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Firefighter Podcast — 487 episodes

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#501 Duarte Mendes Marine, Firefighter, World Champion

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

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

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#497 In the Bays with Cobb County Fire Georgia USA

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

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#495 Creating Thinking Firefighters with Chief Jason Caughey

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

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

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

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#491 Modern Fire officer with Jared Vermeulen

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

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

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

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#487 Mr Honest Work aka Jaguar Wattley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#480 High Rise Masterclass with Brent Brooks Episode 2

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

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

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

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

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#475 Electric Vehicle Fires Explained with Mike Maybin from IRRTC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#464 Brad Dicks Redefining High Performance without Burnout

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

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

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#461 Why Silence Is Killing Our Culture with Graham Goulden

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

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

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

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

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#456 We Need You: Firefighter Cognition Under Heat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#431 The Psychology of Rescue with Dr Lynsey Mahmood PhD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#420 International Mens Day at South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

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

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

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#417 The Story of FDNY Firefighter Patrick Brady

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#416 Evolving the Fireground: International Lessons with Mike Stachowicz

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#415 STAY LEFT OF BANG: A Career of International Disaster Response & Rescue with Jim McParland Part 2

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#414 STAY LEFT OF BANG: A Career of International Disaster Response & Rescue with Jim McParland Part 1

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#413 INCIDENT DEBRIEF: The Woolworths fire - Manchester - May 8th 1979

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#412 Recruiting Tomorrow’s Fire Service Leaders with Hannah Vallance, Chartered Occupational Psychologist & Director at VCA Ltd

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#411 National Breathing Apparatus Challenge The Debrief Part 2

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#410 National Breathing Apparatus Challenge 2025: The Debrief - Part 1

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#409 Evolution vs Revolution: The Journey of Tactical Firefighting UK continues Part 2 of 2 with Dave Berry

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#408 ESS LIVE - When Systems Fail: Human Factors and the Weight of Modern Healthcare with Andy Youngson & Simon Nevitt

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#407 The Origin & Evolutions of Firefighter Fitness Tests in the UK with Dr Phil Turner

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#406 Built to Last: The Data Behind Improving Firefighter Health with Dr Daniel Higuera PHD

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#405 The History of the Fire Service

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#404 Fuel What Matters: Performance, Recovery & Supplementation with Dan Peskett, Martin Boyce & Xendurance

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#403 ESS LIVE Confidence, Challenge, and Change: WFS with Siobhan & Ellie

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#402 DEBRIEF: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

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#401 ESS LIVE: Phil Garrigan & Fin Monahan on Leadership& Culture from the RAF to the Fireground

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#400 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Psychology of Service, Survival, Stress & the Warrior Mindset

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#399 LEADERS AS GARDENER'S: Building Psychological Safety and Future Ready Fire Services with Ann Millington OBE - Chief Executive of Kent Fire and Rescue Service

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#398 REMEMBERING THE 343: Firefighters United for the 911 Memorial Stair Climb

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#397 NORTHANTS FIREFIGHTER CHALLENGE 2025 DEBRIEF

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FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONS: Pressurised Staircases in UK High-Rise Buildings

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#396 FIREFIT WORLD RECORD HOLDER BRAD DICKS

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#395 Firefighter PPE for a Changing World with Vicki Jackson of MSA

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#394 We Remember Them: Reflections from the Firefighters Memorial Service of Remembrance

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#393 Growing Leaders, Building Trust & shaping culture with Mark Baxter CFO Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue

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#392 SOUTH COAST FIREFIGHTER CHALLENGE 2025 DEBRIEF

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#391 WELSH FIREFIGHTER CHALLENGE 2025 DEBRIEF

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FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONS: FLOWPATHS

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#390 Beyond the Job: John Kelly on Holistic Health & Outliving the Fire Service

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FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONS: Basic Chemistry for Firefighting - The Reactions that Feed Fire

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#389 Evolution of INCIDENT COMMAND in the UK Fire Service with Kevin Arbuthnot

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FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATIONS: The Foundations of Scientific Thinking for Firefighters

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#389 Tactical Firefighting, Macedonia, Evolution & National best practice with Dave Berry - part 1 of 2

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#388 Forensic Leadership & The Traces we leave behind with Paul Kinkaid

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HAIX GTX Extraguard - The Future of Fire Boots with GORE & HAIX

