FAAT by the Fire - Unfiltered!
Emergency Management & Emergency Services through the eyes of first responders... Real conversations about the issues and challenges from a realistic approach... no punches pulled!
In Honor of Those Who Have Gone Before...
In honor of Memorial Day, and those who have give the ultimate sacrifice, we look at the importance of realizing the stress that comes hand in hand with working, or loving someone that works, in emergency services. Understanding the stresses of the job, both mental and physical, and the effects that they have on both responder health and safety, as well as their relationships with families and loved ones is a part of the job that not enough of us are talking about.
Come listen as we set the stage for discussions over the next several episodes o...
Episode 6 - Meet Ava and Cora!
Continuing the Episode 5 discussion on technological advances, and more specifically A.I., we are talking with Wes Jones of Aurelian and the products that they have developed to support the work of PSAP's and dispatch centers.
Aurelian has developed technology solutions that help support telecommunicators and assist with information gathering. Aurelian's solution integrate within current workflows to seamlessly support operations and staff.
Wes is a public safety professional with over 30 years of experience spanning emergency communications, emergency management and public-private collaboration. He spent more than 25 years in New York State in 9-1-1...
Episode 5 - The Challenges of AI and Social Media
A.I.
Good or bad?
As technology and AI begins to creep into all segments of everyday activities, have you welcomed it? Or do you avoid it the best that you can?
In Part 1 of this two part episode, we look at how AI and technology effects what we do as emergency responders and some of the challenges that we have encountered.
We are joined by Wes Jones, a long time emergency manager and 911 Center Director, who is now with a new company that is embracing some of this technology. Episode 2 will...
Episode 3 Let's Involve Everbody - It's Whole Community!
Whole Community -
What is it and why does it matter?
Understanding our audience, or customers is vital in being sable to provide a service to them. Whether that service is community safety and protection, EMS, or LE, we need to know our base and how best to communicate with them. This could mean anything from understanding that we need to communicate differently with different groups (Gen X/Y vs. our parents) through different methods, to knowing our communities that we serve and how they may view events differently.
With the advent of insta...
Episode 2 What's Emergency Management All About? Consequence Management!
So many of the groups and institutions that we have worked with feel like they are ready for any event that they may experience - they have trained, written plans, run exercises, and trained some more.
But the one area that we see as lacking time and again is planning for consequence management. The plans that many have written tend to be tactical in nature. The 'full scale active shooter' exercise tends to be a LE based functional that works on clearing schools and Fire/EMS responding to casualties - but most educational plans are missing the con...
