B Shifter

By Across The Street Productions

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Episodes: 181

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Fire command and leadership conversations for B Shifters and beyond (all shifts welcome)!


Episode Date
Blue Card Is A Safety System
May 15, 2026
Food Plant Fire In Ohio
May 07, 2026
Three Levels Of Air Management
Apr 28, 2026
Fire Command, 3rd Edition
Apr 16, 2026
Strategic Decision-Making For Commercial Fire Operations
Apr 09, 2026
Blue Card Rundown for April, 2026
Apr 03, 2026
Worcester Fire Chief Martin Dyer
Mar 20, 2026
Recruits and Command
Mar 12, 2026
Identifying Critical Fireground Factors at the Beginning of an Incident
Feb 27, 2026
Standard Conditions, Standard Actions, Standard Outcomes
Feb 12, 2026
How Leaders React & Interact
Feb 05, 2026
Blue Card Rundown January, 2026
Jan 22, 2026
Strategic Shifts
Jan 16, 2026
NFPA 1700, Connecting The Work
Jan 08, 2026
Command Lessons from Three 1.3M Sq Ft Distribution Center Fires
Dec 18, 2025
Effective Outcomes & Customer Service
Dec 09, 2025
The IC and Roadway Safety
Dec 04, 2025
Who Is Training The Senior Advisor?
Nov 20, 2025
Jarrett Tarver
Nov 13, 2025
Who Is Training Your Firefighters?
Nov 08, 2025
The Fire Department Mission Statement
Oct 30, 2025
Fit For Duty, Ready To Command
Oct 23, 2025
You Are First Due - Now Own it!
Oct 16, 2025
Building Trust
Oct 09, 2025
Assigning a Division Boss
Oct 02, 2025
Blue Card Rundown for September, 2025
Sep 22, 2025
Anatomy and Physiology of Leadership: Ears
Sep 10, 2025
Best of B Shifter: Initial Radio Report
Sep 05, 2025
The Silverback Blueprint: Strategic Planning & Department Culture
Aug 28, 2025
Why Incident Action Plans Matter
Aug 21, 2025
Why Risk Management Matters
Aug 14, 2025
Why Size-Up Matters
Aug 07, 2025
Strategic Shift in Cobb County
Jul 31, 2025
Push Brooms and Leaf Blowers
Jul 24, 2025
Blue Card Rundown for July 2025
Jul 16, 2025
Thermal Imaging Cameras for Size-up (Part 2)
Jul 03, 2025
Thermal Imaging Cameras for Size-up (Part 1)
Jun 30, 2025
Tickets to Transmit
Jun 19, 2025
The Silverbacks on Perspective (Part 2)
Jun 13, 2025
The Silverbacks on Perspective (Part 1)
Jun 05, 2025
Blue Card Rundown May 2025
May 22, 2025
Tickets & Strategy
May 14, 2025
Training Scars
May 01, 2025
The Silverbacks Give Advice for a New Fire Chief
Apr 24, 2025
The Blue Card Rundown for April, 2025
Apr 17, 2025
Triple Deckers and Command Considerations
Apr 03, 2025
4 Alarm Fire in Lincoln, NE
Mar 27, 2025
Silverback Leadership: Customer Complaints
Mar 20, 2025
30 Fires You Must Know: The Southwest Supermarket Fire
Mar 13, 2025
What Is Command Safety?
