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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.
Episodes
9 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...
Health & Wellness in Fire & Emergency Services
The fire service is full of people who will sprint toward danger without hesitation, but we rarely talk about what the job quietly takes from us over 20 or 30 years. Host Kevin Ferrara dives into the culture of wellness in fire and rescue, and ...
Firefighter Survival Starts With Us
Firefighters don’t usually lose the job in one dramatic moment. More often, we lose years of health one “small” choice at a time: skipping SCBA during overhaul, riding back covered in soot, storing dirty turnout gear in a personal truck, or tre...
Comedy As A Fireground Coping Tool
Stress is part of the job, but suffering in silence shouldn’t be. We sit down with Jason Patton from Fire Department Chronicles and Brent “Firefighter Fenton” Fenton from Fire Department Coffee to talk about why firefighter humor is more than e...
PFAS In Turnout Gear
Turnout gear is supposed to be the last line of defense, so what happens when the fabric itself contains PFAS forever chemicals that were never clearly disclosed? This week, we pulled a crucial interview from our archives with Dr. Graham Peasle...
