The Voice of Reason will welcome special guest Shawn Longerich, Executive Director for the Cyanide Poisoning Treatment Coalition (CPTC)

The direct link to the live show is here

On Thursday, July 29th, Firefighter Netcast Presents The Voice of Reason will welcome special guest Shawn Longerich, Executive Director for the Cyanide Poisoning Treatment Coalition (CPTC) and can be found on the world wide web at www.FireSmoke.org. The mission of the CPTC is to “focus the required attention and resources on the issues, the CPTC aims to increase awareness about the risk of fire smoke cyanide exposure as it relates to Awareness, Prevention, Protection, Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment”. Please join me and my guest, Shawn Longerich at 9:00 pm EDT on Thursday, July 29th for a very special evening as we explore the poisons in what we commonly call “smoke”

The Premiere of Christopher Naum’s “Taking It to the Streets”

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Taking it to the Streets premiered right here on  Wednesday July 21st 9:00pm ET

The first show topic is “What’s on YOUR Radar Screen”?
Check out what’s on of off your radar screen on CommandSafety.com

Christopher J. Naum, SFPE is a 35-year fire service veteran and a former Fire Chief/ Fire & Safety Coordinator at a U.S nuclear power plant and previously served as a commanding company officer for over twenty years in field operations with a volunteer fire department in Central New York. He is presently the Chief of Training for the Command Institute; a Washington, DC based emergency management & training organization with a focus on research, development & policy insights . A nationally recognized authority on building construction, structural collapse and command management, he has traveled throughout the United States, and internationally delivering training programs on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety. (more info)

The show is being produced by Firefighter Netcast; the home of The Firefighter Netcast Show, The Voice of Reason, and Firefighter Storytellers.

Christopher Naum was an easy choice for creating another content rich radio show on Firefighter Netcast. After meeting Chris at FDIC, we quickly began discussing a show relating to Chris’s expertise in Command Safety and Officer Development. Chris is a seasoned speaker on many fire service topics. His knowledge, experience, and expertise in its delivery will be well served through live radio! Plan on listening in live or in syndication. Join the discussion and follow his blogs!

Taking it to the Streets is a Buildingsonfire.com Series and Fire Fighter Netcast.com Production

Check out Buildingsonfire on Facebook and Twitter

There are plenty of banners to post on your site to tell everyone about the premier show!

Podcasting at Firehouse Expo

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The crew here at Firefighter Netcast has been having a blast at Firehouse Expo. We have recorded almost two dozen podcasts with various guests. We are in the process of editing them as well as Chris Naum’s “Taking it to the Streets” debut episode.

Here is our first offering from Firehouse Expo. We were happy to have Robbie and Danny Owens stop by the booth and we promptly got them set up to do an impromptu podcast!

Robbie is a master firefighter for the Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire. Danny is a firefighter for the Richmond (VA) Department of Emergency Services. Together they run the Average Jake Firefighter Blog.

They are fans of Firefighter Netcast and we have had Robbie as a caller on several of our shows. These two brothers are great guys all around and students of all things related to new and improved firefighter tactics.

Enjoy the podcast!

The Debut of Taking It To The Streets with Christopher Naum Live July 21st at 9pm

Taking it to the Streets is Premiering Wednesday July 21st 9:00pm ET
Live right here on Firefighter Netcast.com

The first show topic is “What’s on YOUR Radar Screen”?
Check out what’s on of off your radar screen on CommandSafety.com

The direct link to the live show is here

Christopher J. Naum, SFPE is a 35-year fire service veteran and a former Fire Chief/ Fire & Safety Coordinator at a U.S nuclear power plant and previously served as a commanding company officer for over twenty years in field operations with a volunteer fire department in Central New York. He is presently the Chief of Training for the Command Institute; a Washington, DC based emergency management & training organization with a focus on research, development & policy insights . A nationally recognized authority on building construction, structural collapse and command management, he has traveled throughout the United States, and internationally delivering training programs on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety. (more info)

The show is being produced by Firefighter Netcast; the home of The Firefighter Netcast Show, The Voice of Reason, and Firefighter Storytellers.

