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Firefighters Podcast

The Firefighters Podcast is a global podcast seeking to develop, inspire, connect, motivate, represent & celebrate the world of our emergency services operators through a series of wide-ranging conversations celebrating those within our emergency services family and encouraging the support of this incredible group of people.Operational UK firefighter Pete Wakefield speaks with individuals from all walks of life who share a connection with, can add value to, or can develop those who choose this

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#299 The Poet Firefighter with Gerard Devine

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2024/05/06

Gerard Devine is an award-winning Irish poet who lives a life less ordinary.The former carpenter is a full-time firefighter in Dublin City.Prior to joining the fire brigade, Gerard spent many years working on the building sites of Dublin, Boston and San Francisco. He still plies his building skills by volunteering to work in third-world countries such as Africa. An animal and nature lover Gerard recently moved up into the inspiring Wicklow mountains where he lives in harmony with nature with wife

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The Secret to Functional First Responder Fitness with...

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2024/05/01

Fire station gyms are typically small and with limited kit and space you want to maximise your time, resource, budget & equipment choice, this is where TRX come in. The smartest gym is the one you already own — your body. TRX powers it by making everything else around it as challenging as you need it. Things like balance, power, stability, functionality & time under tension — everything a first responder needs to do get strong, get fast, move better than ever before not just ow but for your

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#298 Becoming a Firefighter Challenge Gold Medallist...

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2024/04/29

Helena Brown is a UK Firefighter who in 2023 burst on the scene of the firefighter challenge community winning the British firefighter challenge. She then joined in in Saudi Arabia winning more medals at the toughest firefighter alive in 2024. She will be returning to the Firefighter challenge circuit this year and today she shares her experience of joining the fire service and growing herself confidence and self belief whist putting herself around other high performers to help her grow and develop

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#297 Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest...

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2024/04/22

Liz McConaghy was the longest serving female crewman on the Royal Air Force Chinook Fleet spanning a 17 year career flying on the aircraft. Originally from a small town in Northern Ireland she attended RAF Cranwell on her 19th birthday to begin her exciting career thereafter on Chinook Helicopters. She was the youngest aircrew to deploy to Iraq aged just 21 and also the only female crewman on the Chinook wing for 4 years, so her story is completely unique. Her career saw her amass 2 deployments

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#296 Are all Firefighters Bullies - A Conversation on...

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2024/04/15

Are all Firefighters Bullies. If you were to read the papers each week you may well hold this view but like so many things in life its a very small number that can build a bad stereotype of a group of individuals that I feel very proud to be part of.However there is no smoke without fire so clearly some people are not having a very positive experience in the fire & rescue service and today we want to develop an understanding of how we can better understand the world of Bullying & Harassment

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#295 How a routine Firefighter Health screening...

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2024/04/11

Carla Morrison is a serving firefighter from Canada who during a routine Health screening discovered she has dramatically reduced hearing on one side. This discovery lead to further testing which showed a large brain tumour which threatened her career, her home life and possibly her life.Also on the podcast today is Bradley Dicks also from Canada & Kyle Keighery a serving firefighter from AustraliaWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast

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#294 The Firefighting Gladiator with Bronte Jones

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2024/04/08

Bronte Jones is a UK firefighter, weightlifter & contender on UK's GLADIATORS where she made it the finals. Gladiators is a sports entertainment TV show & one of the most defining game shows of the 90's in the UK, as well as across the globe. Athletic members of the public battle as Contenders against the shows very own mighty Gladiators to earn points in an array of events that tests their speed, strength, stamina and skill. You can find Bronte on social media HERE We only feature

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#293 Why a Lack of Sleep is Killing our First...

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2024/04/01

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in 21st century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.Based on the Journal of Global Health, first responders are as much as three times more likely to suffer from insomnia than non-shift workers & a Recent UClan document stating 61% of

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#292 Eduardo Martins & Brazilian Fire Service at...

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2024/03/29

My Guest today is Eduardo Martins from the Brazilian Fire Service. In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries where we caught up with Eduardo & Others.connect with Martins HEREWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY with

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#291 Jared Johnson 9 x Firefighter Challenge World...

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2024/03/27

My Guest today is Jared Johnson 9 x Firefighter Challenge World Champion. In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries where we caught up with Jared & Others.You can find more advice and coaching from Jared HEREWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to

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#290 Science Backed Data driven firefighting with...

