For the past couple weeks I have been working with someone from the National Marrow Donor Registry to encourage Vermont firefighters to join the registry in support of Firefighter Chris Fretta of the Castleton (VT) Fire Department. It occurred to me this morning that this information needs a wider audience. There has been information on the Nation in the past about the registry, but perhaps it's time for another reminder!



Help Chris & Others!



Chris Fretta, 24, a… Continue

Okay, so I've been here for a long time (in FFN terms anyway) and have yet to make a blog post. I'm going to cheat and use a part of the speech that I gave Saturday night when I was installed as President of the Vermont State Firefighters Association....



There are many lessons that I have learned over the span of my fire service career. I’d like to share a couple of them with you.



The first is “don’t run”. We all know, or should know, that running on the scene is to be… Continue