Side Alpha with Chief Marc Bashoor

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• Fire Chief John Oates talks fire service data and his new role with the IPSDI

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  Simple ways fire departments can leverage technology and data, and how fire chiefs can use data to inform decisions

• Firefighter Jonathan Tate offers simple steps to healthier firehouse food

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  Tate, a DC Fire & EMS firefighter, founded Food on the Stove, a nonprofit that’s working to improve the health of firefighters

• Chief Dave Downey reflects on the Surfside condo collapse response efforts

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  Downey represented the State Fire Marshal’s Office at the incident to coordinate the state USAR response

• Firefighters need to move beyond the fear of defeatism for calling a mayday 'too early'

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  "How many times does it take for a chief to hear near-misses before they recognize there's a systemic problem?"

• Looking back at 2021: Unpacking the stories and trends affecting fire and EMS

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  Bashoor and Cebollero discuss staffing storages, apparatus and ambulance safety, the COVID-19 vaccines, ET3 and telehealth, the use of ketamine, and much more

• Dalan Zartman digs into fire operations involving electric vehicles and energy storage systems

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  Detailing the increasing need for firefighters to have the skills to tackle these incidents and breaking down the basics of fire operations

• Chief Reginald Freeman shares his cross-country move to join Oakland Fire

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  The chief speaks to the differences between Hartford and Oakland, and reflects on the five-year anniversary of Oakland's fatal Ghost Ship fire

• 'This isn't what I signed up for': Chief Bob Horton unpacks his provocative editorial

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  Horton reacts to some of the social media commentary elicited by the article, explaining why leaders must be honest about the realities of a fire service career

• FDNY Chief Frank Leeb talks training at 'The Rock' and how to market safety messages

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  Leeb serves as chief of the Fire Academy and chair of the department’s Contamination Reduction Workgroup

• ‘Are we really this childish?’ Reflecting on the ‘over-sexed culture’ station investigation in S.C.

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  While fire stations aren’t always sanctuaries of purity, they must be sanctuaries of public trust

• IAFC President Ken Stuebing talks vaccine mandates and top leadership tenets

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  The fire chief of the Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency in Canada shares what it's like to be the first international president to lead the IAFC in many years

• Keith Stakes details the newly expanded mission for UL's Fire Safety Research Institute

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  The battalion chief and research engineer also details some of the research currently underway at FSRI, including the Search & Size-up project

• Varone explores the top disciplinary issues that get fire officers in hot water

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  Fire service legal expert Curt Varone explains why fire service discipline is so different than discipline in "cubicle world"

• 'I didn't come here to make friends': Discipline in the fire service

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  Chief Bashoor takes a high-level look at the complex issues of discipline among the ranks

• Tulsa Chief Michael Baker talks firefighter morale, department change and lifelong learning

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  The chief shares his experience during his first year in the top spot and details how the department weathered the COVID-19 storm

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