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#386 Firefighting in a WARZONE with a Ukraine Firefighter

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#385 Help I think My Boss Is A Narcissist

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#384 DEBRIEF: FIRE IN THE SKY

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#383 The Future Direction of the UK Fire Service with NFCC Chair Phil Garrigan

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#382 What Happened at Grenfell with expert witness Steve McGuirk

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#381 FDNY Chief Officer Frank Leeb

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#380 The Worlds Strongest Firefighter 2025 with Frank Boniello

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#379 A Story of Racism, Resilience & Resisting Systems of Denial with Sal Naseem

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#378 Leadership, Low Agency & Learned Helplessness in the UK Fire Service

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#377 Instructor Discussion Netherlands Smoke Cooling Experiments Ep1

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#376 Fighting Fire Fit with Phill Matthews

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#375 Hazmat, Detection & The Hidden Threats we face with Dr Mark Norman

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#374 Firefighter Stephen Hunt & The Paul’s Hair and Beauty World Incident Debrief

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#373 PGI Particulate Protection & Decontamination Seminar with Joe Taylor of Dewipe

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#372 PGI Particulate Protection & Decontamination Seminar with Robbie Burns & Michelle O'Toole

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#371 Service without Self-Destruction with Dan Dworkis MD PHD

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#370 Honouring Martin Green: A Family's Story with Latitia & Evan Green - PGI Particulate Protection & Decontamination Seminar 3 of 6

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#369 PGI Particulate Protection & Decontamination Seminar 2 of 6 with John Lord

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#368 PGI Particulate Protection & Decontamination Seminar 1 of 6 with Andy Slater PGI

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#367 Herding sheep & Finding your Natural Leadership sweet spot with Stu Jackson

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#178 Harrow Court Hertfordshire Incident Debrief February 2nd 2005

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#366 Ben Selby Fire Brigades Union Assistant General Secretary FBU

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#365 Leadership, People & Unseen Privilege with Abi Manifold

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#364 Red Teaming, Critical Thinking, Adaptive Leadership & Wildfires with Jayson Coil

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#363 Policing, Black History, Stop & Search & Self-transformation with Nigel Best

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#362 Justin Johnston Ret Chief Fire Officer UKFRS

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#361 Air Crash Investigation with Karl Scammel from Air Accidents Investigation Branch

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#360 Life on station, Firefighter Challenges & Cat shit coffee with Dean Keeber & Matt Adams

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#359 When Toxic Leadership Leads to Ethical Drift with Jan Morris

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#358 Effective Communicating and Coordinating with the public with Anne Templeton Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology

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#357 Change that Once wasn’t Possible is Now Deliverable - Dave Walton Deputy Chief Fire Officer WYFRS

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#356 UK Firefighting & our Response to Domestic Dwelling Fires: A Deep Dive with Dan Stephens

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#355 From Firefighting to Recovery: Navigating Injury, Identity, and Mental Health with Justin Stoneham

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#354 Most Influential Women in Fire 2024 with Colette Black

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#353 Essential Training Ideas, Drills, Recruitment Insights & Firefighter Development with Adam from DrillBook

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#352 From Ashes to Iron: A journey of Grit, Perseverance & Strength with Zac Blackledge

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#351 Faith Religion & Firefighters for Christ with Simon Hewitt

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#350 The 5 Tool Firefighter with Nicholas J Higgins

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#349 Blazing Trails, Breaking Records and the value of Fierce, Female Role Models in Fitness & Firefighting with Helena Brown

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#348 Fire Aid Nepal with John Aitchison

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#347 Fitness Foundations for 40 years of Firefighting with Alan Smith

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#346 Research Driven Firefighting Tactics & The Quadrant Model with Professor Ricardo Weewer

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#345 I Can’t Save You, and I don’t want to die trying with Dr Burton A Clark

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#344 Proficiency, Accountability & Embracing Mistakes with John McDonough

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#343 Beyond the Flames: The Lifespan of Firefighters Gear, PPE & Fabrics

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#342 Police Interceptors, consent vs force and the true trauma cost paid by first responders with Ben Pearson

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#341 Fighting stereotypes & Clearing a Path for others with Vicky Shakesby MBE

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#340 James Braidwood, Paul Grimwood & 200 years of Firefighting with Mike Stachowicz

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#339 NOW & NEXT with Pete & Carl

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#338 Firefighter Suicide, Mental health & a conversation on Formalised Academic Curiosity with Researcher Dr Rowena Hill MBE

