Podcast

As first responders, you all know first hand how many devastating and life changing accidents befall countless people, many of them children, every day.

A Fire Medic Perspective: The top five things that Legal Counsel  wants Emergency Responders to know. Rom Duckworth and Allison Bloom discuss how we may not know what we need to know to stay on the right side of the law and sometimes what we THINK we know can get us into more trouble than what we don’t. Our guest today is ...

A Fire Medic Perspective: Delivering Customer Service with Lights and Sirens. Rom Duckworth discusses how a culture of customer service can work in the real-world with retired Battalion Chief (and prolific author) Rob Avsec.

A Fire Medic Perspective: A Chief’s Challenges of Change with retired (but still incredibly active) Chief Dennis Rubin, formerly serving as Chief of Washington DC, Atalanta, GA, Norfolk, VA, and Dothan, AL Fire Departments.  

Rom Duckworth speaks with Dan Limmer about What we need to know about the EMS education transition from old standards to new ones, how to experience providers get up to speed, the difference between a refresher and the transition, and the keys to teaching critical thinking to students.

Rom Duckworth speaks with Dave Statter about first due videos, the outsider perspective of the fire service, the echo chamber effect, the videos he won’t show, and the answer to the question “When Has THAT Ever Happened in the Fire Service?”

In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”

Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS advocate and Redding, CT Police Chief Doug Fuchs to discuss police, fire and EMS working together, local success and failures, how they’re representative of services across the country and how collaboration impacts safety and situational awareness.