Firepalooza

🚨 This Week at http://BShifter.com 🚨
In this week's article, Nick Brunacini challenges two expensive assumptions that continue to exist in the fire service:

▪️ That fire academy training adequately prepares officers to command high-risk incidents

▪️ That advanced incident command training and certification are simply too expensive

Command is a learned skill. Like any critical fireground function, it requires training, practice, evaluation, and certification.

Read this week's article to learn why command training is one of the most important investments a department can make in firefighter safety, organizational performance, and risk management—and why the price of skipping it is often far greater.

👉 Click here to read the full article: https://bshifter.com/fds-pay-a-high-price-for-opting-out-of-command-training/

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