A Firefighting-focused podcast bringing you members' journeys and stories.
12/26/2025
Get • searching from windows. This department has been making huge strides on the fireground.
1st Engine stretched, Truck “all in for search” searched from windows on floor two and Searched beyond and to all searchable space with isolation and horizontal vent.
The First fire of the shift was similar: First due stretched and 2nd due engine was search.
They have completely changed their strategy and tactics to prioritize search.
They have been training with neighboring agencies with the entire area transitioning to beyond the door.
12/25/2025
Get • Some gentle words for anyone who’ve had a tough year ❤️🩹
12/24/2025
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12/23/2025
Get • There’s the family you’re born into, and the family you choose to serve with.
As you gather with your loved ones this Christmas, take a moment to appreciate that feeling of support and connection. It’s the foundation of everything good in life. Now, imagine finding a career that offers an extension of that bond.
In the fire service, your crew becomes your second family. It’s a brotherhood and sisterhood built on trust, shared meals, and the knowledge that when the alarm rings, someone always has your back. You aren’t replacing the support system you have at home - you’re gaining a whole new team to rely on when you’re on the job.
At Southwest Fire Academy, we don’t just teach you the skills to fight fires; we introduce you to the culture of teamwork that defines this profession.
Make next year the year you find your place in the ranks. Visit our website to view upcoming course dates and begin your journey.
Get • It’s ok to be thought of as crazy, as being too into the job and caring too much.
It’s ok if they think you’re trying to prove something.
It’s ok if they don’t understand you and what makes you tick.
It’s ok to love the job and believe you were born to do what you do.
It’s even ok if you make them uncomfortable.
The reality is that not everyone who does this job sees it as you do.
It’s a calling, a noble profession that requires a servant’s heart, a warrior’s spirit, and a no-quit mindset.
How can you expect someone just here for the paycheck and benefits to understand you?
So stop letting them affect you!
They don’t have to understand or even like you, but I guarantee you, they respect you.
Because even the ones who don’t do the job right know what doing the job right looks like, and it looks like you.
It’s ok to be criticized and misunderstood by people you want to be nothing like.
That’s actually success.
You wouldn’t give up on a fire, so don’t give up being you just because they don’t like you.
Be you. We need you.
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12/19/2025
One day they’ll figure it out on their own, but until then, let the enjoy the fantasy with their ignorant friends. 🎄🎅🏼🤶🏼 Photo credit:
12/16/2025
Get • Sir Anthony Hopkins recites lines from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one of T. S. Eliot’s most iconic poems. This dramatic monologue features the speaker, Prufrock, revealing his inner world, which is filled with hesitation, insecurity, and a fear of judgment. He invites the reader on a walk through a foggy, decaying city, symbolizing his own fragmented and anxious mind. As he contemplates expressing his feelings—possibly love—to someone, he is paralyzed by self-doubt, social anxiety, and the fear of rejection. Prufrock worries about how others perceive him, his aging appearance, and his thinning hair. He continually asks himself, “Do I dare?” Imagining that every word and gesture will be scrutinized, he struggles with the idea of taking a risk.Despite his longing for connection and meaning, he concludes that it is already too late. He feels disconnected from life, functioning more as an observer than a participant. By the poem’s end, Prufrock retreats into fantasy and resignation, acknowledging that he is not a heroic figure but an ordinary man overwhelmed by the complexities of the modern world. The poem captures the feelings of loneliness, indecision, and quiet despair experienced by a mind caught between desire and fear.
12/16/2025
Get • -Watch Your Step-
I’m going to be that guy, slips and falls account for almost 9000 FF injuries a year. Doors are not always our main entry point. It truly depends on our assigned task. Many times Truck / Rescue FFs find other entry points not only more feasible but put them in a more effective position.
Now all youse that have s**t in VES over years, well NIMS actually has window entry search as a task option when doing a report. All your hot air wasted, well done 👏.
Now when choosing to make window entry it’s VITAL to our survival to gain, and keep balance while moving. With our equipment at times it’s easier said than done. Now window entry means we have to take out the window, in turn causing broken glass and debris. Plus, if there’s anything in the window like an AC unit that’s coming out or going in, either way it’s getting moved.
When operating on a porch style roof, just like a flat roof for vertical vent, we’re walking how god intended us to, so our guard can be down. It’s vital to our survival to remain vigilant and understand broken glass on a roof, is basically the closest we will get to walking on ice. The debris is a massive trip hazard. We need to also understand that just becuase we’re on the exterior, smoke will still affect us. We’re making an opening within a fire building, that’s s**t coming out. Mask on and be ready.
It’s does not take much to vigilant, the thinking FF always thrives, not just survives.
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I'm a 22nd year, second generation Firefighter working for a Department in Southern Ontario, Canada, with around 400 suppression personnel,13 stations and 18 apparatus. I spent the first half of my career at a Technical Rescue station, six years working as a primary care medic, and 3 years instructing as a Fire Training Officer, and I've had the honour and pleasure of co-leading our Peer Support Team for the past few years.
When I first joined, we were a lot smaller and the Senior Firefighter on the truck with me for my first shift had been on longer than I had been alive. Outside of what he and many others taught me about the job, he recommended that I start a journal of all the calls and happenings around the hall so that one day I'd have the makings of a book. He was right, but unfortunately, of all the things I heeded and applied, that wasn't one of them. Point being, there are stories to tell and we all carry them; about us as individuals, as crews, as platoons, and as a Department. The wisdom and instruction about how to do the job are crucial, but the experiences and stories also help to shape our character and our Fire Family as a whole. Stories are important. Through story-telling, we find comfort in what connects us and expand our minds through our differences.
I've come late to the party when it comes to podcasts. A move this past summer that involves an hour plus commute, opened up the opportunity to fill that time with some quality content. I've been inspired by a number of podcasts and listed the fire-related ones on the Multiple Calls Website in the Resources section along with books, pages, websites, literature, and videos. You can also find a running list of those in the Fire Service at large that deserve our respect and acknowledgment for their efforts to keep us grounded and progressing, in the Credits section. Please message me if you want me to add someone.
We get to know each other very well in this line of work. From all that we experience together, we create strong bonds, and we use deeply meaningful words like Family and Brotherhood to describe them. As shift schedules, generations, where we choose to live, our societal norms, and the size of our departments change, our view of the importance, and tradition of the Fire Service Family and Brotherhood can be challenged, strained and at risk of being lost. This would be incredibly sad, tragic, and detrimental. We need to continue to invest in each other and learn and participate in each other's stories.
This podcast has come about because I wanted to provide a conduit for the great people within our own department and others to tell their stories. We will be talking about the how and why of each guest's journey to the job, what challenges they have faced overall and how they made it through them, the struggles they see for our service and their ideas on how each of us can help ground and progress the job, as well as what keeps them inspired and motivated. You will be getting to know your family better.
'Multiple Calls' is a phrase that catches a Firefighter's attention because it signifies that there is a strong possibility that what we are responding to is legitimate and will require us to be at our best. It is also what experience is made of. We're going to be at our best to capture your attention with legitimate stories and enrich our experience of this unique and amazing job.
