Go shopping or browsing for IT devices and you will find a great deal of them tout the ability of their product to allow the user to multi-task. Their suggestion is that multi-tasking is a normal function of the human being and their product will help you do it better. This buzz-word has been around …
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The Mayday and the Burned Out Light Bulb
Fireground commanders never know when a mayday will occur at an emergency scene. The statistics tell us that it will be at the beginning of an incident, it will involve ride-out or overtime officers, combined with younger inexperienced firefighters or entire crews that don’t work together all that much. The focus quickly becomes the rescue …
Battalion Command and the Small Things
A couple of years ago, I started getting the daily paper delivered to my house. I stopped getting it before because the delivery person always threw it under the shrubs and I was tired of digging it out every day. It was a service issue, not a publication or content problem. So here I am …
The “Other” Situational Awareness
A few years ago, the term situational awareness wasn’t used or even recognized by the fire service. Today, you can ask just about every firefighter what it means, and they will be familiar with the term and the concept. The ability to determine one’s own safety and look ahead at protecting yourself is invaluable and …
Welcome to The Third Bugle
The Third Bugle is a blog and webpage dedicated to firefighters in battalion chief and company officer positions. There are a significant number of classes and books dedicated to these positions, but experience and sharing experiences can be very useful even to the most experienced firefighter. A shift with out a lesson learned is a …
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