For any City Council to naively suggest that personnel reductions and other resource denials won’t adversely affect public safety just because “they say so” is ridiculous and in fact, dangerous.

The way in which you deal with the pain of change might involve the amount of pain, your tolerance to pain, and how much the pain affects those around you.

In emergency services, too many problems are treated alike: we are in the business of responding to disasters. Usually, though, those disasters are not OUR disasters.

I did not know him and his story I heard only in passing yesterday morning as I reported to work.

Being a leader is very much like being a responsible parent, or rather, it is EXACTLY like being a responsible parent.

My wife and I got back Thursday from a whirlwind tour of Northern Italy which included stops in Milan, Florence, Venice, and Trieste.

When people act with integrity, it is often because their leaders have demonstrated their own insistence on acting with integrity. When leaders don’t demonstrate these values, the troops say, “Who cares?”

I can teach you to be a better firefighter. I can teach you to be a better medic. I can’t teach you to have a better attitude.

A good leadership model starts with eliminating the “blame” culture, instead, creating a culture where errors and mistakes are used constructively to create learning.

Situational irony occurs when the actions someone takes have an effect exactly the opposite of what was intended.