It’s very easy to become complacent as a firefighter. Yet it

is also one of the most dangerous attitudes to adopt.

We’ve all been on calls where weekly, it seems, the alarm at

the same location seems to activate and ends up being a false alarm. It could

be a commercial structure in a business district or a residential alarm in what

seems to be the middle of nowhere. It could be that geriatric call you’ve

gotten…

Sometimes we need to look outside the fire service to

improve how we learn, how we train, and how we move forward. Successful people

in virtually every field can point to a person who they feel positively

affected them in a way that steered them in an affirmative direction to achieve

their success. While they may not realize it, those people are mentors.

The concept of mentoring is not new, but has recently become more…