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AFSO21's Weekend Wrap-up Podcast
Top-rated fire and emergency services podcast! Host Kevin Ferrara delivers expert insights on leadership and tactics from the academy to command post.
AFSO21's Weekend Wrap-up Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Shifting Ground
This episode of the AFSO21's Weekend Wrap-up Podcast provides a deep dive into the "Great Transformation" of emergency services, Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement, addressing the fundamental shifts defining leadership in 2026 and beyond.&...
Beyond the Stats: A Decade of Research into the Fire Service’s Biggest Killer
The podcast episode details the generational crisis of occupational cancer among firefighters and the cultural shift required to address it.The key points include:Cultural Shift: The traditional image of the "salty" ve...
Is Your Station Staffed by Science or Just Habit?
NFPA 1750 is here, and it's an earthquake for the fire service. Are you prepared for the radical transparency it demands, or are you still relying on "tribal knowledge" that’s about to put your department on the wrong side of a legal liability ...
The EMS Officer 1
Fire calls may have built the modern fire service, but EMS calls now define it and that demands a different kind of leader. We walk through why the EMS Officer 1 is not a “nice to have” title, but a practical response to how fire based EMS real...
EMS Is Community Medicine
Calling EMS “ambulance drivers” sounds small, but it exposes a huge gap in how the public and even parts of healthcare understand prehospital medicine. We sit down with Pennsylvania Paramedic Justin Whitney during National EMS Week to get speci...
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