All Episodes

#517 Are We Making Firefighters Safer or Less Capable? | Chris Gott & Justin Brunner

#516 Culture on Fire: We Know the Problem - So Why Is Change So Hard

#515 Beyond National Best Practice: Why Firefighting Needs Global Thinking with Dr Lori Moore-Merrell & Phil Garrigan

#514 Lithium-Ion Battery Fires: What Every Firefighter Needs to Know | Dr Stephen Kerber

#513 Wildfire, AI & the Future of the UK Fire Service | London Fire Commissioner Jonathan Smith

#512 The Future of Firefighter Health & Wellbeing | Professor Rowena Hill | World Fire Congress 2026

#511 Beyond the Incident Command Assessment | Katherine Lamb

#510 Beyond the Fire Kit: Innovation, Culture & Leadership | Simon Hunter

#509 Rebuilding UK Firefighting Tactics, Training & Doctrine with Dan Stephens

#508 Firefighter Cancer, Contaminants & What the Science Now Tells Us with Prof. Anna Stec

#507 DEBRIEF When the Rescue Crew needs rescuing - Firefighter Fatality in DeKalb County Fire Rescue Georgia Sept 8th 2025

#506 DEBRIEF: Running Out of Air - The Texas Fire That Injured Nine Firefighters

#505 INTERSCHUTZ 2026 with PBI What 35 Years in the FDNY Taught Dan Melia About PPE

#504 High Rise Masterclass with Brent Brooks Ep 4 Hose Lines, Big Water & Lithium-Ion Fires

#503 25 Years After 911, Terry Farrell & the Atlanta Stair Climb with Laurel Clonts Malcolm

#502 UK Wildfire Season Debrief 2026

#501 Duarte Mendes Marine, Firefighter, World Champion

#499 How to Buy PPE & Uniform Without Getting It Wrong with Natalie Wilson

#498 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Rescues: When Everyday People Choose to Act

#497 In the Bays with Cobb County Fire Georgia USA

#496 Humble, Hungry & Smart: How to become the teammate your crew can rely on

#495 Creating Thinking Firefighters with Chief Jason Caughey

#494 DEBRIEF: 11 Minutes to Fireball - Boyd Street, Downtown LA, May 16th 2020

#493 On-Call & Volunteer Retention Systems: The Perennial Problem - Solving It for the 21st Century

#492 DEBRIEF: Glasgow School of Art Fire, Failure and the Hidden Highway

#491 Modern Fire officer with Jared Vermeulen

#490 High Rise Masterclass with Brent Brooks Ep 3 High Rise Search, Flow Path & Survivability

#489 More Than Coffee: Rescue 1 & the Mission of Fire Department Coffee with Randy James

#488 Firefighters with Parkinson’s: The Diagnosis No One Sees Coming

#487 Mr Honest Work aka Jaguar Wattley

#486 Why Persistence Matters: Firefighter, Gladiator & Competitive Optimist | Millie Margetts

#485 Leather, Legacy & the shield with Justin Fitzwater of Fitzwater Leather

#484 You Can't Put It Out - Thermal Runaway, EV Fires & the Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight with Martin Brown

#483 Debrief - Doorway to Hell | 2 Forest Laneway, North York, Toronto, Canada | January 6th 1995

#482 AFOA 2026 Conference Live - Developing the All-Hazard Leader with Peter Critchell and Craig Rayner

#481 Rescue, Transform, Donate: Sustainable Luxury with Kresse Wesling of Elvis & Kresse

#480 High Rise Masterclass with Brent Brooks Episode 2

#479 The Evolution of Structural Firefighting PPE: Reigniting a New Era with Bill Lawson and Helmut Zepf from PBI

#478 Firefighter Jack Goodwin on Elite Performance, Mental Health & Finding Meaning Beyond Success

#477 High Rise Masterclass with Brent Brooks Mini-series Episode 1

#476 AFOA 2026 Conference Live RFFS Industry Update with Neil Gray

#475 Electric Vehicle Fires Explained with Mike Maybin from IRRTC

#474 AFOA 2026 Conference Live: Resilience After Trauma with Matt Bourner

#473 AFOA 2026 Conference Live: Operational Learning from the Southend Airport Crash with Justin Nicolson

#472 The Art of Decision Making: Incident command, Cognition & Chaos on the Fireground

#471 Why Good Ideas Fail in the Fire Service with Peter Younes of PROJECT COMMAND

#470 Cuts, Cancer, Crewing & What’s Really Happening to the UK Fire Service with Ben Selby Assistant General Secretary of Fire Brigades Union

#469 Domestic Violence in The Fire Service: When the Person who wears the Uniform Needs Protecting with Rhiain Akin

#468 YOUR UNIFORM IS FAILING....and you know it - Claire Wilford from First Tactical

#467 Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models for First Responders with Jurga Zilinskiene MBE

