“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.” – Bear Bryant Training: Healthcare Providers Guide to FF Physicals Standpipe Drill 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: Lieutenant Dies […]
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs Training: Exercises to prepare for NFPA 1582 fitness evaluation Ground Ladder Carry and Raise 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: Captain Suffers Sudden Cardiac Death During Physical Fitness Evaluation – Alabama – […]
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Theodore Roosevelt Training: Size-Up Drill Calling a Mayday! 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: Lieutenant Suffers Heart Attack During Fire Suppression Operations at Residential Fire and Dies Ten Days Later – Georgia – 2015 Volunteer […]
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. – Arnold Schwarzenegger Training: How much fire can the Water Can extinguish? The International First Responder Seatbelt Pledge 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: Career Fire Fighter Fatally Injured In Fall From Apparatus […]
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. – Clint Eastwood Training: 3 Exercises firefighters should do Friction Loss using the Hand Method 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: Lieutenant Suffers Sudden Cardiac Death at the Scene of a Structure Fire – South Carolina – […]
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. – Jiddu Krishnamurti Training: Rapid Intervention Team CPR 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: F2018-17 Apr […]
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. – Yehuda Berg Training: […]
Ego, or more precisely, defense of ego, is the source of most major organizational disfunctions. – L. David Marquet Training: Mass Casualty Incidents Fire Mass Casualty Incidents EMS 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: No NIOSH Reports Today – But there are LODD reports on FirefighterCloseCalls.com’s history page! 2006 An Assistant Chief Died from Trauma in Tennessee […]
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. – Sam Walton Training: Extreme Fire Behavior: Smoke Explosion Preventing Pulmonary Embolism after Surgery 5 Exercises Every Firefighter Should Do 6-Minutes for Safety LODD: A Volunteer Fire Fighter and Volunteer […]
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… […]
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