Mar 06, 2025
The New Blue Card ARFF Program
Feb 27, 2025
The Performance Improvement Model & Accountability
Feb 20, 2025
Incident Audio From Worcester, MA
Feb 13, 2025
Incident Audio with Rescue from Fairfield, Ohio
Feb 06, 2025
After Action Reviews
Jan 30, 2025
Technical Rescue
Jan 23, 2025
Current Events & Staffing
Jan 17, 2025
Silverback Leadership Module 1
Jan 06, 2025
NFPA 1700 and OSHA
Dec 30, 2024
Carbon Monoxide Incident with Rescue
Dec 16, 2024
Command Considerations for Carbon Monoxide and Natural Gas Incidents
Dec 02, 2024
Eight No Brainer Boss Strategies
Nov 25, 2024
Leadership Culture
Nov 18, 2024
Silverback Leadership and Fire Department Dynamics
Nov 11, 2024
Politics, Labor Relations & the Fire Department
Nov 04, 2024
The Silverbacks on Supervision
Oct 28, 2024
Good News Reporting
Oct 21, 2024
Best of B Shifter: The "Other" Radio Reports
Oct 14, 2024
Live from the 2024 Blue Card Hazard Zone Conference
Oct 07, 2024
Support Officers
Sep 30, 2024
Blue Card ARFF Module
Sep 23, 2024
Silverback Leadership Function 1
Sep 16, 2024
The Three Deep Model
Sep 09, 2024
Incident Audio (with Rescue) from Clay Fire Territory
Sep 02, 2024
Best of Ask The Chiefs
Aug 26, 2024
Up Front with a Timless Tactical Truth
Aug 19, 2024
LIVE! From Fire Rescue International in Dallas
Aug 14, 2024
Integrating Blue Card on All Three Levels When Training
Aug 12, 2024
Hot Washes, Command Presence, and Leadership Insights
Aug 05, 2024
Trash Talk (Fires in Trash and Recycling Facilities)
Jul 29, 2024
The PIO with Ashley Losch from Blu Helmet Media
Jul 15, 2024
Frank Leeb on His New Mission, Safety, Training and Effective Firefighters
Jul 09, 2024
Sprinkler Controlled Fire Incident Audio
Jul 01, 2024
Bruno's Hierarchy of Engagement for Chief Officers
Jun 24, 2024
The Role of Fire Control in Search & Rescue Operations
Jun 15, 2024
Strategic Shift in Vancouver, Washington
Jun 09, 2024
Bonus B Shifter: Radio Traffic From Cobb County (GA) with a Rescue
Jun 05, 2024
Blue Card Weighs in on Two-In, Two-Out
May 31, 2024
Silverbacks on Recruitment, Retention and Recognition
May 27, 2024
Creating a Culture of Safety
May 20, 2024
Ask The Chiefs: Some Pretty Good Career Advice
May 13, 2024
The Rescue Dilemma
Apr 29, 2024
RIT vs. On-Deck
Apr 22, 2024
Hernando County Fire/Rescue Incident Audio
Apr 08, 2024
Alan Brunacini's Customer Service for the Fire Service
Apr 01, 2024
Command Considerations for Flammable Gas-Related Incidents
Mar 24, 2024
Blue Card System Review and Revision Update
Mar 18, 2024
Remembering The Bret Tarver Incident
Mar 14, 2024
The Senior Advisor
Mar 04, 2024
The Kindness Conspiracy
Feb 26, 2024
Critical Fireground Factors
Feb 19, 2024
When Is It Time?
Feb 05, 2024
The Imbedded Safety Officer
Jan 22, 2024
Incident Audio: Three Different Departments
Jan 14, 2024
Year in Review & Looking Ahead to 2024
Dec 31, 2023
The Professional Development Difference
Dec 18, 2023
Ask The Chiefs: Communication
Dec 10, 2023
IC Task Saturation & Blue Card News
Dec 02, 2023
Consolidation of Fire Services
Nov 19, 2023
Blue Card News & Radio Traffic: VEIS with a Rescue
Nov 10, 2023
Customer Service & Leadership from The Inside Out
Oct 24, 2023
LIVE! Panel Discussion from the 2023 Blue Card Hazard Zone Conference
Oct 08, 2023
Incident Audio: Occupants in an Abandoned Building & Strategic Shift
Sep 25, 2023
Air Management
Sep 08, 2023
The 3 C's of Command Presence: A Conversation with Battalion Chief Steve Lester
Sep 01, 2023
Live From Fire Rescue International
Aug 18, 2023
Blue Card Command News & Incident Audio from a Routine Fire
Jul 31, 2023
Ask the Chiefs: Turnover in Fire in the Fire Service
Jul 16, 2023
Mixed Use Building Fires & When is it a Division?
Jul 03, 2023
Ask The Chiefs: The Zen Edition
Jun 18, 2023
Sprinkler Systems and Firefighters: A Powerful Partnership with Shane Ray
Jun 10, 2023
Unlocking the Potential of Adult Learning in the Fire Service: Strategies for Growth and Engagement
May 29, 2023
Ask The Chiefs - The Lost Episode
May 23, 2023
Ask The Ops Chief
May 19, 2023
ATC - Arbitration Overturned Firing & Keeping Passion For The Job!
