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All-Hazards Training Service based in Southwestern New Hampshire.

06/02/2026

The Practical Mayday Rescue Operations class would not have been able to be taught to it’s entirety without the help of Matt Peard and Monadnock Disposal Service, Inc. and the generous donation of their 40 yard dumpster to serve as the foundation of the firefighter through the floor prop.

05/31/2026

Day 2 at The Drill Yard instructing Mayday Rescue Operations at the Monadnock Fire Conference involved a lot of physical work, Drags, Carries, window removals, and through the floor evolutions. The members were engaged and worked as a team. It is always a pleasure to work with great students and good friends.

05/30/2026

Great day 1 of practical mayday rescue operations at The Drill Yard participating Monadnock Fire Conference. Thank you Michael Goldstein and Nick Skrocki for providing instruction to engaged attendees.

05/28/2026

One of the harder things in leadership is realizing that people and organizations you respect can still miss the standard. When people or institutions with wide reaching influence train their guns at smaller groups over the truly inconsequential; That’s disappointing….because I believe influence carries responsibility.

If we’re serious about “not eating our own,” then we can’t selectively apply it. We can’t preach mental health wellness and use a platform to ostracize our contemporaries and supporters. Real accountability is measured and fair. It’s not a dogpile powered by reach and momentum

We can still respect the institutions and people, but we cannot pretend that misuse of influence is what good looks like.

05/24/2026

Your company, your shift, a group of like-minded brothers; your “wolfpack.” A wolf is competent, confident, and effective on its own. A coordinated pack, however, becomes a force multiplier and changes the entire equation.

Now the hyena is different. Alone, it’s cautious, timid, and often deferential. Put it with its clan and it becomes loud, aggressive, and opportunistic with courage in numbers.

So what are you: a wolf or a hyena?

Do you speak up when you’re alone? Do you espouse the values of the collective even around strangers? Are you individually effective? Or do you sit quietly in the corner of a room full of strangers, hiding in the shadows; waiting until your people show up so you can suddenly find your voice? Do you lack value because your “clan” is strictly opportunistic? Are you timid because you’re individually weak?

Do the right thing. Be effective, not opportunistic. Carry yourself with grace and confidence; not timidness and a lack of backbone. When you’re with your group, be a force multiplier… not a bunch of yipping scavengers..

05/16/2026

Professional resilience is the ability to absorb hardship, without allowing it to compromise operational capacity, professionalism, or an obligation to the mission. Members who display this ability have not avoided suffering; they have learned to carry it without making it everyone else’s burden. When emotional pain is used as a social influence, and dumped without accountability, introspect, or effort toward growth it becomes destructive, and the trauma is no longer processed, it could be construed as weaponized. The pursuit of sympathy overshadows the pursuit of recovery. If this “trauma dumping” is not corralled the member can become entrenched in a victim centered mentality.

To remain operationally effective professional resilience should be matured through; vocational competence, controlled hardship, emotional regulation, anchoring oneself to a bigger meaning, and refusing learned helplessness. Resilience building is not something that will happen by dipping your toes in the water. Professional Resilience will never develop if a member constantly seeks validation; while avoiding hard conversations, discomfort, accountability and introspect. We operate in tough environments both operationally and organizationally, usually in conditions that were not on our bingo card. That is where we build our resilience.

This resilience is not a shield it is a capacity, and even the most stalwart members will reach a critical allostatic load if there is never relief. The members must find reduction measures in the form of recovery; sleep, fitness, faith, family, and seeking professional support if needed. Officers must monitor their members for negative changes in; Demeanor, (self) Discipline, Dependability, Disconnecting.

Building Resilience is the weight training, and reducing the allostatic load is ensuring off-days

05/10/2026

Leadership podcasts, books, and presentations are amazing resources and I would encourage any current or aspiring leader to take in as much information as possible about leading. This will require filtering, prioritizing, implementing that information, as well as discarding any nuggets that you disagree with or are of no use to your situation.

General James Mattis read and consulted a host of books in his preparation for the invasion of Iraq in 2003; the books covered campaigns from Alexander the Great, The Romans, Sherman’s march to Atlanta, Lawrence of Arabia, etc… His theory was that there was more experience and insight in those books than a career military man could gain in multiple lifetimes. We should take that same approach to leadership, anything else would be arrogance.

Arrogance in leadership is very dangerous. Until you as a leader place your members in a position where the cost is their life or livelihood, and stand back and watch them execute those orders. You will never understand the true burden of command. So every insight, absorbed sentence and presented notion that can build trust and knowledge is not something to scoff at or belittle.

05/09/2026

Happy to be invited to speak at this event. Hope to see success with this conference, and glad to be able to support Granite State initiatives

05/02/2026

When we’re tasked with giving members their job performance reviews, we shouldn’t look at it as checking off boxes or a necessary evil of our position. We need to embrace the assignment as an opportunity to grow them; both as an individual and as a member of the collective. We need to give honest feedback and not fear difficult conversations. Avoiding bias is critical: recency bias, the halo/horns effect, similarity bias, central tendency bias, the list is plentiful. You have the honor of evaluating them and providing input on how they can develop their future within the organization. Make sure your evaluations are honest and specific to the individual.

The development of Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timed goals (SMART) is essential. I’ve been guilty of ambiguity in goal assignment, and I’ve treated goals more like suggestions at times. Don’t do that. Check in throughout the evaluation period to assess progress, offer guidance, and provide suggestions. Goal setting is not a “set it and forget it” function.

If reviews are within your scope, take the time to dive deep and give true feedback, difficult or not. Invest yourself in your members. Grow them to be stronger and more prepared than you were.

04/30/2026

The City of Keene Fire Department is hosting a free training event:

Mastering Fire Ground Command Calm the Chaos presented by Trainfirefighters.com:

July 21-22
0800 - 1700
Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center
Keene State College - 90 Wyman Way, Keene NH

This 2-day (16 hour) nationally delivered workshop presented by is offered once again free of charge.

Interested members should register to: [email protected]
with Name(s) of attending and organization.

This is a do not miss for fire chiefs and officers with fireground command responsibilities, as well as aspiring officers looking to understand practical command implementation.

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