The Number Two Complaint About Fire Department Battalion Chiefs
My blog posts this month revolve around a conversation with a fire department captain who told me he had no interest in pursuing a promotion to battalion chief (BC). His…
The Number One Complaint About Fire Department Battalion Chiefs
The title of my January 11, 2023 blog post was Why Don’t You Want to Become a…? In that post, I wrote about a conversation with a fire department captain,…
Why Don’t You Want to Become a….?
Last month I was out of state teaching incident command, hazmat response tactics, and decision-making to a group consisting of firefighters, county health employees, and a police officer. I had…
The Big Mystery: Accountability
In December 2022, I visited the Yanks Air Museum1 at the Chino Airport in California. Low and behold, the Mystery Machine2 was sitting in the hanger amidst a large collection of aircraft.…