Christopher Naum was an easy choice for creating another content rich radio show on Firefighter Netcast. After meeting Chris at FDIC, we quickly began discussing a show relating to Chris’s expertise in Command Safety and Officer Development. Chris is a seasoned speaker on many fire service topics. His knowledge, experience, and expertise in its delivery will be well served through live radio! Plan on listening in live or in syndication. Join the discussion and follow his blogs!

- Firefighter Netcast

If you’ve never listened to a FirefighterNetcast, visit the site now, sign up for a new user account for BlogTalkRadio, and be prepared to join in the conversation Wednesday night.

Listen in via the Internet, listen and/or participate by calling in, and join in the live chat that takes place amongst listeners while the show is going on. In case you miss the live show, you can even download the recording after the fact on FirefighterNetcast and iTunes too. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s easy.

Taking it to the Streets is a Buildingsonfire.com Series and Fire Fighter Netcast.com Production

Check out Buildingsonfire on Facebook and Twitter

There are plenty of banners to post on your site to tell everyone about the premier show!

Firefighter Storytellers – Live with Tim Sendelbach July 14 at 9pm EST

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Tiger Schmittendorf continues his ”Firefighter Storytellers” series on the FirefighterNetcast Internet radio show network on Wednesday-July 14,2010 at 9pm EDT with special guest Tim Sendelbach.

The direct link to the live show on Blog Talk Radio is here!

Chief Sendelbach is a 24-year fire service veteran and Editor-in-Chief of FireRescue Magazine. Like many others, Tim’s roots in the fire service started with his Dad, a fire chief in his hometown of Wilder, Kentucky.

Tim will share stories of his upbringing in the American Fire Service along with photos and reflections on the influence his father and the tragically historic Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire had on the start and success of his career.

Listen in, call in and follow Tim on his journey from Run-to-the-Curb kid to Fire Service Leader.

Firefighter Storytellers is designed simply to facilitate kitchen table type discussions between firefighters. “Storytellers” is an open-format radio show in which listeners are encouraged to call in with their own stories of what brought them to the fire service, what’s made the experience memorable for them, and to share their insight as to what keeps them going day-in and day-out, serving in our business of delivering emergency services to our communities.

If you’ve never listened to a FirefighterNetcast, visit the site now, sign up for a new user account for BlogTalkRadio, and be prepared to join in the conversation Wednesday night.

Listen in via the Internet, listen and/or participate by calling in, and join in the live chat that takes place amongst listeners while the show is going on. In case you miss the live show, you can even download the recording after the fact on FirefighterNetcast and iTunes too. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s easy.

Happy Hour Part II

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You can listen to part II of the Happy Hour with Justin “The Happy Medic” Schorr here.

To listen to Part I click here.

Happy Hour with Guest Host Justin Schorr

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This show aired on July 6, 2010 and features Justin Schorr, The Happy Medic, in a recurring program we call the Happy Hour.  It gives Justin the opportunity to address some of the stories and topics of interest to him along with a hearty invitation for the live audience to chime in with their comments, concerns, and criticisms.

Part I is attached. Part II is here.

Justin talked about four Sacramento firefighters injured in a house explosion.  An interesting sidebar to this call was the homeowner’s curious reaction to the firefighter’s activities.  See my blog over at Fire Daily to read about how this guy earned Fire Daily’s Wingnut of the Week.

Justin also comments on Alton, IL firefighters who were fired upon when responding to a dumpster fire during the neighborhood’s “celebration” of Independence Day.  Next up, Justin points us to a video of a firefighter bailing out a window immediately upon the command to evacuate the building.

Talk begins to turn toward Rapid Intervention Teams, or Crews.  They may go by a different name in your area, but they are tasked with purpose- to be immediately available to affect the rescue of downed firefighters should that need arise.  With several callers, we discuss the various make-ups of a RIT/RIC team, and the different procedures they may follow in performing their duties.  We also discuss the role mutual aid plays in the formation and response of a RIT/RIC team.

RIT/RIC talk continues after a break, and in segment two Justin offers his disdainful view of the quint apparatus, which he refers to as a political apparatus composed by committee which replicates an engine and a ladder with an engine/ladder.  On paper, it looks pretty.  On the fireground, it just doesn’t work that way.

The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) published in their May-June magazine their report of what happens on the fireground with various staffing.  The amazing result hidden within that data?  We do better when more of us arrive later.

