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Smart Firefighting
by Smart Firefighting
Smart Firefighting Podcast covers real-world deployments of smart technologies through conversations with technologists, innovators, companies, and forward-thinking public safety and government agencies. Learn from interviews with leaders as they share their insights and offer their expertise every week! Host Kevin Sofen is a co-founding member of the Smart First Responder Community who loves to explore change management and technology in public safety.
Episodes
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Episode 334: FLIR Sells Time: Thermal Imaging, Speed, and the Next Five Years with Peter Dekkers of FLIR
A firefighter sweeps a smoke-filled room. Every second of that sweep matters. Peter Dekkers of FLIR Systems explains how thermal imaging wins those seconds back. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and...
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Episode 333: A Digital Sand Table for Wildland Fire with Jackson Yip of Paladin Industries
Wildland crews dig line for days. Then the fire jumps it, and they fall back to the next ridge. Nobody knew if that line would hold. Jackson Yip wants crews to know before they dig. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews…
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Episode 332: Make Mistakes Safely: Egi Cuijten on VR Training for High-Risk, Low-Frequency Incidents
Some incidents happen once in a career. A massive fire with multiple trucks, EMS, and police on scene. When it happens, crews need to be ready. Egi Cuijten of Flashgroup builds virtual reality training for exactly that gap. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of…
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Episode 331: Where Have We Searched? SARCOP, the Common Operating Platform Behind FEMA USAR Teams with Jared Doke
After a hurricane, a tornado or a wildfire, search and rescue teams need three answers fast. Where do we need to search? Where have we already searched? Where do we go next? SARCOP, the Search and Rescue Common Operating Platform, exists to answer those questions on a map. Hello Smart…
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Episode 330: Building for the City of the Future: CAD Data, Digital Twins and Station Placement with Craig Hiltz – Darkhorse
Every fire department already owns years of CAD and RMS data. Most of it sits untouched… Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own…
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Episode 329: Precision Over Volume: Rethinking the Fire Nozzle with Jason Floyd of HEN Technologies
For decades the fire service has answered bigger fires with one move: more water. Bigger lines, bigger turrets, bigger flows. Modern fires have outgrown that equation. In wind driven wildfires, traditional fog streams erode before they reach the flame front. Crews end up battling the nozzle…
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Episode 328: 300 Firefighters in 3.5 Weeks: How San Diego Built VR Search and Rescue Training with Captain J Harris
Most fire crews get few real repetitions on search and rescue. The calls are rare. The training is expensive. It takes companies out of service, and it adds injury and exposure risk. San Diego Fire-Rescue built a different path. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of...
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Episode 327: A Governance Problem, Not a Technology Problem: Inside Pratus with Roger Coleman and Sean Griffin
Every disaster review finds the same failure: communication. Crews on 9/11 passed handwritten notes. Agencies at the LA wildfires could not talk across radio bands. During Hurricane Maria, restoration trucks sat at a pier while their ship steamed away. The pattern repeats because the lessons…
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Episode 326: Embrace the Suck a Little Less: Purpose-Built Wildland Tools with Scott Reimann of Vallfirest
Wildland fires are bigger and faster than they were 20 years ago. Much of the gear on the line has not kept up. A broken shovel. A pack that does not fit. Standard issue equipment that looks 50 years old because it basically is… Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of...
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Episode 325: Become Dangerously Competent: Training, Hazmat, and AI in the Fire Service with Jake Ryks - The HazMat Guys
The fire service has spent years turning hazmat into either a horror movie or a checklist. Jake Ryks thinks both are wrong. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that…
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Episode 324: Firefighters Are Tactical Athletes: Recovery Debt, Sleep, and the Safe to Talk Culture with Marc Wysocki
Society wants an Olympic athlete neurosurgeon on every call. That superhero may have already saved the day ten times this week, at two in the morning, on no sleep. Nobody sees the beating on the inside. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world...