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#337 National Breathing Apparatus Challenge 2024 Part 2 of 2 The Debrief

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#336 National Breathing Apparatus Challenge 2024 Part 1 of 2 Behind the Scenes

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#335 Tackling Misconduct & Unacceptable Behaviour within UK Fire & Rescue with Roy Wilsher of HMICFRS

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#334 UKRO & The Festival of Rescue with Ian Greenman

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#333 Emily Watkins - Inflammatory & Psychological Consequences of Chronic High Exposure Firefighting

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#332 Russ Timpson – Surviving Tall Buildings & The International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference

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#331 NOW & NEXT with Pete & Carl

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ESS 2024 round up - Search & Rescue Dogs, Women in Fire, PPE & Apparel with Hunter & PTSD with PC Tony Stamp

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ESS 2024 round up - DE-WIPE Reducing the risk of occupational cancer to firefighters with Jo Taylor MBE

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ESS 2024 round up - SNOWMED CODES with John Lord & Robbie Burns

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ESS 2024 round up - Firefighter Challenges, Lifesaving Lifeboats, & Tall Buildings Conferences

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#330 Tactical Firefighting UK GROUP - Dave Berry & Lewis White - BE SAHF

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#329 CE-Certified Undergarments protecting Firefighters skin against carcinogenic fire gases with Thomas Dedering CEO of CPP Garments

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#328 Kristina Stiles - Burns, Trauma & recovery beyond the fire ground

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#327 Decision-making & Teamwork in high pressured environments with Dr Nikki Power

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#326 Incident command, Managing Big Jobs & What to consider with Dan Stephens

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#325 Change Management & The Complexity of Change with Stephen Carver

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#323 Antarctic Fire Angels: The Great World Race 777

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#322 Mental Health, 999:RESET, Ben Nevis and Reframing Success

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#321 Gerard Mann Leadership Resiliency Mindset & Culture

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#320 TABLET COMMAND with Andy Bozzo & Will Pigeon

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#319 NOW & NEXT with Pete & Carl

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#318 Professor Paul Christensen Recharged - Specialist Consultant for Lithium Ion Battery Safety

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#317 Ben Levy UK strategic lead for Fires in Tall Buildings at the National Fire Chiefs Council

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#316 Josh Burchick Forged & Unbroken

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#315 British Firefighter Challenge 2024 ROUND UP

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#314 The Who, What, How & Why The Firefighters Podcast started - Sarah Bromley Interviews founder & Host Pete Wakefield

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#313 The Firefighters Charity with Joss Gaynor & Steve Sadler

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#312 IFIW and the international perspective with Mike Stachowicz

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CHANGE - Embracing, Embedding and Managing through it with Louise Diffey at WFS 2024

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#311 High Rise Firefighting with Brent Brooks

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#310 The World of Search & Rescue with Dave O'Neill MBE part 2 of 2

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#309 Debrief: The Smithfield Market Fire January 23rd 1958

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#308 The World of Search & Rescue with Dave O'Neill MBE Part 1 of 2

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#307 Incident Command Development Team at WFS 2024

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The Diabetes Epidemic & How its affecting first responders with Kate Walker

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Siobhan AKA The Fire Mum at WFS 2024

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#306 TELSTAR HOUSE DEBRIEF - LONDON 2003 with Chris Westfield

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#305 Welsh Firefighter Challenge Event Debrief 2024

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#304 Manchester Arena Bombing Debrief & lessons learned with John Fletcher

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Bonus Episode: It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves - An adventure with Daisy Byron & Clare Fletcher from Women Wanderers 999

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#303 Andy Starnes Understanding Thermal Imagery, Your Leadership Style & the key to survive the fire service

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Lancashire IFE CPD 6 of 6 Closing Round Table Discussion

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Lancashire IFE CPD 5 of 6 Knowing the spread with John McDonough

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Lancashire IFE CPD 4 of 6 Three kinds of fire with Karel Lambert

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#302 That HYROX Firefighter - Andy Watt's Challenge in aid of Maggie's Cancer Centres & Macmillan

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Lancashire IFE CPD 3 of 6 Rules for Leadership with Karel Lambert

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Lancashire IFE CPD 2 of 6 the Non Negotiables with John McDonough

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Lancashire IFE CPD 1 of 6 Structural Firefighting & Tactical Ventilation with John McDonough & Karel Lambert