#466 Mental Health, Purpose & Why So Many Suffer in Silence with Warren Shepherd & Lee Ralph from Freedom in The Fire

#465 IFIW Australia Ep05 Steve De Blauwe - Hose Management & Building a System for Interior Firefighting

#464 Brad Dicks Redefining High Performance without Burnout

#463 Dr Mark Spencer on Forensic Botany Hidden Evidence & Solving Crime Through Nature

#462 DEBRIEF London Luton Airport’s Terminal Car Park 2 fire October 10th 2023

#461 Why Silence Is Killing Our Culture with Graham Goulden

#460 Fire Spyder: A New Answer to High-Rise Firefighting with Thomas Jonkers

#459 Are we at risk of losing our sense of humour - A conversation about Humour, Trauma & the Psychology of Leadership with Sonia Pawson

#458 DEBRIEF: When Smoke Took the Building - Twin Parks High Rise, Bronx, New York, January 2022

#457 The Care Gap, Ten second Triage & Why We’re Not Getting to Patients Fast Enough with Dr Phil Cowburn

#456 We Need You: Firefighter Cognition Under Heat

#455 Have we been alerting firefighters the wrong way ? - Blake Richardson from EASE ALERT

#454 IFIW Australia Ep04 Chief Jason Caughey - Commanding the Balance Between Aggression & Safety

#453 Tradition & Reform: Navigating Change in the Fire Service with Beci Newton

#452 IFIW Australia – Ep03 James Mendoza Large Volume Gas Cooling & The Home Depot Fire

#451 Challenge Season: Legends, Disruptors & the Rise of the British Firefighter Series with John Gregory

#450 IFIW Australia – Ep02 Ed Hartin Fireground Sensemaking & Decision Making for Station Officers

#449 London Fire Brigade - A UK Fire Brigade on a Global Scale with LFB Commissioner Jonathan Smith

#448 IFIW Australia - Ep01 Karel Lambert Air Consumption During Tunnel Firefighting with IFE

#447 Hard Things, Endurance & Bum Butter - an Adventure with Scott Butler

#446 Debrief: Bethnal Green, London, July 20th 2004

#445 Managers Enforce Rules, Leaders Enforce Values with Chris Case

#444 Debrief: Old Albert Mill, Whitworth, Lancashire, May 15th 2009

#443 FireSport UK Festival of Fire Sport with Chief Fire Officer Chris Kirby

#442 Boots on the Ground at Intersec Dubai: A Firefighter’s Reflection on Global Innovation, Scale, and What Comes Next

#441 Beyond the Minimum Standard: The UK Firefighter Challenge Series & Northeast FF Challenge with Ben Le Fevre and Dan Watson

#440 Debrief: 3 floor residential Fire Massachusetts Nov 13 2019 Career Lieutenant Dies and Four Firefighters Injured

#439 The Job, the Life & Everything in Between with Eternal Recruit Matt Akers

#438 Debrief Camp fire Paradise, California, USA, November 2018

#437 The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire Dublin 1875 with Las Fallon

#436 DEBRIEF: The Station Nightclub Fire 2003 Rhode Island USA

#435 Lucy Macleod on Identity Beyond the Uniform and the Work of Staying Human in the Fire Service

#434 Search Patterns, Nozzles and Who Wears BA with Dave Payton & Iain Evans of FIRE ATTACTICS

#433 2025 Debrief: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What Matters Now

#432 Fire Behaviour: Training vs Reality with Dave Payton & Iain Evans of FIRE ATTACTICS

#431 The Psychology of Rescue with Dr Lynsey Mahmood PhD

#430 Never on a 10: Leadership, Accountability and the Fireground Reality with Bob Palestrant

#429 Building a Fire Service at the Roof of the World: Everest Fire and Rescue - Fire Aid Nepal

#428 Closing the Gap Between Fire Science and the Fireground with Matt Davis

#427 The Duty to Remember with Alan House of the Firefighters Memorial Trust

#426 Collaboration Over Tradition: Dave Berry and the Rise of Tactical Firefighting UK

#425 Droplets, Energy and the Future of Container Training with Lucas Garden

#424 From the Service Strategy all the way to the Branch: Unified Fireground Thinking with Gerard Mann

#423 When Doctrine Fails: Standards, Strategy and the Reality of Fireground Performance with Dan Stephens

#422 Health Span over Life Span Staying Operational to 60 with Chris Ward of Fit Fire Rescue part 2

#421 Health Span over Life Span: Staying Operational to 60 with Chris Ward of Fit Fire Rescue part 1

#420 International Mens Day at South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

#419 Forging Fire: Building Teams That Last with Dr. Johnny Torgeson

#418 Why Emotional Intelligence Might Be the Missing Tool in the Fire Service with Chief Fire Officer Darren Dovey KFSM

#417 The Story of FDNY Firefighter Patrick Brady