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In this week’s The Command Post podcast, hosts Lt. Rom Duckworth and Chief Rob Wylie discuss why firefighters in Reno, Nev. are being laid off due to the department’s inability to regain a SAFER grant.
“The story touches on the kinds of things that are affecting fire departments all around the country,” Lt. Duckworth said. “The biggest part of this is the danger to rely on grants to secure your staffing. Sometimes it can get pulled out from under you.”
Lt. Duckworth and Chief Wylie also talk about traffic incident management in their frontline tactical tips segment.
“One of the best quotes I’ve heard was from a fire chief on this exact topic and he tells his people to always operate like people are trying to run you over,” Lt. Duckworth said.
Traffic is one of the most dangerous environments that firefighters work in. “It’s real easy to get sucked into that tunnel vision of cutting someone out of a car, attending to a patient and we forget that are 18,000-pound missiles are going past us at 40-50mph,” Chief Wylie said.
They also conduct an interview with Fire Chief Dennis Rubin, former fire chief of D.C. and Atlanta, about how to manage change in the fire service.
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Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:
Reno city council votes to layoff 35 firefighters
Reno to lay off 35 firefighters, brown out 3rd station
Mich. firefighters facing layoffs as grant runs out
On-scene roadside safety is everyone’s job
Fire chief: Rescue truck hit by car shuts down interstate
Traffic Incident Management Systems
