Despite the fact that I wrote this piece for Fire-Rescue Magazine last year, I’m pretty sure its content is still relevant as we ponder recent and not so recent events during Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/topics/usfa-reminds-you-that…. As I stated in comments to another blog by John Mitchell (www.firedaily.com) titled: “The Charleston 43” (http://www.firefighternation.com/profiles/blogs/the-charleston-43) […]
Calcium Anthropologists Warn of Effects of Summer Acceleration Unconfirmed fiction by: Tige R. Schmittendorf Originally posted: September 6, 2009 Editor’s Note: I know it’s Labor Day. I should have warned you sooner… One day while taking a requisite course towards my doctorate in calcium anthropology — the study of milkmen and their connection to mad […]
It’s been more than a month since my presentation at FDIC and my live Internet radio talk show on FirefighterNetcast from the show floor, but a lot of exciting things have happened since then. Feedback from my show about the importance of storytelling in the fire service with special guest Chief Tom Merrill was tremendous […]
Heading in to work as part of Command Staff for the Buffalo Marathon. Otherwise, I'd be running in it, for sure… # I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished (cont) http://tl.gd/1jc0pj # RT @usfire: RT @NFPA: Fire Prevention Week 2010 campaign was launched […]