Fire Engineering

So it just, the ball started early, it started rolling downhill and, you know, really within months or, or less, I, I, I was very much into the job e-even as a brand new guy.

What kind of stuff were you reading at that point? Like, were you reading periodicals or fire engineering or what, what kind of stuff were you reading?

Well, I wasn't really reading, uh, the traditional, you know, the firehouse fire engineering.

At that point I was...

FDNY has WNYF magazine, all right, which comes out, I think, four times a year.

Okay.

Well, this is my latest book.

Fire Engineering has been very, very good to me over the years.

Mm-hmm.

Just some disagreements on a recent article that Fire Engineering published on, uh, on streams.

It doesn't bother me.

I don't know these people.

I get to put a fire out." And I always tell them, it's like, "That's not really the core.

The core reason you're excited is because you provided value to yourself, value to your team, and you had value in the time you put into the training," right? So like I think the same thing as an organization when I was, you know, as the president and I was leading it was if we can create opportunities for our members, if we can get them involved and engaged, and then, you know, cross-pollinate with other organizations that have a like mindset, um, the IFF, you know, uh, North American Fire Training Directors, uh, Fire Engineering, FDIC, how can we partner with them to give our members more opportunities? Well, then our members are gonna have more value.

They're gonna wanna be more engaged in the IFSI.

And so the last two years have been really working hard to increase those opportunities for our members-

Um, I used to always tell people, "Look up all his articles on Fire Nuggets.

Look up all his articles on Fire Engineering." Now all they have to do is get the book of Andy and it's all in one place, and, um, I have to thank Gary Lane for that.

Um, amazing that he's put that together in one place.

Huge resource for, uh, people that want to, uh, to get a great grounding in, in what we're talking about in hose nozzles, water flow, proper water application.

Um, again, the book of Andy's there, and also, you know, again, Dave McGrail.

Read Dra- Dave McGrail's standpipe book.

Uh, you know, hopefully there's a few people who read my article on fire engineering, but read stuff that the, you know, that the people were, that were in contact with Andy wrote.

And, uh, and now again, further on, um, sort of that cause-and-effect chain of communication, the next lay- the next step is, you know, sources like Kyle's book that just came out, The Ramagos Papers.

Throughout his career, Sean has traveled to deliver training focused on the fire ground realities, emphasizing victim-centered decision-making, search operations, firefighter performance, and developing a culture of professionalism.

He has contributed articles to many fire service publications, including Fire Engineering, Firehouse Magazine, The Book of Search, and Setting the Standard, Training for Success.

I'm excited to have him back once more.

Sean Duffy, welcome back for Scrap episode number 375.