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#301 Leadership & The Impact we have on others with Carl Boasman

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#300 How to get the best people in the right roles in the fire service with Occupational Psychologist Hannah Valance

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#299 The Poet Firefighter with Gerard Devine

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The Secret to Functional First Responder Fitness with TRX

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#298 Becoming a Firefighter Challenge Gold Medallist & Growing Self Confidence with Helena Brown

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#297 Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember with Liz McConaghy

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#296 Are all Firefighters Bullies - A Conversation on Workplace Culture with Dr Jason Price

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#295 How a routine Firefighter Health screening discovered my Brain Tumour with Carla Morrison

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#294 The Firefighting Gladiator with Bronte Jones

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#293 Why a Lack of Sleep is Killing our First Responders with Dan Evison

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#292 Eduardo Martins & Brazilian Fire Service at Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE 2024

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#291 Jared Johnson 9 x Firefighter Challenge World Champion at Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE 2024

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#290 Science Backed Data driven firefighting with Chief Fire Officer Dan Stephens

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#289 Team UK & British Firefighter Challenge organisers John Gregory & Mickey Joseph at Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE 2024

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#288 Team Canada Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE 2024

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#287 Team USA Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE 2024

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#286 THE SHIFT WORKERS BLUEPRINT - How to become a happy, healthy & strong first responder with Grace Cowan

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#285 Iron Man, Edge Detection & The Future of Firefighting with Captain (Ret) Kirk McKinzie

237

#284 FDIC & Tall Buildings Fire Safety Conference with Russ Timpson

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#283 The World Firefighter Games with John Hartley

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Waldbaum’s supermarket fire Debrief: The historic fire that killed 6 FDNY firefighters

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#282 Firefighter Cancer, Decontamination & Particulate Protection

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#281 Mickey Farrell Top Floor Tactics & FDNY

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#280 A Firefighters Battle with Cancer with Steve "Robbie" Burns

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#279 Resilience & Mental Fitness with Hadleigh Fischer

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#278 The Antarctic Fire Angels - Ordinary Women doing extraordinary things

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#277 Navigating Change with Joe Hassell

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#276 How we determine the fitness levels required of Firefighters with Tom Ashworth

247

Highrise Firefighting - The History, Lessons learned & what you need to know about how far we have come

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#275 Lars Axelsson The Swedish Fire Nerd

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Shirley Towers 6th April 2010 Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service - Incident Debrief

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#274 John Gregory & The British Firefighter Challenge 2024 LAUNCH

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Reflections, Ideas & book recommendations for 2024

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#273 Ryan Phillips - Creativity, being an oddball & How joining the fire service brought out the best in me

253

#272 Ian Dilks aka "DILKSY"

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The Watts Street Fire, Manhattan, FDNY - March 28th 1994 - Incident Debrief

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#271 What it takes to win a National BA Challenge

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#270 Authentic Leadership with Amy Croxton-Evans

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#269 Brigadier Chris Murray - Command, Leadership & Lessons from the CORE

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#268 Catherine Levin Editor, Emergency Services Times

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#267 Solving the problem of Heavy Vehicle Rescue & The Extrication Framework with Mike Maybin of IRRTC

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#266 Can Neurodiversity hold the key to progress & innovation in the Fire service with Miriam Heppel

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#265 PPE standards PFAS and what you need to know about the firekit your wearing with David Matthews

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#264 Richard Dunbar

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#263 Leadership, culture & how to have difficult conversations with James Coomber

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#262 Safer Smarter Deeper Learning with Dr James Mullins of FLAIM

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#261 What every professional Firefighter needs to know about Fire & Vehicle Investigation with Martin Lown UK's Leading SME

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Behind the scenes & Inside the Culture - Our visit to GORE

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The answer to Functional Hydration for First responders & Tactical athletes from the soldier who became a business maverick

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#260 Show me the bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen with Author Peter Apps

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#259 Dominik Wellmann Managing Director at The Fire Service College

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#258 Firefighter Apprentiships Assessing to the standard and the new breed of firefighter with Jim Clitheroe

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#257 From Soldier to Station Manager with Gary Devonport

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#256 John Lord - Immersive Training, Firefighter Cancer & Understanding the here, now & beyond

273

#255 The TRUTH about UK Wildfires & The Danger to Firefighters & the Public

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#254 Culture, Emotional Intelligence & the Privilege of being a firefighter with Chief Fire Officer Kathryn Billing

