Add in social media, a culture of decision-shaming and institutional decision-making shaped by fear, and you begin to see how firefighting is being silently reshaped—not by what is happening, but by what is seen happening.
Category Archives: Education
You Can’t Code Culture Into DNA
DNA is the biological blueprint for an individual’s physical and behavioral traits, but it does not encode specific cultural practices.
2024 Report: Interior Deaths
The number of interior line of duty deaths in 2024 is the second-lowest number on record. The lowest is one in 2017.
Don’t Feel Bad for Loving the Job
Criticizing firefighters for reminiscing about the “old days,” based on the assumption that younger firefighters will abandon reason and education to emulate their predecessors, is insulting to senior firefighters, younger firefighters and department leadership.
Data Not Drama 