Capitol Fire Training Podcast

This month we get the honor to have an exclusive interview with Detroit Fire Department's Senior Lieutenant Darnell McLaurin of Rescue Squad 5. During this one of a kind podcast, we started talking about how rescue company's work and perform in a city like Detroit where there is never a shortage of fires, but constant struggles with a growing urban city. The conversation shifted to some well thought out concepts of "why we got into this business" and the constant reminder of who we serve and why. 

Job specific fitness training and having the mentality and motivation to stay physically fit is important. Often times we loose track of the importance of these trhree traits. In this "welcome back" to podcasting podcast, we sit down with couple Jared Seitz and Gailynn Petry, and talk about firefighter physical fitness.   

We're Back into 2021 with the Capitol Fire Training Podcasts. This is just a quick update on where we've been, but most importantly where we're going.  

Fire service tools have been around for many years. Just like anything in the fire service, they evolve over time. Some tools have made a heavy impact on the fire service. During this podcast we sit down with tool inventor and fire service leader Fred Malven, the inventor of the Malven Works Hawk tool, and Monster Halligan, and discuss their concepts, their abilities as well as their locations across the world.

We talk it, but is everyone walking it? In this [podcast we sit down with fire service mentor, leader, instructor, and Ocean City Maryland's Skip Carey, and hit it all. This unedited podcast covers fire service training, the building blocks to a successful career, how we keep the brotherhood alive and most importantly the relationships that are made and how to keep them.    *Bonus Content* towards the end of this podcast, we pick Mr. Skip Carey's brain about one of our own "CFT" instructors, that he knows VERY well. 

We previously discussed managing the mayday from the outside with Deputy Chief Lenny Chornock, but what about managing the mayday from the inside? How are we managing the process of removing our brother and sister firefighter's from the nasty environment after the mayday is called? Have we taken the steps to prepare for the inside actions? How quick are we getting them out of that environment and into the better environment? These are all questions we have to ask ourselves, for the ideal RIT removal. The second part of our "Managing the Mayday" series, we sit down with firefighters, line officers, Chief Officers, and even law enforcement officers, with our brothers from F.A.S.T. Rescue Solutions and we discuss RIT concepts and operations. Along with that, a product that was invented to help aide in the fast removal of the downed firefighters from the inside. 

One push of a shutter button on a camera can capture life's most precious moments. Some of those moments we can never get back, and some of those moments had they not been captured via camera we could never reflect on them ever again. In this podcast we sit down with Brooklyn New York's Photo Journalist Lloyd Mitchell, as he talks exclusively to us about what he's seen while he captures some of life's most iconic images in the fire service with his cameras. Lloyd Mitchell is a Photo Journalist from Brooklyn New York, with 8 years of emergency incident photography. Lloyd has followed fire and police departments all over the country, capturing scenes from some of the nations largest scaled incidents. Lloyd is currently a photographer with the New York Times, Canarsie Courier, New York Post, Reuters News Agency, and Fire Engineering. Lloyd has been featured in Fire Engineering magazine many times as well as had his images featured in cover stories and instructor articles. 

Mayday...Mayday...Mayday The most chilling set of words that nobody ever wants to hear, come across a portable radio. On top of that, being able to not only manage dealing with it, but continuing to mitigate an emergency around that, as well as keeping your emotions in check.   This episode with CFT instructor Robert “RJ” James and special guest Deputy Fire Chief Leonard Chornock sit down and discuss some of those “managing the mayday” thoughts and practices. With 40 years experience in the fire service and having been involved with 2 maydays in his Chief career, Chief Chornock talks about his own personal experiences and all that surrounds that call on the radio.

We all have that person or persons in our life that has shaped us in the fire service. These people are the ones that may have showed us key traits to being successful in the fire service. Each mentor has their own way of doing it. This exclusive episode , CFT instructors "RJ", Aaron Martin, Dave Polikoff and special guest Dave McGill, sit down while live at FDIC in Indianapolis and discuss the mentorship of the fire service. Who were their mentors, how it motivated them, how it shaped them, and most importantly how they use it into the building up of others in the fire service.

The fire-ground is one big band performance with everyone playing in sync with each other. The command officer is the band maestro and he/she is in charge of the way the team sounds, In this episode Battalion Chief Dave Polikoff gives a little insight on his command program that he will be presenting tomorrow at FDIC as well as his perspective on being a successful command officer. 

The fire-ground is one big band performance with everyone playing in sync with each other. The command officer is the band maestro and he/she is in charge of the way the team sounds. In this episode Battalion Chief Dave Polikoff gives a little insight on his command program that he will be presenting tomorrow here at FDIC as well as his perspective on being a successful command officer.

Motivation is key to a successful crew in the fire service. But how do we get to that point? How do we motivate the unmotivated? How do we deal with the unmotivated? Capitol Fire Training instructors RJ & Dave Polikoff discuss the fine details of combating these obstacles and people in the fire service.