Episode 319: How Garage Is Fixing the Broken Secondary Market for Fire Apparatus with Martin Hunt
The secondary market for fire apparatus runs on Facebook groups, newspaper classifieds, and local auctions. A small town in Texas budgeted $100,000 for a used truck sale. Garage got them $1.3 million....
14 Maj 46min
Episode 318: Training Is Lived, Not Lectured - VR Training for Firefighters with Evan Sitler-Bates and Drew MacNeil from XpertVR
Firefighters train all year, but most of it is death by PowerPoint. Evan Sitler-Bates and Drew MacNeil, co-founders of XpertVR, are building a different answer: immersive virtual reality simulations w...
7 Maj 34min
Episode 317: Bridging Firefighters and Engineers Through Leadership and Trust with Mark Reilly
What does leadership really look like when lives are on the line? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and...
30 Apr 12min
Episode 316: Why Mental Health Conversations Matter in the Fire Service with Max Cottingham
It’s okay to not be okay. The question is, who notices? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technolog...
23 Apr 21min
Episode 315: When Fire Protection Has No Rulebook with Alex Starkey
What happens when fire protection standards do not apply? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technol...
16 Apr 12min
Episode 314: Reducing Risk Before It Becomes Disaster with Emma Whale & Amanda Leck
What does risk really mean when the stakes are rising for entire communities? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire...
9 Apr 18min
Episode 313: Why First Responders Need One Global Language for Safety with Kurt Vollmacher
How do you prepare firefighters for risks that did not exist 10 years ago? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire se...
2 Apr 11min
Episode 312: From Close Call to Safer Fireground Operations with Matt Simmonds
What starts as a routine task on the fireground can quickly turn into a life threatening moment. For Matt Simmonds, that moment came while rolling hose after a fire, when a passing vehicle nearly stru...
26 Mars 10min
