Rick is a Firefighter on the South Berwick, Maine Fire Department and joined the fire service when he was in his 50’s. In this episode we talk about the benefits of recruiting older people, how life experience plays a role and how younger people and older folks can balance each other out.

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This episode Nick Hilton sits down with his wife Jennifer Hilton and they discuss what to expect when stepping into a relationship with a volunteer or on-call firefighter. Life is different in our world and many things can become challenging. The key thing we talk about the most is communication among both individuals. Listen in as Jennifer gives her views and advice.

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