Ross serves as a Battalion Chief with the Arlington Heights (IL) Fire Department. Ross is a Squad Leader with  Illinois Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 and formerly the technical and training coordinator for the MABAS Division 1 technical rescue team.  Ross has been working in the rope and specialty rescue arena for the past 15 years, currently is the Special Projects Manager and a SPRAT Level 3 Rope Access Supervisor with Elevated Safety.  Ross enjoys spending time with his family, Crossfit and competing in Ironman triathlons and other endurance events.  He has a master’s degree in emergency services management and a bachelor’s in Fire Service Management and is a certified. Urban Search and Rescue Specialist through the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service.

Huge thank you to our sponsors as always - Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

We sit down with an absolute stud. Matt is a company officer with the North Metro (CO) Fire Department.

He's also a winner of the Titan Games and was the runner up in the Crossfit Games, only having finished behind four time winner Rich Froning.

We talk about fitness, nutrition, department standards, and much more.

Please check out his business - TrainFTW - https://www.trainftw.com/

We hop you enjoy the show!

As always, a big thank you to our sponsors - Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

We sit down with one of the strongest ladies we've ever met. Melanie had to endure a very difficult situation of losing her husband Brad Clark as a LODD on October 11, 2018.

Since this tragedy she has fought vehemently to ensure there are more strict move over laws.

She was instrumental in getting Brad on a license plate for Virginia, which is now on thousands of cars.

Please listen and learn from her story.

Thank you Melanie, we appreciate you, your strength, and your love for Brad and the fire service.

We're starting something a little new! Jay Bonnifield and Nick Papa will be doing a "Spin off" show.

Give the show a listen to see what they'll be up to!

Enjoy!

A great episode with our good friend Bill Carey. We dive into Bill's history, what he's currently doing, and many other topics.

Bill manages a website focusing on Data on firefighter line of duty deaths.

See here - https://data-not-drama.com/

Huge thank you to our sponsors, Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

We hope you enjoy the show!

We sit down with a great guest from across the pond and have a great conversation.

We discuss:

His fire service journey.

What goes into designing and building live fire training facilities and live fire training.

His new multi-part webinar series called Standard Operating Guideline - Residential Interior Operations.

Fire Dynamics, specifically attack, how speed is typically more important than flow, that prior to knockdown our baseline should be anti-ventilation, how the stairs are the most important part of any room, and his intrigue and investigation into Ultra High Pressure Attack.

Lastly, training!

You can find out more about Lars at his website here - https://swedishfirenerd.com/

A huge shout out to our sponsors as always!

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We sit down with our good friend Dustin to talk about his career, passion, family, and much more.

Dustin is an excellent resource when it comes to Search and Rescue Operations.

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did!

Thank you to our sponsors, Vanguard Safety Wear, Key Hose, and Elkhart Brass.

We sit down with an excellent man. Todd Edwards (Atlanta Fire - Ret.). We talk about training, career, spouses, and much more.

We hope you enjoy getting to know Todd like we do.

Thanks to our sponsors, Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

We sit down with our buddy Preston from the Relentless Rejects podcast. We talk about leadership, family, some articles he has written, and more!

We hope you enjoy the show!

A huge thank you to our sponsors: Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

We sit down with the Firefighter Rescue Survey for a second time. we discuss what has been happening with the survey to mostly include data collection. Near the end we touch on some tactics as well.

You can check them out here - www.firefighterrescuesurvey.com

Also, a huge shoutout to our sponsors - Elkhart Brass, Key Hose, and Vanguard Safety Wear.

Lastly... Thank you to Dinges Fire Company for supporting our tactical tribute which is allowing us to donate money to the Gary Sinise Foundation.