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Tillered Aerials and Safety Collaboration
Hilton Head Island Truck 6 working in Palmetto Dunes.In the years before becoming a chief officer I spent the very large majority of my career as a truck company officer. The last ten years of my...
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Power of Positive
I have heard it said that the only reason a bee can fly is because it doesn’t know it shouldn’t. And I am fully aware that this notion has been debunked because those beliefs were originally based on...
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We Try Harder
SC-TF1 Demobilizing From Chalmette, LA after Hurricane Katrina, 2005.I had the opportunity to be part of a test rehearsal for a web conference going on Friday. In one of the questions, we were asked,...
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A Belated Father’s Day Tribute
I probably could have posted this on Father's Day, but after the events I experienced this week, it's really good to see it in context. I continue to believe that being a father is a very difficult...
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The Antidote To Road Rage
Being a reader of FHZ requires you to maintain an open mind. Even if you don't agree with both sides of the issues here, understanding the contrary view permits perspective and in some cases, deeper...
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You Can Quote Me On That (Before 2010)
I was driving down the road the other day and thinking, you know, I too could have a list of quotes, just like the real writers have. So in the interest of filling up a page of useless knowledge, I...
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Zen Zone #3
My youngest daughter came to me this morning with a sponge she said was "broken". When I looked at it, I showed her it was dried and cracked, but when we wet it, it became useful again. Each of us is...
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Recharging
I am here in Granby, Colorado, doing a truck company operations course for a few of the Middle Park departments. Other than our hosts from the Grand Fire District, we have some great guys and gals...
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Perfect Alignment
A few weeks ago, there was a tragic sequence of events that occurred in a community in our county. While working a medical alarm, a City of Beaufort fire engine was stolen by a man, who in his flight,...
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Gone Shrimping
I grew up in the urban Northeast. In the thirty years I have been in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I have had a few laughs about my cluelessness with the things a "boy growing up in these parts"...
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