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Episode 323: How a Fire Department Decides What Tech to Buy with Eric Linnenburger
The biggest constraint most fire departments face is not money. It is being shorthanded. Over 90% of a typical fire budget goes to personnel, which leaves almost nothing for the next great tool and no spare bandwidth to chase every vendor at the trade show. Hello Smart Firefighting Community!...
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Episode 322: Inside Panasonic Tough Command: Connected Vehicles for Emergency Response with Kjeld Lindsted
Most first responder vehicles are full of technology that does not talk to itself. A dash cam here. A radio there. An MDT, a license plate reader, lights and sirens, all from different makers, all siloed. The data exists. It just never lands in one place where anyone can use it. Hello Smart...
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Episode 321: Building for Chaos, Not Compliance with Bailey Farren – Perimeter
Bailey Farren is the co-founder and CEO of Perimeter. In 2017 she was evacuated from the Tubbs Fire, and what she saw that night, people with no way to know where the danger was or where to go, became the problem she has spent the better part of a decade solving. Hello Smart Firefighting…
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Episode 320: He Missed the Hydrant, Then Built the Tool to Ensure No One Else Does. Rapid Response Co with Bobby Banome
Bobby Banome is an FDNY firefighter from Staten Island who got tired of arriving at fires without the information his crew needed. So he built something. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and…
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Episode 319: How Garage Is Fixing the Broken Secondary Market for Fire Apparatus with Martin Hunt
The secondary market for fire apparatus runs on Facebook groups, newspaper classifieds, and local auctions. A small town in Texas budgeted $100,000 for a used truck sale. Garage got them $1.3 million. That is what happens when you put infrastructure behind a market that has never had any. Hello...
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Episode 318: Training Is Lived, Not Lectured - VR Training for Firefighters with Evan Sitler-Bates and Drew MacNeil from XpertVR
Firefighters train all year, but most of it is death by PowerPoint. Evan Sitler-Bates and Drew MacNeil, co-founders of XpertVR, are building a different answer: immersive virtual reality simulations where firefighters actually do the work instead of watching someone describe it. Hello Smart...
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Episode 317: Bridging Firefighters and Engineers Through Leadership and Trust with Mark Reilly
What does leadership really look like when lives are on the line? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting…
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Episode 316: Why Mental Health Conversations Matter in the Fire Service with Max Cottingham
It’s okay to not be okay. The question is, who notices? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy.…
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Episode 315: When Fire Protection Has No Rulebook with Alex Starkey
What happens when fire protection standards do not apply? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy....
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Episode 314: Reducing Risk Before It Becomes Disaster with Emma Whale & Amanda Leck
What does risk really mean when the stakes are rising for entire communities? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart...
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Episode 313: Why First Responders Need One Global Language for Safety with Kurt Vollmacher
How do you prepare firefighters for risks that did not exist 10 years ago? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart…
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Episode 312: From Close Call to Safer Fireground Operations with Matt Simmonds
What starts as a routine task on the fireground can quickly turn into a life threatening moment. For Matt Simmonds, that moment came while rolling hose after a fire, when a passing vehicle nearly struck his crew. That close call sparked a question that many firefighters have quietly accepted for...
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Episode 311: Moving Communities Out of Harm’s Way with Gavin Smith
What happens when a community faces the reality that staying in place is no longer safe? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own…
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Episode 310: Bridging the Gap Between Fire Engineering and the Fire Service with Fiona Perrin
What happens when the people who design buildings and the firefighters who respond to emergencies inside them stop talking to each other? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry...
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Episode 309: What Aviation Emergencies Teach Us About Coordination and Preparedness with Greg Pobar
Aviation is one of the safest forms of transportation in the world, but that safety depends on careful preparation for events everyone hopes will never happen. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and...
