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Often you will find yourself saying, especially if you’re an officer, “put this, there! “ A great way to do this, whether you’re working an MCI, an extrication, a technical rescue, or a tactical operation, is by using Tactical Tarps. In this episode, we show you how.

  Emergency Services Fitness: Get Fit to Save Lives   Goal:  To ensure your safety and ability to perform your job in emergency services: a physically taxing profession.   Although we’re in the profession of protecting and helping the public, we too often neglect ourselves and our bodies. In order to provide the services we’re sworn to provide to the ...

The Easiest Way to be a Life Saver Goal: To recognize the opportunities that arise in emergency services to provide true care for others, especially when it seems like a waste of your training and expertise to do so. “You often help your patients the most when you think you’re doing the least.”  This advice was given to me as ...

  Communications is a critical factor in every aspect of emergency services. GOAL: Improve radio communications during emergency scene operations.  No one could say that good communications is important for firefighting, but not law enforcement, EMS or disaster response. Likewise, as complex as emergency commutation networks get (analog / digital / repeaters / encrypted / trunked systems / tin-cans w/strings) there ...

More Information on using moulage in emergency services education.

RescueDigest Podcast Episode 1 The RescueDigest Audio Podcast brings you news, interviews and tips you can use to make your life in emergency services a little easier and help you in your job protecting the members of your community.   [powerpress] In this episode, Teaching alternatives to Lecture, Using moulage to stimulate simulations and an interview with the founders of ...

Volunteering From Local to Global: How to Take your Emergency Services Training on the Road Goal:  To apply your Emergency Services Training and experience to help people, volunteering in different locations around the world. Last year I had the amazing pleasure of travelling to the Zulu Natal in South Africa.  On the way there I spent one day and one ...

How teaching others can teach you. You know it. You are pretty darn good at what you do.  In every aspect of your job you strive for excellence and 9 times out of 10, you reach it. Yet there are still a couple of things you have a hard time mastering.  Maybe there’s even one BIG thing, that one thing ...