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These are the first responder situational awareness and decision making issues and opportunities related to weather and environmental factors.

Meta Awareness

10 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Leadership, Meta Awareness, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Weather /

  Developing and maintaining situational awareness at an emergency scene can be a very challenging task. Scenes are often stressful, complex, time-compressed, and complicated with rapidly-changing conditions. Responders have lots of information to process and many tasks to perform. And, sadly, situational awareness isn’t always the forefront on their minds. Under such conditions, meta awareness […]

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Episode 35 – PART 1 Interview with Close Call Survivor Lionel Crowther

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Auditory exclusion, Building Construction, Close Call, Communications, Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Intuition, Line of Duty Death, Mayday and RIT, PAR, Personnel location, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Training, Weather /

This episode is PART 1 of a two-part interview with Winnipeg Firefighter Lionel Crowther. Listen in as Firefighter Crowther recounts his close call survivor story about an incident where he sustained 2nd and 3rd degree burns and two of his comrades lost their lives while fighting a dwelling fire.   Length: 65 minutes click the

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