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#253 The Role of Data Science in the Future of Fire and Rescue with Apollo Gerolymbos

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INSIDE GORE - What I learnt from my time with the Team at Gore-Tex

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#252 The Last of the Dinosaurs with retired Firefighter & Officer Dave Hodge

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#251 Truth, Culture & Getting to the Heart of the Problem with Shaun Keep & Paul Adams from SAY SO

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#250 Andy Kirk - Incident command, the decision vortex and preserving common sense

280

#249 Effective Command with Dr Katherine Lamb

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#248 Mountains, Mindset & The National 3 Peaks in 24 hours

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#247 How to reduce your likelihood of getting cancer as a Firefighter with James Meredith from Stoke and Vent

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#246 British Firefighter Challenge 2023 with Jack Baker & Matt Adams

284

#245 James Geering - Lessons from a Podcaster & Life Behind the Shield

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#244 How the Fire Service, the EA & First responders protect our environment with Andrew Barnes & Ed Sullivan

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#243 Creator of the Smoke Curtain Dr Michael Reick

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#242 Be Seen, Be Saved - Reflective & Phosphorescent Technology with Luke Evdemon from Viz Reflective

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#241 The 999 RE:SET for First responder Mental & physical wellbeing in the outdoors

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#240 Dawn Whittaker CFO of East Sussex FRS

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#239 Fire Behaviour & Firecraft with Steve Luke

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#238 Rob Green from Firefighter to Station manager & back again

292

#237 From Recruit to Instructor with Sarah Bromley

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#236 Trenches, Trauma & Time Critical Rescue with Mike Maybin of IRRTC

294

WFS 2023 Women in the Fire Service UK National Training and Development Event

295

#235 Victoria Phillips Lead Veterinarian for UKISAR and Certified Coach

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#234 Ricky Lightfoot

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#233 Candace Miller SFJ Awards

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#232 Rudy Reyes, Warrior mindset & Operational readiness

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#231 Dan Quinn & Steve Sadler

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#230 Watch Manager Mark Peart

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#229 British Army veteran Tim Rushmere

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#228 Firefighter Tricky Ricky

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#227 The Perfect Gain Entry tool for First Responders with Firefighter Trevor Williams creator of Williams Key

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#226 Matt Chan talking CrossFit, Firefighting & how to Train for Longevity

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#225 An insight into the role of a CFO with Roger Thomas Chief Fire Officer at Mid & West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

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#224 Stefan Svensson

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#223 An answer to Electric vehicle fires with Neil Pedersen

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#222 Fire Department Humor with Tyrone Hurst

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#221 The solution to Decontaminating Firefighter PPE with Chris Colgan & HUNTER apparel solutions

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#220 The Comeback with Firefighter Zac Blackledge

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#219 Balmoral Bar incident Debrief Edinburgh 2009

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#218 Service, mindset, resilience & leadership with Chris Oliver of SAS Who Dares Wins

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#217 UKISAR deployment to the Turkey Earthquake

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#216 FAIR PAY, FIRE STRIKE's & Firefighter Safety with Leigh Hosy-Pickett

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Hillary Recruit 4 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Anne Recruit 19 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Charlotte Fisher Recuit 20 SAS Who Dares Wins

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#215 The Truth about lithium-ion batteries and the danger they pose with Professor Paul Christensen

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Amelia Michelle Recruit 1 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Faye Recruit 7 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Scott Recruit 15 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Becca Shaw Recruit 5 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Ross Young Recruit 8 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Daniel Dolan Recruit 9 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Danica Kennedy Recruit 10 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Levi Delvin Recruit 18 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Jordan Barker Porter Recruit 16 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Rosie Clarke Recruit 8 SAS Who Dares Wins

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Grant Flynn Recruit 2 SAS Who Dares Wins

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#203 Thinking under Pressure, Mindset & Red to Blue with Bede Brosnahan

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#202 Personal development, Progression & Culture with Dave Etheridge from Practice to Progress

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#201 Reading Fire, Fire Dynamics & Lessons learned with Fire Behaviour Legend & Author Shan Raffel

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#200 Loss, Bereavement, SAS WDW & Strongmen with Efrem Brynin

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#199 The Solution to On Call Recruitment & Retention with Steve Sadler

