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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
How standards can highlight station needs or deficiencies impacting your department’s delivery of service
Getting inside the teenage brain to engage new recruits
Digital tools may streamline operations, but they risk eroding the face-to-face dialogue and trust that build strong firehouse culture and leadership
FIRE CHIEF NEWS
- N.J. 5-alarm chemical factory fire ends with demolition of abandoned plant
- Wis. law helps fire departments buy soy-based, PFAS-free foam
- LODD: Fla. firefighter/paramedic suffers on-duty medical emergency
- 3 killed in N.Y. house fire as crews forced to evacuate
- Pa. fire chief, assistant chief killed in hit-and-run crash
- Va. city seeks public input as search begins for next fire chief
- Texas emergency management trainees tackle tornado response in capstone exercise
- Mich. township issues $13.2M in bonds for new fire station
- Photo of the Week: Mo. firefighters after knockdown
- Calif. FD tests sound wave system to fight fires without water
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WATCH & LEARN
FDNY Chief of Department John Esposito and other commanders went to the Palisades and Eaton fireground to speak with firefighters and bring back information to use in the city
Many new chiefs and fire officers struggle to find the right balance between micromanaging and letting go
Yakima County officials work to improve quality mental health resources and support for first responders and deal with stigmas
We tout our cancer prevention measures but then take turnout gear into schools, place weight rooms in engine bays and puff on cigars outside the station
Keys to resilient leadership
Delray Beach officials released the apartment fire dispatch audio and the 911 calls from when a ladder truck was struck by a Brightline passenger train
Delray’s vice mayor is questioning if firefighters might have had issues with their licenses after the chief sent out a memo on driver’s license requirements after the crash
Chief Caughey urges fire service leaders to focus on developing new firefighters’ critical thinking skills
Former Londonderry Fire Chief Bo Butler chose to give up his job in October 2024 instead of reducing firefighter staffing to save money
Grand Blanc Township Fire Chief Robert Burdette remembers when he was a teenager watching firefighters respond to calls