You can speculate, you can imagine, you can insinuate, and you can opinionate, but the long and short of it is that YOU DON’T KNOW.

If you aren’t preaching the Gospel daily, the audience doesn’t hear the message when everyone is shouting and it’s too loud to hear.

If the public percieves that your service doesn’t have value, they will cut it back to where they feel it deserves to be funded, plain and simple.

The results of technology can produce wonderful results, and conversely, be misapplied and create major disaster.

The people who have worked with me for years know I want my door to be open, but it’s really just to give the impression that it’s open. It’s not.

While leaders must have the ability to exercise statesmanship, these soft skills are sometimes not fully appreciated unless you can bring some smackdown to the table.

The truly powerful are so because they have empowered others.

I’ve been really busy getting the home ready for the holidays. In the meanwhile, though, here’s an update on where and when I’ll be in your part of the world.

If this doesn’t illustrate the live-saving capability of residential sprinklers, I don’t know what else to tell you. You can dry things off after they get wet. You can’t unburn your family or your home.

One of the biggest problems the fire service has is its credibility. I received multiple e-mails over the past few weeks about a confined space training near-miss that in reading the information, I found to be pretty troubling.

Through careful evaluation of skill sets, good coaches point their personnel toward positions in which they will have the greatest impact.

“If it hadn’t been for this storm, I never would have known so many people loved me. If it weren’t for this storm, I wouldn’t have met so many wonderful and giving people. What I lost, God has given back to me in love and friendship.”

If you are going to implement change in your organizational culture, there should be a reluctance to be where you were and a desire to go where you are going.

Emergency service delivery is a very specialized business in your unique community. There aren’t too many tenders wandering the streets of Manhattan, and conversely, there aren’t many six-man truck companies in rural Arkansas. Saying one method of delivery is better than the other is ridiculous; they don’t compare.