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#198 Structural Firefighting & Operational Training with Leading Firefighter Gerard Mann of Fire Rescue Victoria

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#197 Manchester Arena Bombing 2017 Incident Debrief

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#196 Strikes, Pay & Passion in the Job with Steve Dudeney

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#195 Teamwork & Trust with Leanne Player

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#194 The UK Pink Firefighter Team year end catch up

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#193 Psychological Health & Safety, Neurodiversity, Inclusion & Belonging with Jacqui Wilmshurst PhD CPsychol

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#192 How to NOT BECOME A PHYSICAL MESS over Christmas with Mark Pearce

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#191 Marathon Des Sables, Mental health & PTSD with James Bull

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#190 Paul Minter, 191 MARATHONS IN 218 DAYS & The Head Up Charity

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#189 The Keys to longevity & High Performance with Coach & Firefighter Andy Kay

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The Fire & Emergency awards 2022 round up

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#188 Building community trust based on data & social Science with Dr Christian Morgner

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#187 Fleur Lombard fatal Incident Debrief at Leos Supermarket February 4th 1996

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#186 Fire Magazine 2022 round up & Look ahead to the Excellence in Fire & Emergency Awards with Andrew Lynch

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#185 The 3 L's of the Fire Service with Ange Everington

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#184 Is LFB Institutionally misogynist and racist - The London Fire Brigade Independent Cultural Review

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#183 Scottish Accents, Mental health & Marathons in NYC with Mike McNab & Iain Ballantyne

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What to measure & where to focus with Mark Pearce Fitness for the Frontline

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Firefighter Pay - a brief recap on where we have come from & what we are facing today

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#181 Loving the job & not taking yourself too seriously with Gareth Smith

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#180 Marlie Farm Fatal Incident Debrief December 3rd 2006

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#179 Leadership, Work ethic & Wildland firefighting with California Assistant Fire Chief Chad Costa

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#177 UP IN SMOKE with Firefighter & Author Leigh Hosy-Pickett

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#176 EXIT PROJECT RECAP - Article from The Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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#175 Gillender Street Incident Debrief July 10th 1991

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#174 The most flexible & resilient scheduling & alerting software for firefighters with Cor Klaasse Bos from Fire Service Rota

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#173 The Extrication Evolution with the EXIT project & Dr Tim Nutbeam

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#172 Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction with Ex-firefighter, Instructor and author Ben Walker Part 2 of 2

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#171 RAF Nurse - Third cancer diagnosis, this time its incurable with Helen Crawford

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#170 Stories from the front line with Ex-firefighter, Instructor and author Ben Walker Part 1 fo 2

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#169 Paramedics, HART team, Family & Fitness with Paramedic Brad Wheeler of RESCUE FIT UK

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#168 Mentoring, work ethic & the desire to be become a great firefighter with Sam Cushing

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#167 Staying fit over a long career with Mark Pearce Fitness for the Frontline

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#166 Elite sport, mindset & training for high performance with S & C coach & Firefigthter Joe Warwick

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#165 Blaina Gwent Incident Debrief February 1996

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#164 Being medically retired, mastering pain & developing Long term health habits with Dave Vaux

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#163 Ventilation, Personal Development & Happy Firefighters with Karel Lambert

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#162 Incident Debrief into the Firefighter Fatality at an RTC on the A1M on June 16th 2007

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#161 People, perceptions & the hidden challenges we all face with Karl Bowden

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#160 Incident Debrief of the London Underground Fire at Kings Cross Station on November 18th 1987

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#159 Couples on the front line with Jamie & Jess Entwhistle

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#158 Steve Bartlett - Aviation Firefighting, Community Firefighters & DUTY CREW COFFEE

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#157 Steve Dudeney - LONDON FIREFIGHTER

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#156 Having difficult conversations

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#155 Firefighting, Family & Losing my brother - Simon Wilkens

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Athlete round up from The British Firefighter Challenge 2022

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#154 Roy Wilsher - HMI and his career in UKFRS

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Lee Sims & The British Firefighter Challenge 2022

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#153 Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service with CFO Rob Barber

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#152 Empty The Tank with Firefighter & International Rugby Player Jade Konkel

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#151 The Hobby that nearly killed me with Moto GP Legend & Retained firefighter Ivan Lintin

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#150 Incident Debrief of RFA Bedenham Gibraltor Fire Brigade 27th April 1951

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#149 Pushing your limits & nearly losing it all with Zac Blackledge