In other words, four firefighters responding from further away accomplish a fireground task more quickly than a three-person crew responding from a closer location.  The implications are potentially dangerous to firefighters in that agencies may decide to close stations and increase response time with apparatus staffed with extra manpower.

Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) fans and their use on the fireground draws Justin’s ire next.  It’s probably because, in many if not most instances, the PPV is not used in conjunction with our brains.  As we introduce exactly what the fire needs to exactly where the fire wants it, we need to be sure that what happens is exactly what we want to occur.  In most of the videos out there, this isn’t what is happening.

Finally, we close the show with a look at Chronicles of EMS and the competition currently taking place. Ted Setla, producer of a new TV Reality Series starring our own Justin Schorr and Mark Glencorse from the United Kingdom brings us up to date with all their activities.

Look for future Happy Hour programs on finer podcasts throughout the interwebs, as well as right here at Firefighter Netcast!

Our next show will be this Wednesday, July 14 at 9pm ET.  Firefighter Storytellers sits down with Chief Tim Sendelbach, a 24-year fire service veteran and Editor-in-Chief of FireRescue Magazine.

Like many others, Tim’s roots in the fire service started with his Dad, a firefighter in his hometown of Bellevue, Kentucky.  Tim will share stories of his upbringing in the American Fire Service along with photos and reflections on the influence his father and the tragically historic Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire had on the start and success of his career.

Listen in, call in and follow Tim on his journey from Run-to-the-Curb kid to Fire Service Leader.

Tuesday, July 6- Happy Hour with guest Justin Schorr

Join us at 9pm ET, 6pm PT for an exciting episode of the Happy Hour, with left coast firefighter/paramedic Justin Schorr, Senior Blogmeister over at Happy Medic.

Rhett is off on assignment, so it will just be John and Justin, and hopefully YOU!

Firefighter Netcast – Safe Firefighter of the Month Program with PA Fire Commissioner Ed Mann and Bruce Lear

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Firefighter NetCast is extremely proud to bring you a very special show with Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Ed Mann, and Bruce Lear with Hale Pumps.  Together, they are spearheading a new effort called Safe Firefighter of the Month.  They quickly gained the eager blessing of the Every Goes Home program brought to us by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

The program is designed to recognize the efforts of individual firefighters who clearly demonstrate one or more of the Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives.  We go over the process of nominating an individual for the monthly awards and how the winner is selected.

The program also offers resources to individual departments to award their own members a Safe Firefighter of the Month award, complete with recognition certificates, posters, etc.  Go on over to Safe Firefighter of the Month and demonstrate your department’s recognition of the importance the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives have in your department.

Commissioner Mann admits he only initiated the challenge, and gives Hale Pumps most all of the credit for taking this program and running with it.  In fact, on the night we taped this show, July 1, 2010, congratulations are due to Delbert Lewis of the Howell County (MO) Rural Fire District for winning the program’s first ever Safe Firefighter of the Month.

After a quick break, we asked Commissioner Mann about the ongoing debate that we are going overboard with the safety message making us less aggressive as firefighters.  His response helped clear up some of the misconceptions that many have regarding this hot-button issue.

Another controversial subject was addressed.  What is the role of minimum standards for firefighters?  Commissioner Mann talks specifically about his state, but everybody nationally is suffering with the same issues.

A Virginia caller endorses the efforts of Commissioner Mann in his state, as well as training centers in other states, in the value of education of firefighters nationwide.

A chatroom guest asked how to get more information on the Safe Firefighter of the Month Program.  Bruce suggested anyone interested to contact Rita Leonard at Hale Pump.  Rita is the Manager of the Marketing Services Group and can supply all sorts of resources for web pages, posters, etc.  Bruce Lear can be reached by phone at 610-825-6300.

Finally, the newest member of the Firefighter NetCast programming family joins us with the announcement of his premiere, “Taking It to the Streets” on July 21, 2010.  It’s a natural outgrowth of Chris’ fields of expertise found in writing at CommandSafety.com and TheCompanyOfficer.com.  Now he brings his discussions to you live and welcomes your input in the show.

