The Weekly Scrap, Firefighter Podcast

Joined by Chief Ben Hoeppner to talk all about setting our young people up for success in their fire service careers. We will talk about handlines, firefighter challenges, and the progression of fire culture. It was an awesome conversation with tons of questions from the audience, and a lot of rabbit holes to go down.

Ray is coming on to talk about live fire training and the challenges the modern fire service is facing!!!On April 9th, 2022 Ray McCormack posted "The Fire service needs to bring live fire training up a notch by working on replicating today's fires for today's firefighters."The post went viral, and sparked hundreds of comments and questions. Ray is coming on the Scrap to discuss all of the comments, questions and concerns and to give his opinions on what can be done to address the issue.

Joined on this episode by Mickey Farrell, We talk about the importance of turning mindset into skillset, gaining position on the fire, understanding and developing flowstate, and that does not even include everything the audience threw our way! Was an amazing scrap, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

The audience was amazing and the live Scrap was outstanding! Good questions were submitted and there was not a single inflated ego on the panel.  Just solid firefighters sharing their passion. Dennis Legear, Todd Edwards, Kyle Romagus, Clyde Gordon, Mo Davis, Howard Rhinewalt, Jacob Johnson... so much knowledge in one place! it was an epic evening!

The second Mega Scrap is amazing! Rob Ramirez, Bassel Ibrahim and Jim McCormack absolutely crushed the topic of MAYDAY and RIT. It was an unbelievable conversation as they deep dove into everything RIT operations and MAYDAY from three of the best in the business! The audience absolutely drove the conversation and it was one of the best Scraps to date!

Joined on this episode by Chief David Rhodes, the Smoke Daddy himself. We discuss too many topics to list them all, but including...  Smoke Divers, Decision Making, Training Under Stress, Experiential Training, Search, Search Size Up, UL Research, Post Traumatic Boss Syndrome vs PTSD, Leadership, FDIC H.O.T.,... not to mention everything the audience threw our way.  The entire episode is on fire, but the last hour, from the final (uninterrupted day) might be some of the best content the Scrap has ever put out.This was the single most challenging episode of the Scrap to date. The internet would not cooperate with the live show and interrupted us multiple times. It was distracting and broke the flow.  Chief Rhodes was the epitome of a professional and absolutely rolled with the punches, and I cannot thank him enough. Turned out to be an amazing episode.

Joined on this episode by Rob Fisher, and it was an awesome conversation. Trying to make this one happen for quite a while, and the stars finally aligned. We talked motivation. leadership, culture, training, quints, plus everything the audience threw our way!

Joined on this episode by Mike Gagliano, one of my favorite people in the fire service. We discussed his philosophy on developing a great firehouse, house pride, trust, teamwork... then switched gears to talk about decision making on the fireground! You do not want to miss this one, the audience threw a lot at us, and Mike absolutely destroyed the next five questions!

Awesome conversation with Steve Stawecki. Was able to pick his brain on on training, fighting back from injury mentally and physically... the challenges of being a training officer, especially in the long haul...  as well as what motivates and inspires each of us. And of course as always, whatever the audience threw our way. He gave his suggested books, and then crushed the Next Five Questions!

Joined by Nick Esposito of Truck Tactics Training on this 128th episode of the Scrap! Topics included taking the training past the 'what' and 'how', results oriented performance, NIOSH reports, learning from them not judging them... plus everything the audience threw our way! Was an amazing Scrap!