Firefighter Podcast
Bringing together voices from across the global fire and emergency services community to share experience, challenge thinking and help firefighters grow.
Hosted by serving UK firefighter and instructor Pete Wakefield, this award-winning podcast explores operational practice, leadership, research and personal development through honest, wide-ranging conversations.
Real experience. Useful lessons. A lasting resource for today’s firefighters and the generations that follow.
Firefighter Podcast
Latest Episodes
#519 HELP IS ALREADY NEARBY: GOODSAM | One Link | Live Video | Before the blue lights arrive - Mark Wilson
What happens between someone calling 999 and the emergency services arriving and how much more could we do in that time?Professor Mark Wilson OBE, consultant neurosur...
#518 DEBRIEF: Six Firefighters Trapped | Mendocino Complex 2018
Six firefighters. A rapidly advancing wildfire. And an escape route that suddenly disappeared.On 19 August 2018, firefighters working on California's Mendocino Complex were conducting a tactical firing operation designed to stop t...
#517 Are We Making Firefighters Safer or Less Capable? | Chris Gott & Justin Brunner
Are We Training Firefighters Wrong? | Chris Gott & Justin BrunnerAre we genuinely developing better firefighters, or are we simply getting better at ticking boxes, completing assessments and documenting competence?In th...
#516 Culture on Fire: We Know the Problem - So Why Is Change So Hard
Why does meaningful change remain so difficult when decades of research, inspections and cultural reviews have already identified so many of the problems? In this episode, Im joined by Janette Morris, former senior fire and rescue leader...
#515 Beyond National Best Practice: Why Firefighting Needs Global Thinking with Dr Lori Moore-Merrell & Phil Garrigan
Recorded at the World Fire Congress 2026 in London, I sat down with Dr Lori Moore-Merrell, former US Fire Administrator and founding Chair of the World Fire Congress, and Phil Garrigan, Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Cou...