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#148 Wildland Firefighting with author Charles Vaught

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#147 Return of Matt Johnson BOOP & Mental Health

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#146 Incident Debrief of Atherstone-on-stour November 2007

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#145 Dave Widdup & Lessons learnt from 30yrs in UK Fire & rescue

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#144 Incident Debrief 56 Hilltop Crescent Sheffield February 2008 SYFR

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#143 Mark Hardingham & Why NFCC values and supports WFS

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#142 Chat with the Chiefs at WFS 2022

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#141 Women in the Fire Service UK National Training and Development Event

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#140 Incident Debrief - Flower Factory 2016

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Behind the scenes at The First ever Welsh Firefighter Challenge

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#139 From Mercenaries To Missionaries with Martin Murphy

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Cheshire Firefighter Challenge 2022 Fastest Female Chrissy Downer

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#138 Teamwork, Leadership & Adaptability with the UKISAR Heavy Team Exercise

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#137 Human Factors, Aviation & the story of Elaine Bromiley with Martin Bromiley Part 2

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#136 Human Factors, Aviation & the story of Elaine Bromiley with Martin Bromiley Part 1

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#135 How Not to Get Sacked - A Front Line Guide to Employment Law with Seb Walker

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#134 What to do with a TESLA on fire with Paul Shoemaker from Next Level Extrication

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#133 Firefighter in the ICU with Firefighter & Mentor Chris Sellick

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FLASHPOINT Cheshire Fire Challenge 2022 - The Season Begins

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#132 Stoicism & The Stoic Firefighter Steve Harris

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#131 Inside Rosenbauer UK with Nick Uwins & Andrew Smith

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Cymru am byth - The Welsh Firefighter Challenge Begins

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#130 "In the Bays" with Rosenbauer UK Managing Director Nick Uwins

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#129 The UKRAINE Convoy - Firefighters deliver LIFE saving equipment to the people of UKRAINE with SERA volunteer and Firefighter Mike Stachowicz

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#128 How to deliver a baby at an emergency incident with Front line Paramedic & Bullet dodging War journalist Alex Hepner

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#127 Shared Learning, personal development & supporting best practice with Fire Officer Ben Bee

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#126 State of the fire and rescue services from Home Affairs Committee with Chief Inspector Sir Tom Winsor, HM Inspector Roy Wilsher OBE & Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council Mark Hardingham

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#125 London Firefighters Walk the Walk with Mental Health Walking Groups supporting by The Firefighters Charity and their New mobile APP

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#124 Principled and effective humanitarian response with Sebastian Rhodes Stampa from UN OCHA

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#123 BreaktheBias on International Women's day with Women In The Fire Service

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A fire engine on the water - London Fire Boats & Rescues on the Thames with Sub Officer Lee Davies

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#122 Personal Prep, Logistics, Communications & Culture with UKISAR

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#121 Forensic Firefighting with James Sayer & Cat Maidment

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Lieutenant Colonel John Doone of the Kosovo Security Force hosts UK ISAR's Cold Weather Development Feb 2022

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An introduction to UK ISAR's 2022 Kosovo Cold Weather Development training with Russ Gauden

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#120 Creating a "Crew 1st Culture" with Jeremy Sanders

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#119 Surviving Highrise Fires & Thriving in the Fire Service - John Chubb

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#118 The Hardest Recruitment Course in UKFRS with Martin Foran & Ross Strother

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Gibraltar Everest Challenge - A Charity episode supporting Cancer Relief

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#117 Simon Hunter CEO of Hunter Apparel Solutions

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#116 Firefighting in Tall & Complex with a Foundation of Fire Behavior with John Chubb Part 1 of 2

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#115 The 2021 Greece Wildfire's Deployment of UKFRS with Dani Scott, Tracy Doyle & Joe Dennehy

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#114 CFBT Non-Negotiable's & Shared Expectations with John McDonough Part 2 of 2

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Firefighters Fighting Cancer - The Next UK Pink Firefighters Challenge - FLASHPOINT with Dean Keeber & James McCall

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#113 CFBT Non-Negotiable's & Shared Expectations with John McDonough Part 1 of 2

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#112 Matt Adams & Zoe Partridge - Couples on The front line

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#111 Front Line Media Mastery with Mary Murtagh

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#110 Recognising & Celebrating at The Fire & Emergency Awards 2021 with FIRE MAGAZINE

