Firefighter Podcast
The Firefighters Podcast is an award winning global podcast developing, inspiring, connecting, motivating & celebrating the world of our emergency services operators through a series of wide-ranging conversations with those within our emergency services family.
Hosted by serving operational UK firefighter & Instructor Pete Wakefield who speaks with individuals from all walks of life who share a connection with, can add value to, or can develop those within the fire sector.
Our driving purpose is to create a legacy resource for the current and future generations of firefighters & first responders
Podcasting since 2020 • 415 episodes
Firefighter Podcast
Latest Episodes
#428 Closing the Gap Between Fire Science and the Fireground with Matt Davis
This episode goes deep into the reality of fire behaviour as it actually shows up on the fireground, not the simplified version many of us were taught early on. Matt and I talk about how modern fuels, building design and ventilation have change...
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Season 6
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Episode 428
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2:05:15
#427 The Duty to Remember with Alan House of the Firefighters Memorial Trust
This conversation with Alan House pulls us back to the foundations of who we are as firefighters. Alan started his career in the 1960s, rose through Hampshire Fire and Rescue, and has spent decades preserving the story of our service. As part o...
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Season 6
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Episode 427
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1:59:49
#426 Collaboration Over Tradition: Dave Berry and the Rise of Tactical Firefighting UK
Inside the Lancashire Tactical Firefighting Summit: A Four-Part Series on Modern Firefighting.The final episode brings the series home with Greater Manchester’s Tactical Firefighting Training Lead Dave Berry. Dave is one of the founding ...
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Season 6
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Episode 426
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50:12
#425 Droplets, Energy and the Future of Container Training with Lucas Garden
Inside the Lancashire Tactical Firefighting Summit: A Four-Part Series on Modern Firefighting.In episode three, Fire and Rescue New South Wales instructor Lucas Garden takes us deep into the evolution of modern fire behaviour training. H...
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Season 6
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Episode 425
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52:10
#424 From the Service Strategy all the way to the Branch: Unified Fireground Thinking with Gerard Mann
Inside the Lancashire Tactical Firefighting Summit: A Four-Part Series on Modern Firefighting.In episode two, Station Officer Gerard Mann of Fire Rescue Victoria builds on Dan’s analysis by shifting the focus to how a fire service thinks...
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Season 6
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Episode 424
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1:11:26