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Code 3 Podcast: Mistakes rookie engineers make

Our host, Scott Orr, sits down with Capt. (Ret.) Jim Spell to discuss real-life strategies to avoid dangerous or embarrassing mistakes

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Sure, you passed the exam, and they handed you the certificate, but there’s a lot more you need to know as a rookie engineer, and you’ll learn it by messing up, mostly.

But lucky for you, Jim Spell is here to give you some tips now, before you make a dangerous or embarrassing mistake. He offers a dozen real-life strategies to avoid trouble.

Jim spent 33 years as a professional firefighter with Vail (Colo.) Fire & Emergency Services, the last 20 years as a captain, so he’s seen his share of the goof-ups that rookie engineers make.

Code 3 is hosted by award-winning journalist Scott Orr, who has covered the fire/EMS/police beat for most of his 30-plus year career in news. He’s worked around the country in both TV and print. Orr was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease over a decade ago, but that doesn’t stop him from interviewing fire service leaders on issues that concern firefighters around the nation.

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