The Weekly Scrap, Firefighter Podcast

Joined by Jesse Quinalty, the man behind Red Helmet Fire Training, SlabSavers, The Firefighter Book Club, and Firefighters riding in firetrucks eating Ice Cream! This guy absolutely stays plugged in …

Joined by the exceptional Chief Richard Kelley to talk about his journey through the ranks and lessons learned along the way. We discussed his philosophy on leading up, culture, training, overcoming …

Joined on this episode by none other than the one and only Paul Combs. The de-facto cartoonist of the fire service!  We discussed motivation, inspiration, leadership and how to make an impact in your…

Joined on this episode by Jaime Reyes, who is passionate about improving the job! We are going to talk about fireground communications, how they can be improved, common problems and obstacles, from t…

Joined on this episode by one of my favorite people on the planet, Nick Ledin! We talked about Firefighter Rescue Survey and the data that it is providing, Search... mission, metrics and mindset... p…

Joined by Chief Ben Hoeppner to talk all about setting our young people up for success in their fire service careers. We will talk about handlines, firefighter challenges, and the progression of fire…

Ray is coming on to talk about live fire training and the challenges the modern fire service is facing!!!
On April 9th, 2022 Ray McCormack posted "The Fire service needs to bring live fire training up…

Joined on this episode by Mickey Farrell, We talk about the importance of turning mindset into skillset, gaining position on the fire, understanding and developing flowstate, and that does not even i…

The audience was amazing and the live Scrap was outstanding! Good questions were submitted and there was not a single inflated ego on the panel.  Just solid firefighters sharing their passion. Dennis…

The second Mega Scrap is amazing! Rob Ramirez, Bassel Ibrahim and Jim McCormack absolutely crushed the topic of MAYDAY and RIT. It was an unbelievable conversation as they deep dove into everything R…

Joined on this episode by Chief David Rhodes, the Smoke Daddy himself. We discuss too many topics to list them all, but including...  Smoke Divers, Decision Making, Training Under Stress, Experientia…

Joined on this episode by Rob Fisher, and it was an awesome conversation. Trying to make this one happen for quite a while, and the stars finally aligned. We talked motivation. leadership, culture, t…

Joined on this episode by Mike Gagliano, one of my favorite people in the fire service. We discussed his philosophy on developing a great firehouse, house pride, trust, teamwork... then switched gear…

Awesome conversation with Steve Stawecki. Was able to pick his brain on on training, fighting back from injury mentally and physically... the challenges of being a training officer, especially in the…

Joined by Nick Esposito of Truck Tactics Training on this 128th episode of the Scrap! Topics included taking the training past the 'what' and 'how', results oriented performance, NIOSH reports, learn…

Joined on this episode by Chad Daily of the Kansas City Missouri FD. Was an amazing discussion around his passion for instruction, as well as all the lessons he has learned over the last three decade…

Joined on this episode by OJ Kolodziej and excited to talk about truck duties, ladder tactics especially when it comes to being unconventional. He tells the story of the journey to bring the scaling …

Joined by Bobby Eckert of Eckert Fire Tactics. Looks to be an awesome evening with some great topics. We discuss realistic fire training, wearing go pros, tradition, FF hate and even some building co…

Closed out January 2022 in style with none other than Clyde Gordon! Was an awesome time deep diving into leadership, responsibility, ownership, systemic failures, and whatever rabbit holes Clyde want…

Joined this week by Timothy Gleason from down in the South of Florida. We talk about rescue topics and tactics as well as the price of the job. Timmy takes the time to share his personal journey into…