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Don’t Just Attend, Deploy: The Conference Commando Guide to Fire & EMS Conferences
I’m STILL a Fire Service Feminist!
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Sleep Deprivation: The Continuing Challenge for Fire and EMS
What I write about
Critical issues facing fire service leaders, today and tomorrow.
The job of old firefighters is to teach young firefighters how to become old firefighters.
- Recruitment and retention
- Diversity and inclusion
- Privilege in the fire service
- Post-traumatic stress and its impact on members
- Fire department leadership
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Successful Transformational Change in a Fire and EMS Department
How a focused team created a revenue-recovery program in six months, from scratch.
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About the author
Battalion Chief (Ret.) Robert Avsec
30+ years in the active fire service, the last 26 with the Chesterfield (Va.) Fire and EMS Department. I started this blog in 2012 because I love to write, and because I believe I have something to offer the current and future generations of firefighters and officers.
- NFA Executive Fire Officer
- MS, Executive Fire Service Leadership
- 10+ yrs NFA contract instructor
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