Content Warning: Self-Harm, Mental Health Issues On New Year’s Eve I came dangerously close to attempting suicide. The root causes are a history of alcoholism, depression, mood disorder, and suicide ideation. The acute triggers were alcohol, financial stress, anxiety, and shame. Near Miss -Part One Near Miss – Part Two Near Miss – Part Three…
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Editor’s Note: This article appeared back in the day and Gary has made updates to it. His note about the changes appears at the end. By: Gary Lane We have been exploring some different view points the last few weeks with Brian Brush’s articles and videos on search. While some may feel that this is…
Near Miss – Part 3
Content Warning: Self-Harm, Mental Health Issues On New Year’s Eve I came dangerously close to attempting suicide. The root causes are a history of alcoholism, depression, mood disorder, and suicide ideation. The acute triggers were alcohol, financial stress, anxiety, and shame. Near Miss -Part One Near Miss – Part Two National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255…
Near Miss – Part 2
Content Warning: Self-Harm, Mental Health Issues On New Year’s Eve I came dangerously close to attempting suicide. The root causes are a history of alcoholism, depression, mood disorder, and suicide ideation. The acute triggers were alcohol, financial stress, anxiety, and shame. Author’s Note: This is Part 2 in a series of essays. Part 1 can…
Near Miss – Part 1
Content Warning: Self-Harm, Mental Health Issues On New Year’s Eve I came dangerously close to attempting suicide. The root causes are a history of alcoholism, depression, mood disorder, and suicide ideation. The acute triggers were alcohol, financial stress, anxiety, and shame. What follows is Part One of my story – what happened that day. Part…
Fireground Flowthrough
The Order of Operations ©2012 Christopher Brennan Fireground Flowthough as a concept is simply a particular way of examining the often-discussed “Coordinated Fire Attack.” The efforts of attack, ventilation, and search crews must be coordinated to bring the fire under control and maximize the ability of firefighters to save lives and property; this idea…
The Keyboard Warrior
By: Chris Brennan I spent a few days last week at the 2019 Firemanship Conference in Portland. It was the first Fire Service conference I’ve been to in over four years. It was invigorating to be around so many folks who give a damn. It was overwhelming to have so many folks come up to…
The Garage Gym
The Garage Gym By: Travis Rask A good CrossFit/Strength and Conditioning gym is worth its weight in gold. Well-run gyms provide the right mixture of community, coaching, programming and equipment. Unfortunately, many CrossFit gyms are expensive, some charge around two hundred dollars per month for unlimited participation. While some gyms provide service discounts, the…
Happy New Year
The Fire Service Warrior and Adult Academy team would like to wish all of you a safe and happy New Year. 2018 has been amazing. It has seen a rebirth of FireServiceWarrior.com because of YOU. The donations you made allowed us to repurchase the domain name. The books and shirts you have bought have allowed…
Connecting Relevance
By: Gary Lane We don’t have those. We don’t do that. That’ll never work or happen here. How many times have we heard, or sometimes even spoken, those words? It happens all the time in departments across the country. Guys see or hear about a department, big or small, that does something at a fire…