Back to the Basics: One Department's Approach to Training
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Back to the Basics: One Department's Approach to Training

B1IntermediateSeptember 12, 20261 hr 7 min
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Welcome to Fire Ground Strategies and other stuff from the street, the September 2026 edition. This is insane, already up to September. And unfortunately, we're coming up on September 11th, actually, when this show airs, it'll be September 12th. So yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the United States.

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And that day was pretty awful, as we all know. We've all lived through it. And we keep telling people to never forget. And one of the things that I've learned, because I'm actually speaking at town halls, have

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spoken yesterday at town hall. And what I found, we keep asking people to remember 9-11. There's so many people who weren't born, weren't involved in the fire service. People who are less than 30 years old have nothing to remember.

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