Inside the Lancashire Tactical Firefighting Summit: A Four-Part Series on Modern Firefighting.

In episode two, Station Officer Gerard Mann of Fire Rescue Victoria builds on Dan’s analysis by shifting the focus to how a fire service thinks strategically, tactically and culturally. Drawing on sixteen years across operations, training and doctrine development, Gerard lays out a simple but powerful framework that connects strategy, tactics, tasks and techniques. He explains why leadership alone can’t deliver excellence, why capability lives at task and technique level, and why modern services need a unified operational language if they want predictable performance under pressure.

Gerard also tackles the legal and ethical realities facing today’s fire services. Following the death of Firefighter Isabella Nash and Australia’s first operational manslaughter case, he explains why doctrine and training must be defensible, documented and aligned with real-world practice. From practitioner-written doctrine to bite-sized training modules and consistent instructor development, Gerard shows what an integrated, modern firefighting system actually looks like. This episode gives listeners the “how” behind building a service that can think and act as one.

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