Today's episode is an thought exercise where we bring up the discussion of what we can do better on the topic of overall fitness, health, and wellness.

We often get caught up in the status quo when it comes to approaching firefighter fitness, health, and wellness - and in its in my humble opinion that it needs to be addressed and improved...

Thats why we have today's episode with Fernando Montes, the exercise physiologist for LACoFD, on the show today to have a discussion about why we are doing it wrong and what we can do to make it better for the federal Wildland service...

Before coming to the LACoFD Fire Department, Fernando worked in human performance for three decades - including work with top D1 college athletic programs and tactical athletic development for special operations forces. Now he is the go to guy to for developing new systems based off of real world data to improve the lives and performance of Wildland Firefighters in the field...

If you want to get ahold of Fernando, or want to inquire about a seminar, you can contact him here:

[email protected]

Hope you guys enjoy the show!

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Sponsors:

The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...

Mystery Ranch
Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Hotshot Brewery
Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation
Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

Mike McManus is an Assistant Fire Warden with the Idaho Department of Lands. He began his wildland career in 2008 and following the completion of his second season underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor. He returned to the wildland arena in 2012 after grinding through a year’s worth of rehab and missing a season. Mike's career has seen him fill the role of engine captain, squad boss, crew boss and burn boss. Mike credits the department with taking a chance on him and affording him the opportunity to get back into wildland fire. 

Mike, as well as other fire managers, are right in the middle of their seasonal hiring and department also has a few permanent positions open. So listen up for those of you still looking for a place to fight fire during the 2020 season and you might just find something that fits!

You can find Mike here:

Personal Instagram: @four_fifths_ca

Personal Twitter: @bombero_mike

Here's where you can find some more info on the IDL:

Job Links:  https://www.idl.idaho.gov/about-us/jobs/ Also the IDL Website.

IDL Twitter:@IdahoLands 

IDL Facebook: @IDLFireInfo

Enjoy!

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Sponsors:

The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...

Mystery Ranch
Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Hotshot Brewery
Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation
Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

Come join Clay Hess for a water filter build for communities affected by disaster or that do not have access to clean water! These filters will provide clean, safe drinking water for 10 people for 10 years!

This is an awesome opportunity to give back and pay it forward, here's the details:

Cheyanne Filter Build Event with Wine To Water:

March 21st from 6 to 9pm
710 South Lions Park Drive,
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Tickets are available here: https://give.winetowater.org/event/cheyenne-filter-build/e271124

A $50 dollar donation gets you in the door and includes - Wine tasting, snacks, live music, and a key note speaker!

If you guys can't make it, that's okay... You can still donate $50 bucks for the cost of building a filter!

Thanks guys!

Clay Hess is a Wildland Firefighter in the summer, and in the off season, he travels and provides systems to make clean drinking water to communities effected by disaster and that do not have access to clean water...

Clay is a good dude, who is passionate about his work due to the fact that every 90sec a child 5 and under dies from a water related illness...

Clay states:

"There have been many "ripples" in my life and I believe that each one is responsible for my finding Wine To Water. When I'm not fighting fires as a Wildland Firefighter I'm committed to raising money to fight the world water crisis and traveling with Wine To Water to Nepal and the Dominican Republic to dig wells and build water pumps and filters. Wine To Water is an incredible organization that is committed to support life and dignity for all through the power of clean water. Clean water is powerful and life changing, not only for those helped, but for those who help. My life has been forever changed."

Im all about good causes, and paying it forward - Keep up the good work, Clay!

Clay can be found here:

Instagram:

@winetowater

@water_is_everything_ 

Facebook 

Cheyenne filter build

Ticket link for build- https://give.winetowater.org/event/cheyenne-filter-build/e271124

Enjoy...

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Sponsors:

The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...

Mystery Ranch
Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Hotshot Brewery
Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation
Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

Australia has experienced a catastrophic and very tragic wildland fire season... In order to help combat these blazes across the country, the United States and Australia teamed up to send some of our fire personnel down to help.

Justing Gude is one of those folks!

Justine has been a crew member on Texas Canyon Interagency Hotshot Crew for 5 years and has had the unique opportunity to be apart of International firefighting efforts in Australia...

Today on the show, Justine swings by to share her experience while in Australia and give some advice to future rounds of personnel heading down to Australia...

You can find Justine on Instagram if you guys and girls have any questions at @j_justine...

https://www.instagram.com/j_justjustine/

Enjoy!

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New audio recording software! Lemme know what you think!
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Sponsors:

The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...

Mystery Ranch
Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Hotshot Brewery
Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation
Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

Today on the show, Kendal Ford "aka Fordy" drops in and gives us the skinny on running his side gig - KFord Custom Woodworks...

You guys know i'm a huge advocate for creating a side gig, paying it forward, and doing rad stuff in your spare time and Kendal does just that... You've probably seen his work on Instagram, like the incredible memorial plaque for Frank Esposito from Big Bear Hotshots...

If you guys are looking for some badass woodwork, definitely hit up Kendal's shop - Its Firefighter owned and operated, built to last, high quality, and there is no job too big or too small!

Heres where you can find him:

IG: @kford_woodworks

Email: [email protected]

Enjoy!

Sponsors:

The Anchor Point Podcast is supported by the following wonderful folks...

Mystery Ranch
Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Hotshot Brewery
Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation
Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

The future is now!

Today on the show Simon Weibel stops by and shares some pretty rad information on Drone Amplified and the IGNIS 2 UAS/PSD system!

