Combat Ready Fire Training Show

Combat Ready Fire Training Show episodes:

• 05.25.2024

  Building a Combat Ready Engine Company

  What makes an engine company Combat Ready? Nick Martin, BC Frank Malta (Frederick County), Capt. Sean Donovan (Frederick County), FF Tim McCloskey (Horry County Fire and Rescue) and Capt. Spencer White (Salisbury, NC) answer this question as they talk about...

  
• 04.26.2024

  IC vs SOG Driven Firegrounds - Challenges and Tips

  Nick Martin, Frank Malta, Kevin Burges, and Sean Donovan discuss the two primary fireground command models: Incident Command Driven vs. Predetermined Assignment (SOG Driven) fireground command. They get into challenges and tips for operating in both environments, and how each...

  
• 04.04.2024

  Real Fireground Accountability - Avoidable Missteps When Tracking Firefighters & Companies

  Nick Martin, Floyd Wise, and Kevin Burges discuss common missteps and misunderstandings about organizing the fireground and accounting for our members.   This is one you won't want to miss if your department has ever struggled to establish and maintain control...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Effective Firefighter Search Techniques & Initial Operations of an Aggressive Truck Company

  We're talking with seasoned truck company officers, Bill Cunningham and Chris Ford out of Columbia, SC, and Drew Evans with DCFD. We'll get into search techniques and tactics, some victim rescue stories, and searching survivable spaces.

  
• 12.23.2023

  Building Motivated Firefighters from the Ground Up - Tips & Concepts from the FCFR Recruit School

  We'll be talking with Frederick County Fire & Rescue's Battalion Chief Frank Malta and Captain Sean Donovan about their top notch Recruit Training Academy. If you follow Chief Malta (@firefightnchief) on Instagram - you've no doubt seen this hardcore recruit...

  
• 11.25.2023

  Search Rope Operations - Firefighter Workflows and Lessons Learned from the Fireground

  When should you deploy a SEARCH ROPE? What is it used for? What are the best techniques for utilizing it?

  
• 10.10.2023

  The Aggressive Truck Company - building culture from the bottom up

  How do you build a #CombatReady culture in your company/department?

  
• 08.23.2023

  The “Firefighter’s Chief” and Why Good Command Matters at EVERY fire

  On this podcast we’ll dive into why good command matters on EVERY fire. The thing is, not everyone understands this. Some people tend to think that command doesn't matter - at all, and some think it only matters on "the...

  
• 10.26.2021

  What's your department's ventilation culture?

  We'll be diving into ventilation practices and cultures. Nick will be joined by Captains Bill Cunningham and Chris Ford from the Columbia, SC Fire Department, to talk about how departments tend to ventilate very differently based on the truck company...

  
• 07.16.2021

  First due, people trapped!

  This month's dicsusion will center around fires in residential structures with reports of people trapped. We'll essential considerations and our thoughts on the inital operations of the first arriving engine, truck, and chief. We'll talk not only about what to...

  
• 04.22.2021

  Vertical Ventilation - Decision-making, Tactics, & Equipment

  This month's conversation focused on the outside truck company, particularly vertical ventilation. We talked about when and why we go to the roof, ventilation to improve conditions or to stop extension, roof tactics & considerations, and our preferences on setup...

  
• 04.05.2021

  Implementing the Combat Ready Mentality

  The most frequent question we get surrounds - "how do I do that in my department", "what about this guy" or similar. We'll be talking about the factors that commonly make people resistant to change and resistant to being Combat Ready,...

  
• 01.28.2021

  Fire's in multi-story MFD's - command & inside truck work

  Join Floyd Wise (battalion chief, Harrisburg Bureau of Fire) and I for a dynamic conversation on this challenging fire scenario. We'll be talking about fires in residential buildings 3+ stories in height. Fires at these buildings often come with one or...

  
• 08.08.2020

  Live Q&A May 30 with BC Floyd Wise

  This time we will have my friend and co-instrcutor, Floyd Wise. Floyd is a 20-year veteran of the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire in PA and is presently a battalion chief. We'll be talking about some commercial fire scenarios and tactics...