FAAT by the Fire - Unfiltered!

So many of the groups and institutions that we have worked with feel like they are ready for any event that they may experience - they have trained, written plans, run exercises, and trained some more.  

But the one area that we see as lacking time and again is planning for consequence management.  The plans that many have written tend to be tactical in nature.  The 'full scale active shooter' exercise tends to be a L...

Whole Community - 

What is it and why does it matter?  

Understanding our audience, or customers is vital in being sable to provide a service to them.  Whether that service is community safety and protection, EMS, or LE, we need to know our base and how best to communicate with them.  This could mean anything from understanding that we need to communicate differently with different groups (Gen X/Y vs. our parents)...

A.I.

Good or bad?  

As technology and AI begins to creep into all segments of everyday activities, have you welcomed it?  Or do you avoid it the best that you can?

In Part 1 of this two part episode, we look at how AI and technology effects what we do as emergency responders and some of the challenges that we have encountered.  

We are joined by Wes Jones, a long time emergency manager and 911 Center Director, who is now...

Continuing the Episode 5 discussion on technological advances, and more specifically A.I., we are talking with Wes Jones of Aurelian and the products that they have developed to support the work of PSAP's and dispatch centers. 

Aurelian has developed technology solutions that help support telecommunicators and assist with information gathering.   Aurelian's solution integrate within current workflows to seamlessly support ...

In honor of Memorial Day, and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, we look at the importance of realizing the stress that comes hand in hand with working, or loving someone that works, in emergency services.  Understanding the stresses of the job, both mental and physical, and the effects that they have on both responder health and safety, as well as their relationships with families and loved ones is a part of the job...

Tonight, we continue the discussion of responder self care and well being with a discussion of some of the effects of the bad crap we do and what it does to our bodies...

While more specific to firefighting due to the extremes that we face, the nutritional aspects also effect long-term, high stress environments such as disaster response withing emergency management, sleep deprivation due to rotating schedules or emergency call-outs ...

As we finish up our conversation on mental and physical well being - we shift the focus to who should be monitoring our moods and our emotional health?  Who knows us best, and sees us at our worst?  We need to track each other, and we need to depend on and rely on our brothers...

We then talk about a post made by the wife of a LEO, and the emotions that they experience every time their loved one walks out the door.  W...

Tonight we're going to get back to the emergency manager roots a little bit. We're going to talk about emergency managers - born or made? 

The discussion that's out there - what is the background that allows for success in  emergency management? Does it come from years as a traditional first responders?  A business background?  Do you  learn all you need to know in one of the new university emergency managem...