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Episode 308: A Global Alliance to See Fire Before It Spreads with Karen O’Connor
What if every fire agency could detect a wildfire within minutes of ignition and track it in near real time? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to…
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Episode 307: Why Cooking Fires Still Drive So Many Fire Calls with Kevin Callahan & Will Boake
Why do cooking fires keep happening even when people know better? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting…
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Episode 306: Why Time Matters Most in Fireground Decision-Making with Peter Dekkers
How many decisions do you make in seconds on the fireground, and what happens if technology slows you down? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to…
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Episode 305: What Experience Teaches Us About Risk And Resilience with Sophia Curnow
What does a farming background teach you about firefighting, risk, and resilience? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart...
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Episode 304: When Fire Engineering Fails, Firefighters Pay the Price with Richard Mills
What happens when a building is not as safe as everyone assumed it was? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 303: Global Fire Leadership and the Power of One Voice with Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell
What happens when fire leaders from around the world sit down with one shared purpose: to protect communities before disaster strikes? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts...
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Episode 302: How Expert Incident Leaders Think Under Pressure with Claire Cooper
When everything feels uncertain, what guides your decisions? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy....
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Episode 301: Turning Complex Equipment Management Into Clear Peace of Mind with Rob Stirling
Ever picked up a piece of gear and wondered if you could trust it? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 300: Inside the Mission of Rapid Intervention Teams with Steven Kaiser
What protects firefighters when everything changes in an instant? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting…
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Episode 299: Fire Service Leadership, Climate Truth, and the Courage to Speak Up with Greg Mullins
How do you stay honest about risk when the world around you is changing faster than the systems meant to protect it? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU…
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Episode 298: Building Safer Communities Through Fire Engineering and Frontline Experience with Jeremy Fewtrell
What does it look like when a fire service treats prevention and response as one mission? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own...
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Episode 297: From Beavers to Buybacks: How Nature Shapes Disaster Preparedness with Andrew Gissing
What does it really mean to build disaster resilience in a changing world? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart…
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Episode 296: From Vibe Coding to Real Change, Fireant’s Vision for Smarter Solutions with Thomas Mynott
How can technology rebuild trust and reduce admin burdens for volunteers in fire and emergency services? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop...
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Episode 295: Hydrogen and the Future of Decarbonization in Public Safety with Paul Medwell
Hydrogen is often called the fuel of the future, but what does it really mean for public safety? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very...
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Episode 294: How Firestory Helps Agencies Predict, Prepare, and Protect with Olivia Breed
How do we turn overwhelming data into meaningful, life-saving action? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 293: How LA Fought Twelve Fires in Fifteen Days with Chief Tony Marrone
Wind picks up, embers are flying...what stands between you and loss? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 292: Turning Climate Data into Safer Cities with Peter Thompson & Barry Evans
What if we could predict the next wildfire before it started? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy....
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Episode 291: Driving Change and Innovation in Fire Service Training with Casey Grant
What are measurable, standardized ways to evaluate training across departments? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart...
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Episode 290: Volunteer Fire Service, Training Barriers, and the Future of Recruitment with Brittany Hollerbach
What are the essential factors for firefighter readiness and retention? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 289: Enhancing Firefighter Training and Exploring AI with John Oates
How can we strengthen firefighter training without replacing traditional methods? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart...
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Episode 288: Standardizing Immersive Learning for the Fire Service with Dr. Kate Kapalo
What is the future of fire service training? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy! In this episode:...
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Episode 287: Building the Fire Academy of the Future with Ken Willette
What are essential elements of the fire academy of the future? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy!…
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Episode 286: Building Simple, Scalable Tech for Firefighters and Warfighters with Paul Couston
Here’s why technology must fit seamlessly into firefighter operations: Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting...
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Episode 285: TAK for First Responders with Brian Alligood from Draper Labs
Why does the TAK ecosystem work? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy! In this episode: How can...
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Smart Firefighting Podcast covers real-world deployments of smart technologies through conversations with technologists, innovators, companies, and forward-thinking public safety and government agencies. Learn from interviews with leaders as they share their insights and offer their expertise every week! Host Kevin Sofen is a co-founding member of the Smart First Responder Community who loves to explore change management and technology in public safety.
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