Apr 16, 2023
Blue Card Radio Traffic Deconstructed
Apr 04, 2023
Command Presence & Advice from Bruno
Mar 25, 2023
Ask The Chiefs Part 1
Mar 19, 2023
Nick Brunacini & Vance
Mar 06, 2023
Risk Management (Does Not Mean Risk Averse!)
Feb 18, 2023
Leadership; Functional Boss Behaviors (it's about the work!)
Feb 11, 2023
Lithium Ion Battery Fires with FSRI's Adam Barowy
Feb 05, 2023
Continuous Improvement on the Fireground
Jan 29, 2023
B Shifter & Blue Card 2023 Preview and News
Jan 10, 2023
Radio Traffic from Three Different Departments
Dec 20, 2022
Leadership Thursday; Being Nice, Second Chances and a lot of A-holes
Dec 08, 2022
Open Shift (a variety of topics discussed)
Nov 29, 2022
Leadership Thursday with Nick, Terry and Vance
Nov 17, 2022
Frank Leeb, Deputy Assistant Chief of the FDNY talks Cancer Prevention and Work Life Balance
Nov 08, 2022
Leadership Thursday with Nick, Terry and Vance
Nov 03, 2022
Accountability in the Hazard Zone
Oct 25, 2022
The Emergency Alert Button and Maydays Safety Advisory
Oct 20, 2022
Division Operations
Oct 11, 2022
Rescue and Blue Card Without a Dispatch Center Radio Traffic
Sep 27, 2022
FSRI's Study of Fire Service Residential Home Size-up and Search & Rescue Operations
Sep 14, 2022
Fire Science with Daniel Madrzykowski
Aug 30, 2022
The Case for Certification Based Training (including the IC!)
Aug 16, 2022
Rescue Radio Traffic Part 2
Aug 02, 2022
Rescue Radio Traffic
Jul 16, 2022
Vincent Dunn Part 2
Jun 23, 2022
Looking For Training? New Workshops Announced! (Plus how to get Blue Card training delivered to you locally and CTC update)
Jun 17, 2022
Vincent Dunn Part 1
Jun 08, 2022
The Help Order
May 26, 2022
Blue Card for Tech Rescue, Haz Mat, Water Rescue and Other Events
May 10, 2022
Big Box Fires Part 2 with Shane Ray (Pull Up & Hook Up!)
Apr 23, 2022
MAYDAY in Lubbock
Apr 19, 2022
Big Box Bulletin!
Apr 12, 2022
Wind Driven Fire Radio Traffic (with upgraded response)
Apr 05, 2022
Project Mayday Updated
Mar 22, 2022
Colerain Mayday with Chief Allen Walls
Mar 08, 2022
Real World Radio Traffic (with strategic shift)
Feb 22, 2022
Preview of a new podcast, "The Chief's Challenge"
Feb 08, 2022
Murrey Loflin talks about Bruno, NFPA 1500, LODD Investigations & Fire Command
Jan 29, 2022
More Outstanding Radio Traffic (IRR, CAN's, Transfers and Strategic Shifts)!
Jan 17, 2022
After Action Reviews
Dec 28, 2021
Oh Christmas Tree!
Dec 17, 2021
The "Other" Radio Reports
Nov 28, 2021
What is Blue Card & Where Did It Come From?
Nov 02, 2021
The Initial Radio Report
Oct 19, 2021
Remembering Alan Brunacini
Oct 15, 2021
Welcome to The AVB CTC
Oct 05, 2021
We call her Garrido, the Editor in Chief of B Shifter Quarterly (with Nick Brunacini)
Sep 21, 2021
Rich Merritt - Firefighter & Computer Sim Guy
Sep 07, 2021
Rescue Lt. Grant Light, Company Leadership & a Mayday from the Inside
Aug 24, 2021
Nick Brunacini & Jeff King Refute the Blue Card Blues
Aug 10, 2021
Meet Jeff King, Blue Card Professional Development Manager
Jul 27, 2021
Terry and Nick's Splendid Experience's
Jul 13, 2021
Jeff Griffin, Hero to Zero and Back to Hero
Jun 29, 2021
Managing Maydays with Josh Blum
Jun 15, 2021
Don Abbott and Project Mayday
Jun 01, 2021
Trailer for Season 1
May 26, 2021