Christopher J. Naum, SFPE is a 34-year fire service veteran and a former Fire Chief/Fire Protection & Safety Coordinator at a nuclear power plant in the Northeastern United States, where he managed site-wide fire protection & industrial safety and previously served as a commanding company officer for over twenty years in field operations with a volunteer fire department in New York. A nationally recognized authority on building construction, structural collapse and command management, he has traveled throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom delivering training programs on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety. He is the Chief of Training for the Command Institute, a Washington, DC based emergency management & training organization.

An Adjunct Instructor with the National Fire Academy, he specializes in training courses for Structural Collapse, Building Construction and Firefighter Safety & Health. A Contributing Editor with Firehouse Magazine since 1988 and Firehouse.com since 2002, he has authored numerous articles on building construction, firefighting operations, command, leadership and special technical rescue operations. He is the author of the monthly column “Structural Anatomy” at Firehouse.com focusing on building construction, command risk management and firefighter safety. He was the 1987 ISFSI George D. Post National Fire Instructor of the Year as presented by the International Society of Fire Service Instructors.

The Second Vice President with the International Society of Fire Service Instructors, he is an active supporter and participant of the NFFF, The Everyone Goes Home Initiatives and the Near Miss Reporting Systems. A member of the IAFC since 1987, he served over ten years as a charter member of the IAFC Urban Rescue Structural Collapse Committee and is a member of the SH&S Section and the VCOS. He serves on the Board of Directors with the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Safety, Health & Survival Section (IAFC SH&S) and on the Board of Directors of the Open Fire Academy International (OFA). He is authoring a new text book on Building Construction for the Fire Services integrating architecture & construction technology, command risk management and firefighter safety and continues to present his popular structural anatomy building construction training series throughout the United States and internationally.

And now, he’s one of us!

Stay tuned to Firefighter NetCast for more of the finest programming for firefighters on the net!

The Firefighter Netcast Show Live July 1, 2010 9pm Safe Firefighter of the Month Program With Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Ed Mann

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The Firefighter Netcast Show Live July 1, 2010 9pm With Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Ed Mann and Hale’s Bruce Lear. We will be discussing the Safe Firefighter of the Month Program. The program is a joint venture between the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation and Hale.

The direct link to our Blog Talk Radio show is here

About Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Ed Mann
Edward A. Mann was reappointed as the State Fire Commissioner by Governor Edward G. Rendell in November 2003. Commissioner Mann was appointed as the fourth State Fire Commissioner of the Commonwealth by Governor Tom Ridge in July 2000.
Ed has extensive background in emergency services having started with the Logan and Undine Fire Companies in Bellefonte, Centre County.

Ed has served in the United States Air Force as a Fire Protection Specialist.  After his retirement from the service he worked for Senators J. Doyle Corman and Jake Corman as an Executive Assistant in the 34th Senatorial District.

Hale Steps Up to Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner’s Challenge to Help Reduce Firefighter Fatalities

In 2009, 93 on-duty firefighter fatalities were reported to U.S. Fire Administration. Hoping to reduce that number, Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Edward Mann posed a safety challenge in September 2009 to fire industry manufacturers nationwide. Hale has answered Commissioner Mann’s call with the development of SafeBuy™, a complete suppression agent delivery system designed from the ground up to support firefighter safety. Hale launched SafeBuy at FDIC 2010.

“Hale has always stressed operational performance excellence in our products, which makes them fundamentally safe and reliable,” said Bruce Lear, Hale’s vice president of sales and marketing. “When we heard that Commissioner Mann saw an additional opportunity for manufacturers across the board to make safety a top priority, we realized that offering new premium safety features completely standard on a pump module would help firefighters avoid as many human errors as possible, providing the best protection for their lives.”

Commissioner Mann said that his call to manufacturers stemmed from a larger nationwide program from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation aimed at increasing safety awareness among firefighters. The campaign, known as “Courage to Be Safe,” introduced 16 safety initiatives for firefighters to follow in 2005. Since then, Commissioner Mann has overseen almost 150 “Courage to be Safe” sessions in Pennsylvania, with more than 9,800 attendees. Similar activities surrounding the program are taking place in other states.

Since initiating “Courage to Be Safe” education sessions in his home state, Commissioner Mann reports that the number of line of duty deaths in Pennsylvania has decreased from 18 to less than 10 per year. He hopes that by producing safer equipment, manufacturers can help to further reduce that number across the country.

