This is our follow up from #308 - the second part episode with Dave O'Neill MBE. Dave retired from London Fire Brigade as AC of Special Projects in October of 2023 following an incredible career spanning 3 decades in the UK Fire & Rescue Servic

#309 Debrief: The Smithfield Market Fire January 23rd 1958

12 days ago 38m 43s

In the early hours of Thursday 23rd January 1958, local firefighters arrived at the Smithfield Meat Market. By the time the blaze was finally contained, days later, two members of the London Fire Brigade were dead and a further twenty-six firef

#308 The World of Search & Rescue with Dave O'Neill MBE Part 1 of 2

14 days ago 1h 19m

Dave O'Neill MBE retired from London Fire Brigade as AC of Special Projects in October of 2023 following an incredible career spanning 3 decades in the UK Fire & Rescue Service. In the 2021 New Years Honours he was awarded an MBE for mastermind

#307 Incident Command Development Team at WFS 2024

21 days ago 1h

This episode was recorded at the 22nd annual Woman In The Fire Service with the Incident command team leading on the multi incident scenarios and developing firefighters and commanders. Women in the Fire Service UK (WFS) was set up in the 1990s

The Diabetes Epidemic & How its affecting first responders with Kate Walker

23 days ago 50m 27s

10 June to Sunday 16 June is National Diabetes Week - Type 2 diabetes is a national health emergency in the UK. For every 1,000 employees, 82 have diabetes, 20 of these do not know they have the condition – the majority of people have no sympto

Siobhan AKA The Fire Mum at WFS 2024

26 days ago 26m 2s

Siobhan is a 38 year old mother of 2 and more recently a firefighter in London Fire Brigade. Whilst going through her application process she realised there was no one explicitly sharing their journey through the training process in the fire se

#306 TELSTAR HOUSE DEBRIEF - LONDON 2003 with Chris Westfield

28 days ago 3h 22m

Chris Westfield started his Fire service career in 2003 whereby within the same year he was involved in a near death experience operationally at what became known as the TELSTAR HOUSE fire.A 20 Pump High-rise Fire; Telstar House was located on

#305 Welsh Firefighter Challenge Event Debrief 2024

Jun 5th, 2024 52m 16s

The Welsh Firefighter Challenge is a regional sporting event run alongside The British Firefighter Challenge. It is for both serving and retired firefighters.Held annually, the Welsh Firefighter Challenge is a set of gruelling physical and ment

#304 Manchester Arena Bombing Debrief & lessons learned with John Fletcher

Jun 3rd, 2024 3h 2m

At just after 22:30hrs on Monday 22nd May 2017, a suicide bomber detonated an improvised device at the Manchester Arena in the UK where around 14,000 people, mainly teenagers and family, had travelled from across the UK to attend the concert o

Bonus Episode: It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - An adventure with Daisy Byron & Clare Fletcher from Women Wanderers 999

May 30th, 2024 43m 8s

On this Bonus episode we joined Daisy Byron, Clare Fletcher & 160+ first responders from 31 fire and rescue services across the UK for an adventure in the peak district. hear about how this whole event came about and how to get involved yoursel

#303 Andy Starnes Understanding Thermal Imagery, Your Leadership Style & the key to survive the fire service

May 27th, 2024 1h 59m

Andy Starnes joined the Fire Service in 1991. Serving 12 years as a firefighter & then Captain on an Engine Company before being assigned to Battalion Chief in a busy Metropolitan area in the United States. He retired in 2023 after 25 years.And

Lancashire IFE CPD 6 of 6 Closing Round Table Discussion

May 25th, 2024 1h 9m

This mini series of 6 episodes comes from an event attended by the podcast in 2024 hosted by Lancashire Fire & Rescue and it was an IFE CPD event focussed on Structural firefighting & Tactical Ventilation lead by John McDonough & Karel Lambert.

Lancashire IFE CPD 5 of 6 Knowing the spread with John McDonough

May 23rd, 2024 1h 23m

Lancashire IFE CPD 4 of 6 Three kinds of fire with Karel Lambert

May 21st, 2024 1h

#302 That HYROX Firefighter - Andy Watt's Challenge in aid of Maggie's Cancer Centres & Macmillan

May 20th, 2024 57m 32s

Andy Watt is an operational firefighter i the UK and in may of 2024 In aid of Maggie's Cancer Centres and Macmillan, Andy took on his 7th HYROX wearing full firefighter PPE including SCBA set. After weeks of tough training, Watt smashed the cou

Lancashire IFE CPD 3 of 6 Rules for Leadership with Karel Lambert

May 19th, 2024 45m 18s

Lancashire IFE CPD 2 of 6 the Non Negotiables with John McDonough

May 17th, 2024 1h 19m

Lancashire IFE CPD 1 of 6 Structural Firefighting & Tactical Ventilation with John McDonough & Karel Lambert

May 15th, 2024 43m 38s

#301 Leadership & The Impact we have on others with Carl Boasman

May 13th, 2024 2h 9m

After 31 years’ service, upon retirement from the Fire and Rescue Service in October 2023, Carl started providing organisational and leadership development, coaching and mentoring support. Carl joined North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service as

#300 How to get the best people in the right roles in the fire service with Occupational Psychologist Hannah Valance

May 9th, 2024 1h

Many of us will have sat through an interview, promotion board or similar and thought "who put this together". Despite best intentions some of them are a shambles with very little consistency and not driven by data or experience. It might be th

#299 The Poet Firefighter with Gerard Devine

May 6th, 2024 1h 55m

Gerard Devine is an award-winning Irish poet who lives a life less ordinary.The former carpenter is a full-time firefighter in Dublin City.Prior to joining the fire brigade, Gerard spent many years working on the building sites of Dublin, Bosto

Bonus

The Secret to Functional First Responder Fitness with TRX

May 1st, 2024 34m 25s

Fire station gyms are typically small and with limited kit and space you want to maximise your time, resource, budget & equipment choice, this is where TRX come in. The smartest gym is the one you already own — your body. TRX powers it by makin

#298 Becoming a Firefighter Challenge Gold Medallist & Growing Self Confidence with Helena Brown

Apr 29th, 2024 42m 51s

Helena Brown is a UK Firefighter who in 2023 burst on the scene of the firefighter challenge community winning the British firefighter challenge. She then joined in in Saudi Arabia winning more medals at the toughest firefighter alive in 2024.

#297 Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember with Liz McConaghy

Apr 22nd, 2024 1h 32m

Liz McConaghy was the longest serving female crewman on the Royal Air Force Chinook Fleet spanning a 17 year career flying on the aircraft. Originally from a small town in Northern Ireland she attended RAF Cranwell on her 19th birthday to beg

#296 Are all Firefighters Bullies - A Conversation on Workplace Culture with Dr Jason Price

Apr 15th, 2024 1h 37m

Are all Firefighters Bullies. If you were to read the papers each week you may well hold this view but like so many things in life its a very small number that can build a bad stereotype of a group of individuals that I feel very proud to be pa