The CRR Conversation Nobody Has With New Firefighters
Original Post This article is not for new firefighters. It is for the people those firefighters will look up to, learn from, and take their cues from in the first years of their career. The senior firefighters who show new hires how things are actually done. The company officers who set daily expectations. The battalion chiefs who shape performance culture. The chiefs who design promotional processes and set organizational priorities. The training officers who run department academies. If you are one of those people, this article is for you. Because there is a conversation about Community Risk Reduction that new firefighters are almost never having as part of CRR new firefighter training — and the reason they are not having it is not that nobody wrote it in an article. It is that the people whose voices actually matter in their lives have not yet made it a consistent part of how they lead. An article from a retired battalion chief they have never met can inform. It can challenge....