“The way to reduce firefighter injury or death is by continuous improvement of training and equipment design,” said Commissioner Mann. “It’s important for all fire industry manufacturers to step up to this challenge and develop safer fire suppression systems.”

For more information about the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation’s “Courage to Be Safe” initiative, visit www.everyonegoeshome.com.

New Safe Firefighter of the Month Program Recognizes Outstanding Performance
Campaign sponsored by Hale and National Fallen Firefighter Foundation launches at FDIC 2010

Firefighters serve a sacred duty to protect life and property in their communities, but they also must serve a higher duty to themselves and their family to stay safe and healthy. Hale takes firefighter safety seriously, and that’s why it has partnered with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) to sponsor the Safe Firefighter of the Month Recognition Program.

The Safe Firefighter of the Month program is designed to help firefighters focus on the 16 Life Safety Initiatives outlined in the NFFF’s “Courage to Be Safe” campaign. Fire companies that would like to participate in the program can obtain a kit from Hale that contains everything they need to honor those individuals who go above and beyond to make health and safety a priority.

Each month, fire departments are encouraged to nominate a Safe Firefighter of the Month and present him or her with a certificate provided in the program kit. Monthly winners can be submitted to Hale as nominations for National Safe Firefighter of the Month at www.safe-firefighter.com. Each month, a top candidate will be chosen from the submissions made by firehouses across the U.S., and the winners and nominees will have their photos and profiles displayed on the Web site.

In June 2011, Hale and the NFFF will select a “Safe Firefighter of the Year” from among the monthly winners. Hale will award a health and safety prize package to the firehouse of the winning firefighter.

For more information about the Safe Firefighter of the Month program, visit
www.safe-firefighter.com.

The Voice of Reason: Politics and Your Fire Department- Working With Your Representative

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“If you help a fire department, you help the entire community.”

Be prepared to enter the world of fire legislation and gain an understanding on how to advance the issues near and dear to your agency to the point where they become state law.

Illinois State Representative Donald Moffitt (R-Gilson) has truly been an invaluable asset to the Illinois fire service.  He is the committee chair of the Fire Protection Committee, and served as co-chair of the Fire Department Funding House Task Force, which we’ll detail in this program. Throughout his service as representative since 1992, Don has earned several awards and accolades from various agencies across the state.

As we begin, Representative Moffitt talks about his beginnings in the state legislature and how he developed a special fondness for the fire service.  Above all, he offers this advice: “I would urge all fire departments to be on a first name basis with their legislators.”

Representative Moffitt helped establish the Illinois Fire Task Force, out of which came the Illinois Fire Caucus, which regularly meets with the fire service (chiefs, inspectors, firefighters, trustees) in search of ideas that garners unanimous support from all corners of the fire service.  Once those are identified and receive unanimous consent by the fire service, they are then advanced through the legislative process with a resounding level of success.

Key legislation for which Representative Moffitt and others have been able to bring to reality includes the incredibly popular Zero-percent (interest free) revolving loan fund for which approximately 140 pieces of apparatus have been purchased interest-free throughout the State of Illinois. As the loans are repaid, the funds are made available to new applicants, making this a perpetual program.

Some of the funding for these programs comes from the imposition of additional fines on certain traffic offenses, as well as the ability for a judge to make an award to a local responding agency in which certain traffic laws were violated.

Art asks Don to walk us through the legislative process of the making of a law, from an idea to the Governor’s signature.  The representative distinguishes the necessary role of a fire agency involved in the legislative process from that of an agency just becoming “political”.  He talks about all the various entities that may have an interest in the issue being legislated, and describes the role of the lobbyist in the process.

Discussion turned to legislation currently awaiting the Governor’s signature regarding the new class of licensure in Illinois called Critical Care Transport, enabling the same level of care offered by helicopters transportation that is offered by helicopters for inter-hospital transports.

During that process the Illinois Department of Public Health identified a very few EMT licenses which had been issued to convicted sex felons.  Previously there was no law prohibiting that.  Now, new legislation has been drafted to enable IDPH to revoke those licenses, and awaits the Governor’s signature.

Finally, Art presses Don for some insight into his personal interests and fun activities, and we end the show with some great advice applicable to firefighters all across the nation.

The next Voice of Reason program is scheduled for July 28.  Watch here for more information!

