FE Volume 168 Issue 7

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Opening Up

I'm sure someone told you early in your career not to bring the job home with you: "It's better that they don't know what you're doing." Sure, many of us have brought home tales from the streets, but I'm sure we sugarcoat the stories for our loved ones.

Fire Service Career Firefighter Training

New System Helps to Prevent Gas Leaks

BY DANIEL P. SHERIDAN If gone unchecked, carbon monoxide (CO) and gas emergencies have the potential to cause a lot of death and destruction. When…

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

From Failure to Smoke Diver: A Four-Year Journey of Perseverance

After completing the Indiana Smoke Diver program (a sister course to the Georgia Smoke Diver course started by Indiana firefighters who had completed the Georgia program), I was commonly asked, "Did you think it was worth it?"

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Learning and Leading

You begin as a learner and then become a leader-teaching others. It's "the circle of fire service life." PATRICK J. CHAMPAGNE

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

More FE Volume 168 Issue 7

Size-Up: Why Can’t Johnny Read the Building?

Why some probies miss critical scene size-up information and some officers miss what is right in front of them. Frank Ricci and Sam Villani III

Firefighting Structural Firefighting

Strive to Be a “Type I” Officer

Type I officers are competent at their job skills and likable to coworkers, supervisors, and subordinates. HIDEKATSU KAJITANI

Fire Prevention Fire Safety

Developing Leaders for the Next Generation

Professional development should encompass education, training, experience, and self-development. DOUGLAS K. CLINE

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting

Leading Today’s Fire Service Youth: Using History to Understand Motivation

Although two qualities of today's youth-narcissism and entitlement-may not be conducive to the fire station or the fireground, their sense of civic duty and motivation are. JIM SILVERNAIL AND FRANK VISCUSO

Fire Department Leadership Firefighting