Tag Archives: Blowin’ Smoke

  The latest edition of Blowin’ Smoke features a good friend, Jerry Meddock. I first met Lt. Meddock and his wife at an event hosted by FirefighterWife.com in the hills of West Virginia. I was able to spend quite a ...

Chief Peter Lamb is a 35 year veteran of the fire service and has led three suburban fire departments (Harris Fire District, Coventry RI, Tiverton Fire Department, Tiverton, RI, and recently left the North Attleboro Fire department in Massachusetts.) In addition, he has served ...

Dave Cline is Deputy Chief of the Smithville Area Fire Protection District in Smithville, Missouri. Smithville is a suburb on the north side of Kansas City, Missouri. As a fire protection district, SAFPD covers 112 square miles including the City ...

This Blowin' Smoke article features Chief D.L. Rubin, Fire Chief for the City of De Pere, Wisconsin. Rubin was appointed by the City’s Police & Fire Commission in December of 2014. De Pere has a population of 25,000 residents. The city is located in the Northeast section of the state. The department serves the citizens and visitors from two fire-rescue station locations.

Blowin’ Smoke is a recurring post on The “Model City” Firefighter that features an interview with different members of emergency services across the country. The intentions of the article is to share a small snapshot into the views and career ...

You can’t train enough for a job that can kill you! Oftentimes I have program attendees with 40, 45, even 50 years of service coming to my classes to learn. This inspires me and I always call them out and thank them for giving the class one of the greatest take-away lessons of the day. No matter how many years of service you have, there is still much to be learned.

This Blowin’ Smoke article features Deputy Chief Anthony Avillo of the North Hudson (NJ) Regional Fire and Rescue. His department covers five cities in North Jersey directly across from Manhattan NYC. Three of the five cities in NHRFR are in ...

Blowin’ Smoke is a recurring post on The “Model City” Firefighter that features an interview with different members of emergency services across the country. The intentions of the article is to share a small snapshot into the views and career ...

  My name is Don Catenacci, and I retired from the Wauwatosa Wisconsin Fire Department last July as a Firefighter/EMT after 15 years. Prior to that I served for 7 years as a civilian Crash Fire Rescue Firefighter for the ...

This edition of Blowin’ Smoke features a veteran member of the fire service from a department just a few hours away. Chief Ty Dickerson is the Chief of the City of Lexington Fire Department in Lexington, Virginia. I reached out ...