Building a REMS team isn't optional anymore — it's how you keep your wildland firefighters alive when extraction goes sideways. And most departments wait until it's too late.

In this episode, John Hennessey — retired Air Force officer, former Booz Allen Hamilton program manager, and one of the architects of Dammeron Valley Fire Rescue — breaks down how to actually launch a Rapid Extraction Module Support (REMS) team without the budget, the bureaucracy, or the decade most departments think it takes.

What we cover:
- The "speed of need" framework that forces decisions instead of endless planning
- How to write a statement of need that gets grants funded
- Why cost-schedule-performance thinking from defense programs works for fire service
- Setting measurable response time targets — and proving you hit them
- Building a fire and EMS training pipeline when you can't hire certified people
- How Greg McKeown and Liz Wisemans "Multipliers" leadership model wins in volunteer fire departments
- How a "Volunteer Firefighters Needed" sign on a mailbox turned into one of Southern Utah's most operationally serious volunteer fire departments

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0:00 The Mailbox Sign That Started It
3:00 Air Force Roots And Booz Allen Lessons
8:00 Turning A Volunteer Crew Into A System
15:58 Multipliers Versus Oxygen Thieves
22:35 Cost Schedule Performance For Fire Rescue
26:23 Building Utah’s First REMS Team
30:58 Speed Of Need And Modern Gear