Simon has been around the game for a bit, here's a little bio on him:

Simon Weibel started fire right out of High School with Grayback Forestry Inc. on their Type 2 IA crew. After that I got my EMT-B certification and did three seasons with Eldorado IHC. After a break of 4 years from fire, where I got my degree and worked in business development, I decided I had to come back and currently am working for Oregon Department of Forestry as a Forest Officer. In ODF I got introduced to drones being used in fire and decided I needed to get into that and help push it forward, which led me to working with Drone Amplified and the IGNIS firing system. Currently I work in the off season as the west coast representative for the company, and help push sales, training development, and program integration for our system, the IGNIS.

If anyone wants to get in contact with questions, or to set up a demonstration, they can contact me phone or email:

541 500 7128

[email protected]

or through our website or instagram:

droneamplified.com

@droneamplified on IG

Hope all is well - Enjoy!

Sponsors:

Need badass packs? Then look no further than Mystery Ranch!
https://www.mysteryranch.com

Wanna pick up our Anchor Point Podcast merch or need killer coffee? Hit up Hotshot Brewery!!!
https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

Wanna get some history and knowledge on Wildland Fire? Hit up The Smokey Generation!
http://wildfire-experience.org

And, as always, support this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org

Happy holidays from the Wildland Firefighter Foundation!

Wildland Firefighter Foundation’s main focus is to help families of firefighters killed in the line of duty and to assist injured firefighters and their families. We honor and acknowledge past, present, and future members of the wildland firefighting community, and partner with private and interagency organizations to bring recognition to wildland firefighters.

The Foundation came together as a group of volunteers in 1994, shortly after the Storm King tragedy. With dedication and lots of volunteer work, plans were developed for a national monument to honor firefighters, a dream that was realized in May 2000. The Wildland Firefighter Foundation was officially formed in the spring of 1999. Our board members realized that there was a great need to have emergency support services for the families of fallen firefighters.

Be sure to check out their website and re-up your 52 club membership!

The WFF --> https://wffoundation.org/52-club/

Thank you everyone for making The Anchor Point Podcast a huge success in such a short time, and a Huge thank you to all of our sponsors: Hotshot Brewery, The Smokey Generation, and Mystery Ranch!

We will be taking a little hiatus over the holidays to regroup and spend time with our family - We will see you again in the new year!

Ladies and gentlemen, today on the show, I have Kyoul Cha - This dude is one hell of a firefighter, mentor, and athlete!

He has been fighting fire since 2004 with Globe IHC and Payson Helitack. Soon after that, he got into the world of Spartan racing in 2015 through2018...

After his stint with Spartan, he decided to pay it forward by creating his own insanity fueled endurance program with Firefighter Fit Endurance!

Kyoul Says:

"FirefighterFit Endurance was created to address the physical fitness  
disconnect found inbetween physical fitness testing and real world  
application in the field of wildland fire and other first responder  
fields. Secondary objectives are: To teach leadership and teamwork to  
corporate and public entities, and to bridge the gap of understandeing  
between the general public and wildland fire by offering the public  
some of the experiences and hardships that wildland firefighters  
endure through the use of endurance-style events; To provide a place  
where retired firefighters and off duty firefighters can find  
meaningful work and purpose in a related field to fill the absence of  
firefighting."

Pretty fricken awesome!

Be sure to check his program out with these links:

https://firefighterfitendurance.com

https://3lmnz.com

https://www.facebook.com/FirefighterFIT/

https://www.facebook.com/3echoOCR/

https://www.instagram.com/firefighterfit_endurance/?hl=en

Hope you enjoy!

Be sure to hit him up with any questions!

Sponsors:

Hotshot Brewery --> https://www.instagram.com/firefighterfit_endurance/?hl=en

The Smokey Generation --> https://www.instagram.com/firefighterfit_endurance/?hl=en

And, as always, please support the Wildland Firefighter Foundation:

https://wffoundation.org

Some things will always baffle me - like taking a multi-mission capable helicopter program and throwing it in the trash can. This short sighted decision was made after 3 back, to back, to back insane fire seasons...

Today on the show - We have Adam Clyne, a spotter from the Alberta Rappellers on the show to share how we can save this valuable program...

Alberta's wildfire rappel program has been axed by the provincial government in order to cut cost, yet the 23 million dollar price tag of the savings doesn't make any sense compared to the potential of saving hundreds of millions of dollars by stopping small fires before they go big...

The "RAP" program has been in place for 36 years, and employs 63 firefighters every fire season, not including the support staff or pilots for these programs. The overall objective for the "RAP" crews is to insert firefighters into the fire via helicopter rappel and aggressively attack small fires soon after detection to keep the fires from growing into large, catastrophic fires... In addition to this, they provide: Fireline emergency medical services, search and rescue operations, and hazardous fuels reduction across the entire province of Alberta...

If you want to support the Alberta RAP program, check out these sites:

Change.org:

https://www.change.org/p/the-government-of-alberta-urge-the-albertan-government-to-roll-back-cuts-to-wildfire-funding

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2554289287998862/about/

Also feel free to hit up Adam Clyne on Instagram..

Thanks for listening, everyone... Lets help our brothers out!

SPONSORS:

Hotshot Brewery:

https://www.hotshotbrewing.com

The Smokey Generation:

http://thesmokeygeneration.com

Merch:

https://www.hotshotbrewing.com/collections/tapp

And always, please consider donating to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation!

https://wffoundation.org