Perspectives on Leadership: Ric Jorge, Part 2
Stephen Shaw resumes his conversation with Rick Jorge about firefighter resiliency and Ric's story.
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Podcast: The Training Officer: Ric Jorge
Dave McGlynn talks with Ric Jorge about PTSD in the fire service and the importance of training your people on it.
Live at FDIC: Perspectives on Leadership
Host Stephen Shaw speaks with guest Ric Jorge live from the floor of FDIC International 2023.
Podcast: Sons of the Flag: Combating Mediocrity
Members of the Sons of the Flag discuss the group's mission to help burn survivors.
More Ric Jorge
Training Minutes: SCBA Confidence
In this Training Minutes video on firefighter
resiliency, Ric Jorge enumerates the benefits of SCBA confidence
courses and how this type of evolution integrates various aspects of the
firefighter resiliency concepts from previous videos.
Proper Breathing for the Proper Response
There are several quality breathing techniques you can employ at your next response that are improvements over what you learned at the academy.
Training Minutes: Engaging the Senses During Training
In this Training Minutes video, Ric Jorge and company demonstrate ways to immerse students in the realities of the fireground.
Training Minutes: Extending Your Air
In this firefighter training video,
Ric Jorge and company demonstrate a technique to increase a
firefighter's chance of surviving a low-air situation during a Mayday.
Training Minutes: Breathing Techniques
In this Training Minutes video, Ric Jorge reviews three different techniques for helping firefighters control their breathing during stressful situations.
Ric Jorge: Do You Know the ‘Monster Within?’
Ric Jorge discusses that training scars are very real, and there is a good chance they will turn into monsters” (The Monster Within) if left untreated. Just as in the case of any other exposure to tragedy, it has a side effect; the name of that side effect is PTSD.
Why I Teach: Ric Jorge
Quite by accident, Ric Jorge discovered techniques that worked extremely well to keep anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and sleeplessness in check. Now he wants to share those techniques with other fire service members.
Training Minutes: Ric Jorge on Roof Safety
In this firefighter training video, Ric Jorge and company demonstrate a method for securing viable working space when dealing with "steep, slippery, or sketchy" roof areas.