All Blog Posts Tagged 'billy' (3)

From Multitasking to Task Overload For firefighters, the ability to do many things at once is crucial, but it’s easy to take it too far By Billy Schmidt Firefighting-360 (FF-360) is a continuing series of articles that takes a broad look into the concept of crew resource management (CRM)… Continue

CHIEF BILLY GOLDFEDER FireFighterNation.com Commentary Dear Mayor & City Manager, Odds are at this point, as hard as we have tried, you still don't seem to understand the need for our department, YOUR fire department, to be well prepared and fully able to respond quickly when our citizens call 9-1-1 for a fire. Mr. Mayor, this has nothing to do with how many fires we have -- it has everything to do with every fire we have. Actually, at this point, Mr. Mayor and Manager, you are pro… Continue

Today, the IAFC and the IAFF released joint statements condemning the recent report from National League of Cities/TriData, “Assessing State Firefighter Cancer Presumption Laws.” Read the IAFC statement here and the IAFF statement here. In case you’ve been w… Continue