The Voice of Reason Live at 9pm June 24, 2010 – Politics and Your Fire Department – Working With Your Representative

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Join Art Goodrich on “The Voice of Reason” with special guest Illinois State Representative Donald L. Moffitt for discussion on “Politics and Your Fire Department-Working With Your Representative”.

The show will be live at 9pm on June 24th. Plan on listening in, chatting, and calling in with your questions if you would like!

The direct link for the show is here.

Art and Donald plan on discussing politics and how firefighters can get involved. Art plans to include some “trade secrets” on how to approach your representatives and the ins and outs of what to say and how to say it!

Donald has a long history of support for firefighters and has been hailed as a well recognized supporter of fire departments and initiatives in his State.

Donald L. Moffitt

Illinois State Representative 74th District

Making Our Communities a Safer Place to Live and Work
Working to make our communities a safer place to live and work, Moffitt has made public safety a top priority. Thanks to the efforts of Representative Moffitt, the 94th District (his former legislative district) was one of the first districts in the State of Illinois to equip every fire department with life-saving technology such as thermal imaging cameras. In addition, many area public safety officials were able to trade outdated equipment for the latest advanced live-saving equipment.

The American Red Cross recognized Moffitt for his commitment to the health and safety of his constituents after he obtained automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for area police departments. As co-chairman of the House Fire Protection Task Force, a bipartisan committee working to ensure that fire departments have the funding to purchase needed equipment and gear, Representative Moffitt helped to establish a No-interest Revolving Fire Truck Loan available to all Illinois Fire Prevention Districts. Hailed by several area
fire departments for his efforts, he was named Honorary Firefighter by Clover Township, Honorary Chief of Altona Fire Protection District and Honorary Paramedic by Galesburg Hospitals Ambulance Service. Moffitt was selected the 2002 Legislator of the Year by the Illinois Association of Fire Protection Districts, and Illinois Firefighters Association named him “Legislator of the Year” in 2003 for his support of the Fire Service of Illinois.

In 2005, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board cited the work of Rep. Moffitt in support of law enforcement professionals by presenting him with the Distinguished Service Award.

Following passage of a bill requiring safe measures be in force before permitting pre-planned prairie burns, The Nature Conservancy awarded Rep. Moffitt their Acorn Award in 2007, for his leadership on significant initiatives affecting the environment.

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In 2003 the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association selected Representative Moffitt and Representative Mike Smith (D-Canton) both as Legislators of the Year for their work in support of firefighters. In 2004 the Northern Illinois Alliance of Fire Protection Districts selected both Representative Don Moffitt and Representative Mike Smith as their Legislators of the Year. In 2005, the Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board named Rep. Moffitt recipient of their Distinguished Service Award.

Firefighter Netcast Live with The Fire PIO Jeff Bressler

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Firefighter Netcast will be live on June 17th at 9pm EST. Our guest will be Jeff Bressler “The Fire PIO” (http://thefirepio.com).

Join John, Rhett, and Jeff as we discuss all things related to Public Information.

The direct link for the show is here

Jeff has a unique writing style and the ability to dissect, explain, and critique many incidents with regards to the actions of PIO’s and others who speak on behalf of organizations.

Jeff Bressler is the Public Information Officer for the Smithtown Fire Department located on the North Shore of Long Island’s Suffolk County. An all volunteer department, Smithtown answers over 3,000 fire and EMS calls annually www.smithtownfd.org.

Bressler is also a member of Engine Comany 3.  He was  a Smithtown Firefighter of the Year in 2004.

A PR and marketing professional, Jeff has over 20 years of hands on experience on both sides of the fence. In addition to PR and marketing responsibilities he is also a member of the media. Bressler serves as News Editor for Motor Trend Radio. This unique blend of two related careers gives Jeff a unique perspective from two different views. Jeff also serves as a brand ambassador for Chevron-Texaco.

Jeff is a member of the National Information Officers Association, International Fire Photographers Association, Public Relations Professionals of Long Island, Fair Media Council, International Motor Press Association, New York Press Club, Long Island Press Club and the American Marketing Association.

Bressler is deeply involved in philanthropy and currently serves as Chairman of Human Resource Charities of America and Neighbor to Nation.

The Fire PIO

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