Empowerment through talent
Walk in to any firehouse across the United States, whether it be career, volunteer, on-call or combination and you will find one thing. The Fire Service is filled with people from all walks of life united together with the one common passion of firefighting. The talent pool we find ourselves immersed in is incredible. We all have the same basic training to become a firefighter and EMS provider, but we do not all have the same knowledge, experience, craft or skill that goes beyond the Fire Service.
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This episode is a follow up of the blog post “
In Episode 008, we welcome Capt. Dave “Red” McElroy to the show. He is the Training Captain for the Barnstead, NH Fire Department. Capt. McElroy started his fire service career in York, ME in 1983 and has since served on a number of other departments throughout New Hampshire. He has kept in contact with us in York since he moved on, and is still one of our greatest friends. Red brings solutions to common issues throughout the volunteer, on call and combination fire service in this episode. We also had the opportunity to answer another question from a fan of the show.
Today we had a great dialogue with our first guest for the podcast. Lt. Nick Hamel from the South Berwick, ME Fire Department sat down with Nick and Paul to discuss what makes the SBFD tick. Listen to Lt. Hamel’s thoughts on training schedules, department leadership and management. We also dove deep in to keeping the senior firefighter engaged with training.
There are many fire departments out there that are in a slow coverage area, which means less fires than a busier department. When we have less fires and less serious calls, it can be very easy for us to lose our sense of clarity when we respond and work at these incidents when they do happen. It is critical that we all know how to develop and maintain a clear mindset when we are faced with a challenging and stressful situation. In this podcast Nick goes over the four steps to developing a clear mindset.
Episode 005 is another solo episode with Nick. This quick message gives some insight on how to deal with haters and negativity that you may be exposed to.