Thursday 9pm ET: “We Have a Situation; Are You Aware?”

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Check out Taking it to the Streets with Christopher Naum on Firefighter NetCast.com this Thursday night August 19th at 9pm ET with a live online radio call-in show addressing the most current issues affecting the Fire Service.

The direct show link is here. Live at 9pm EST

This month Christopher Naum’s guests include Battalion Chief Matt Tobia with the Anne Arundel County, MD Fire Department, a metropolitan combination Fire / Rescue / EMS agency in Suburban Baltimore, MD and Battalion Chief Greg W. Collier, Mount Laurel Fire Department, NJ and NFFF/EGH Region II Advocate discussing  the emerging and prevailing issues related to situational awareness on the fireground and incident scene and its relationship to firefighter safety or operational integrity.  The show is titled; “We Have a Situation; Are you Aware?”

Go to www.FirefighterNetCast.com to listen and participate live, with a national and international audience of firefighters, officers and commanders from rural heartlands of Oklahoma to the suburbs of Chicago and the urban streets of DC. Or download the program later in the week for later use. Check out the premiere show with featured guests Chief Billy Hayes (DCFD) and Chief Doug Cline (High Point FD, NC).  Also, if you haven’t taken the time, check out the latest on the FireEMS Blogs Community at CommandSafety.com and TheCompanyOfficer.com. Taking it to the Streets is a Buildingsonfire.com Series and Fire Fighter NetCast.com Production.

B/C Matthew Tobia, Anne Arundel County (MD) Fire Department

Matthew Tobiais a Battalion Chief with the Anne Arundel County, MD Fire Department, a metropolitan combination Fire / Rescue / EMS agency in Suburban Baltimore, MD. With over 19 years of diverse experience, B/C is currently working as the Chief of Training at the Department’s Training and Research Division.

B/C Tobia holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Maryland and is a nationally certified Fire Officer IV and Instructor II. He teaches extensively throughout the United States, and is an Adjunct Instructor at the Pennsylvania State Fire Academy. He has served on curriculum development teams at the Maryland Fire Rescue Institute for Fire Officer certification programs, and has also been actively involved in program development at the Pennsylvania Fire Academy for Rapid Intervention, Fire Fighter Survival, and Trench Rescue. Chief Tobia also writes for several national publications.

Matt is active in supporting the families of fallen firefighters, serving as the Department Honor

Guard Commander, and is the family escort coordinator at

Battalion Chief Greg W. Collier, Mount Laurel Fire Department, NJ

the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. In addition, Chief Tobia is a counselor at the Mid Atlantic Burn Camp for children.