ABOUT THE CLASS

Ask any firefighter about their culture and you will get different answers. Culture varies from crew to crew, station to station and department to department. That offers the question of “what is a good culture?”, or “how do I know my culture is good or bad?” Having a new and younger generation of firefighters in today's fire service, more people struggle with these questions and defining their own identity on a crew. Fire houses are becoming bogged down with negativity, complacency, mediocrity and resentment. Younger members of our departments lack an understanding, respect or appreciation for the long engrained traditions of the fire service. It’s a slippery slope to slide down; and like anything else in this world, it takes a fraction of the time to destroy a good culture as it did to create it in the first place.  

This training is meant to re-ignite that which is being lost.  We cover firehouse life, the model roles of each individual from the company officer to the rookie firefighter, the influence of the informal leader and "senior man", dealing with newer and younger firefighters, and specific things that will bring positivity or negativity to your culture if you let them into your firehouse.