September Sermon
Join your Lone Star Fools Sunday September 8th 10am at Easy Tiger 6406 N Interstate 35 Frontage rd Suite 1100. Our Very own Mike Heeney will be presenting his Class “Peace and Wartime”.
Peacetime and Wartime bridges firehouse management and fireground actions building a seamless mindset that supports individual development, strengthens company efficiency, advances organizational growth, and facilitates alarm mitigation. How we conduct ourselves and utilize our time when not responding is the greatest predicter of how we will perform when the tones drop. Unfortunately, peacetime structure is one of the most overlooked and misused company level assets. We must be purposeful in how we structure our day if we want to cultivate an internal cohesive social network, enhance company level trust, and strengthen functional competency. This can be challenging with the growing demands and expectations placed on us by administration and the public. The wartime component of this class will examine experience-based lessons from the fireground ensuring we are conducting meaningful size-ups, articulating worthwhile radio reports, employing hose lines without gimmicks, prioritizing ingress and egress concerns, executing searches that result in the highest potential for a positive outcome, and finding balance with ventilation practices between the studies, street dynamics, individual resource allocation, and deployment constraints. Finally, time will be spent exploring how to benefit from a candid post wartime tailboard talk so we can better expend our peacetime hours.

“Peacetime and Wartime”
Peacetime and Wartime bridges firehouse management and fireground actions building a seamless
mindset that supports individual development, strengthens company efficiency, advances organizational
growth, and facilitates alarm mitigation. How we conduct ourselves and utilize our time when not
responding is the greatest predictor of how we will perform when the tones drop. Unfortunately,
peacetime structure is one of the most overlooked and misused company level assets. We must be
purposeful in how we structure our day if we want to cultivate an internal cohesive social network,
enhance company level trust, and strengthen functional competency. This can be challenging with the
growing demands and expectations placed on us by administration and the public. The wartime
component of this class will examine experience-based lessons from the fireground ensuring we are
conducting meaningful size-ups, articulating worthwhile radio reports, employing hose lines without
gimmicks, prioritizing ingress and egress concerns, executing searches that result in the highest potential
for a positive outcome, and finding balance with ventilation practices between the studies, street
dynamics, individual resource allocation, and deployment constraints. Finally, time will be spent
exploring how to benefit from a candid post wartime tailboard talk so we can better expend our
peacetime hours.