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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 333 episodes
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Smart Firefighting Podcast covers real-world deployments of smart technologies through conversations with technologists, innovators, companies, and forward-thinking public safety and government agencies. Learn from interviews with leaders as they share their insights and offer their expertise every week! Host Kevin Sofen is a co-founding member of the Smart First Responder Community who loves to explore change management and technology in public safety.
Unknown Host hosts Smart Firefighting, a education show with 333 episodes published.
Wildland fires are bigger and faster than they were 20 years ago. Much of the gear on the line has not kept up. A broken shovel. A pack that does not fit. Standard issue equipment that looks 50 years old because it basic
The fire service has spent years turning hazmat into either a horror movie or a checklist. Jake Ryks thinks both are wrong. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovation
Society wants an Olympic athlete neurosurgeon on every call. That superhero may have already saved the day ten times this week, at two in the morning, on no sleep. Nobody sees the beating on the inside. Hello Smart Firef
The biggest constraint most fire departments face is not money. It is being shorthanded. Over 90% of a typical fire budget goes to personnel, which leaves almost nothing for the next great tool and no spare bandwidth to
Most first responder vehicles are full of technology that does not talk to itself. A dash cam here. A radio there. An MDT, a license plate reader, lights and sirens, all from different makers, all siloed. The data exists
Bailey Farren is the co-founder and CEO of Perimeter . In 2017 she was evacuated from the Tubbs Fire, and what she saw that night, people with no way to know where the danger was or where to go, became the problem she ha
Bobby Banome is an FDNY firefighter from Staten Island who got tired of arriving at fires without the information his crew needed. So he built something. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of
The secondary market for fire apparatus runs on Facebook groups, newspaper classifieds, and local auctions. A small town in Texas budgeted $100,000 for a used truck sale. Garage got them $1.3 million. That is what happen
Firefighters train all year, but most of it is death by PowerPoint. Evan Sitler-Bates and Drew MacNeil, co-founders of XpertVR, are building a different answer: immersive virtual reality simulations where firefighters ac
What does leadership really look like when lives are on the line? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry
It’s okay to not be okay. The question is, who notices? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts t
What happens when fire protection standards do not apply? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts
What does risk really mean when the stakes are rising for entire communities? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technol
How do you prepare firefighters for risks that did not exist 10 years ago? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology
What starts as a routine task on the fireground can quickly turn into a life threatening moment. For Matt Simmonds, that moment came while rolling hose after a fire, when a passing vehicle nearly struck his crew. That cl
What happens when a community faces the reality that staying in place is no longer safe? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service
What happens when the people who design buildings and the firefighters who respond to emergencies inside them stop talking to each other? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real wo
Aviation is one of the safest forms of transportation in the world, but that safety depends on careful preparation for events everyone hopes will never happen. Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episo
What if every fire agency could detect a wildfire within minutes of ignition and track it in near real time? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interview
Why do cooking fires keep happening even when people know better? Hello Smart Firefighting Community! Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry
Mark Reilly
The Washington Tattoo
1 appearance on this show
Gavin Smith
Head of Pricing & Execution · West Coast Environmental Law
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Richard Mills
NYC Sex Therapist · Talk Sex With Dick
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell
principal fire safety strategist for UL Research Institutes' Fire Safety Research Institute · U.S. Fire Administration
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell
principal fire safety strategist for UL Research Institutes' Fire Safety Research Institute · U.S. Fire Administration
1 appearance on this show
Scott Reimann
Vallfirest
1 appearance on this show
Jake Ryks
St. Paul Fire Department
1 appearance on this show
Evan Sitler-Bates
XpertVR
1 appearance on this show
Max Cottingham
Fire and Rescue New South Wales
1 appearance on this show
Emma Whale
New South Wales Reconstruction Authority
1 appearance on this show
Fiona Perrin
Zurich Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Greg Pobar
Regional Airport
1 appearance on this show
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