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2024/03/25

Dan Stephens Is a highly experienced and operationally competent Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive Officer. Currently serving as Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor and Inspector to Welsh Government Prior to which he was Chief Officer/Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade having previously served for 7 years as the Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service. Dan led Merseyside through 7 years of the most significant challenges in the history of the organisation

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#289 Team UK & British Firefighter Challenge...

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2024/03/17

In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries.Today we are speaking with Team UK & British Firefighter Challenge organisers John Gregory & Mickey Joseph.you can find info on UK firefighter challenge event below:The British Firefighter ChallengeThe Cheshire Fire ChallengeThe Welsh Firefighter

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#288 Team Canada Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI...

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2024/03/15

In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries.Today we are speaking with Team Canada's Carla Morrison, Bradley Dicks, Brad Shearing & David Murray.We only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY with every episode ever made &

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#287 Team USA Toughest Firefighter Alive SAUDI ARAMCO...

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2024/03/13

In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries.Today we are speaking with Team USA's Ana Ruzevic & Sarah McGill & Andrew Cook.Ana & Sarah took silver and Gold in the overall Female category.We only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our

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#286 THE SHIFT WORKERS BLUEPRINT - How to become a...

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2024/03/11

Your job takes priority most of the time, which often puts you bottom of the list. Well, that’s in the past. It’s time to start serving number one – YOU. Because, ultimately you need to be at your best all year round, you’re needed to serve and protect. You can only get so far on your own – stop trying to wing it.Grace Cowan AKA The Shift Workers’ Coach has been where you are right now serving as a police officer she was passionate about the job but completely lost on how to get her fitness where

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#285 Iron Man, Edge Detection & The Future of...

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2024/03/04

Captain (Ret) Kirk McKinzie, now President at MCKINZIE SMART TECHNOLOGIES LLC is a Strategic Next Gen and SMART Partnership subject matter expert. Connecting, cooperating, and delivering to regional, national, and global leaders in 360/3D/ SMART cyber-physical systems for saving lives and leveraging his 30 years of hands-on and practical emergency responder and rescue experience handling over 10,000 emergencies.Some links from todays episode:JUMP AERO - First responders taking to the skyC-THRU

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#284 FDIC & Tall Buildings Fire Safety Conference...

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2024/02/26

World’s Leading Thinkers on High-Rise Fire Safety Coming to FDIC International 2024 - The 8th International Tall Building/High Rise Conference will make its US debut April 15-18, 2024 alongside FDIC International in Indianapolis, Indiana. The event, recognized by the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE), will bring delegates together with speakers from around the world for three days to provide valuable insights into current best practices, tall building fire safety innovation, and relevant

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#283 The World Firefighter Games with John Hartley

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2024/02/21

The World Firefighter Games is an international sporting event that welcomes all full-time, part-time and volunteer firefighters and their immediate direct family from all across the globe.The games are held biennially in different countries and offer more than 50 different sports and challenges including archery, rugby sevens, windsurfing, poker, swimming, athletics and softball, with the "Toughest FireFighter Alive" being the blue riband event.John Hartley is Executive Director at World

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Waldbaum’s supermarket fire Debrief: The historic...

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2024/02/19

On Aug. 2, 1978, a fire at a Brooklyn Waldbaum’s supermarket claimed the lives of six firefighters. Twelve firefighters who were working on the roof plunged into the seat of the fire when the roof suddenly collapsed 32 minutes after the first company arrived. Six of the firefighters fell to the floor and were seriously injured. The other six were hung up in the truss area between trusses 4 and 6, and ultimately died from severe burn injuries.Lt. James E. Cutillo, Battalion 33 (working in Ladder

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#282 Firefighter Cancer, Decontamination &...

Firefighters Podcast ·

2024/02/12

Episode today from the Firefighter Decontamination & Particulate Protections Seminar 2024 where we spoke with many services attending and many subject matter experts in this space from across the worldThis seminar attended by the podcast in January of 2024 focused on the current epidemic of cancer among firefighters. It is with a sense of urgency that we shed light on this pressing issue and explore avenues for effective solutions. The epidemic of cancer among firefighters is a stark reality

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