Thermal Runaway: Leading Fire Command Under Pressure
If you’ve spent any appreciable time in emergency services, you already know that thermal runaway is testing the fire service’s rhythm like nothing has in a generation. Tactics evolve, gear improves, and building construction shifts. However, the fundamentals of how we attack a problem tend to stay grounded in proven science. Every once in a […]
Under Pressure: What It Takes to Lead a Culture Where Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
First responder mental health is not a soft topic. It is a command accountability issue. And in four decades of fire service and military experience I have watched more people quietly fall apart than I have watched people ask for help. I was one of them. Not in the way you might picture it. I […]
Under Pressure: PFAS, Firefighter Health, and the Leadership Obligation to Protect Your People
PFAS firefighter health risk is no longer a future concern. I attended the FIERO PPE Symposium in Greenville, South Carolina earlier this year, and for three days I sat in rooms where the researchers studying turnout gear, the manufacturers building it, and the firefighters wearing it were all part of the same conversation. What I […]
Leadership Under Pressure: What Business Leaders Can Learn from Technical Rescue
Leadership under pressure separates the leaders who build high-performing teams from the ones who accidentally dismantle them. I recently published an article in Firehouse Magazine about the strategic leadership required to run a successful technical rescue operation, the kind of incident where someone is trapped in a collapsed trench, or suspended from a high-angle rope, […]