Rob Wylie

Chief Concerns

Chief Rob Wylie is a 29-year fire service veteran who retired as fire chief of the Cottleville FPD in St. Charles County, Missouri. Wylie has served as a tactical medic and TEMS team leader with the St. Charles Regional SWAT team for the past 19 years. He is a certified instructor and teaches at the state, local and national level on leadership, counter-terrorism and TEMS operations. Wylie graduated from Lindenwood University, the University of Maryland Staff and Command School and the National Fire Academy’s EFO Program. Connect with Wylie on LinkedIn.

LATEST ARTICLES

Mass-Casualty Incidents

Rapid response: ‘Hope is not a plan’

Train your communities to identify, call out and respond to active threats

May 08, 2023 01:40 PM

Rob Wylie

Mass-Casualty Incidents

Rapid response: 5 ways to be prepared for an MCI in your community

Focusing on swift triage, mastering the basics and having a plan for exfiltrating the wounded are essential steps to immediate lifesaving measures

May 25, 2022 02:26 PM

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Enhanced training for emerging threats

Reality Training: Fire as a weapon

In this video, Chief Rob Wylie discusses the use of fire as a weapon due to its low-tech, high-yield results

August 14, 2020 05:24 PM

Rob Wylie

New officers, are you ready to run the show?

Reality Training: Tips for setting up incident command

January 20, 2020 07:25 PM

Rob Wylie

Fire Safety Codes

When school safety and fire safety collide

The fire service has the opportunity to adapt fire code enforcement to new and emerging threats, including active violence

May 25, 2018 08:54 AM

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National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

Consider citizens while implementing new NFPA standard

The proposed NFPA 3000 standard provides a framework to help shape the emergency response models of communities across the United States

January 12, 2018 10:10 AM

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Las Vegas Shooting

How can fire chiefs prepare citizens to be MCI responders

First Care training empowers citizens to stop the bleed and transition from hapless bystanders to lifesavers

October 03, 2017 11:20 AM

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Education & Training

Resilient communities train citizens to be first responders

Training civilians in lifesaving care of family, friends and neighbors can increase a community’s resilience to tornadoes, hurricanes and other natural disasters

July 09, 2017 01:50 PM

Rob Wylie

Education & Training

New firefighters require new approaches

Fire departments will need to take a lesson from corporate America’s playbook for getting the most from millennial employees

February 28, 2017 08:04 PM

Rob Wylie

Is your firehouse ready for Election Day?

Stations used as polling places need to be a welcoming, open and safe community gathering place that may need to become a secure fortress if something goes wrong; plan for both

November 07, 2016 10:23 AM

Rob Wylie