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#109 Drones for Good with Patrique Pi Zaman Founder & CEO of AVY

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#108 21st Century Firefighting & The Digital Upgrade with Neil Griffiths

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#107 "WHAT THE RUCK" - England Women's Fire Service Rugby with Kirsty Openshaw

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FLASHPOINT Mark Risdale from AVON PROTECTION at ESS 2021

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FLASHPOINT Bringing Firefighters Home with Liz Millward from Draeger

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#106 Virtually anything is possible with Jennifer Collins of JDC Events

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#105 The state of Mental Wellbeing on the Front Line with Andy Bibby of 87%

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FLASHPOINT with Andy Bibby from 87%

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FLASHPOINT Dan Bathurst at the BFC 2021

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FLASHPOINT Matt Adams at the BFC 2021

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#104 Home Life Safety & The Technology behind it with Paul Cartwright from AICO

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FLASHPOINT Ruth Powell & Vedelin Clique at BFC2021

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#103 Making The First Call - A conversation on accessing support with AJ Whitaker from The Firefighters Charity

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FLASHPOINT Aurelie Favre from MSA at the BFC 2021

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FLASHPOINT with The "NOTORIOUS" Budge Brothers Dave and Rob at BFC2021

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FLASHPOINT John Gregory at the BFC 2021

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#102 Raising the Standard with Steve North from IRRTC

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FLASHPOINT with Julian from TUFFKING

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FLASHPOINT Candace Miller Skills for Justice

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FLASHPOINT David Brown Emergency Services Show 2021

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#101 Cheshire Fire Challenge round up 2021 with organizers Mark & Ryan

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#100 Firefighter Success: The 20 C's to Firefighter Excellence with Jim Moss

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#099 British Firefighter Challenge Countdown with Organisers Mickey, Chris & John

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#098 It Started with a Helmet: A Retired Firefighter’s Return to New York City the Day Before 9/11 with Jerry Sanford

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#097 Clive Bush & The Rope World within the Emergency services sector

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#096 Firefighter Functional Fitness with authors Jim moss & Dan Kerrigan

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#095 Jimmy Johnson - Front Line lessons in Life & Leadership from a Las Vegas Firefighter, Father, Mentor and Eternal student

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#094 Alan Knell & The Firefighters Charity

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#093 Bridgend Extrication Team - Specialising in Extrication

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#092 Fire Magazine & Fire Knowledge with Andrew Lynch

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#091 Walking the Walk not just Talking the Talk with Firefighter & World record holder Charlie Thompson

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#090 Tara Cornett - Personal Health & Wellbeing for Front line Firefighters with FLAME NATURAL DECON

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#089 Paul Combs - Drawn by Fire

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#088 Ross Neethling - THE WAR VET - from Soldier to Veterinarian

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#087 Kara Judd - St. Florian Fitness, Leadership Fundamentals & Becoming a First in your Department

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#086 GODIVA - Serving the firefighting community worldwide with Laeticia Mace & Craig Reeves

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#085 Ben Vessey - Being a Royal Marine in Life & Business

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#084 Nathan Ashe Dealing with Change, Handling Challenge & Supporting the Firefighters Charity

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#083 The Success that comes with every TRIUMPH with Jonny Garrett of William Wood Watches

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#082 Not Easily Swayed - Reflecting on The Good, The Bad & The Ugly aspects of the Fire Service with retired firefighter Gary Chamberlain

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#081 Heroes wear HAIX with Simon Ash

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#080 Simon Thompson - The Physical Resilience & Psychological Strength of the 44k Optimist

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#079 Stewart Sparling, The Treble One Trust & The story of the emergency services Family

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#078 Josephine Reynolds - FIRE WOMAN - the first full-time female firefighter in the UK

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#077 Alider Pratts Leadership, Passion & Promotional Prep

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#076 Ruth Lee Ltd - FOR PROFESSIONALS WHO SAVE LIVES with Sarah Hampson & Stuart Cheetham

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#075 35 years in FDNY from Probie to Chief & from the Fire Academy to Ground zero with Dan Melia

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#074 Brent DeNure & Vintage Fire Truck Equipment

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#073 Matt Fulcher & The Fitness Brigade

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#072 Hayley Brackley - Coaching, Training & Leadership Development

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#071 Brigade-2-Brigade with Charlie Thompson

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#044 Kev Ruane - The International Firefighter