About this episode

Mickey and Jeremy discuss listener questions about situational awareness and response in firefighting under stress.

Mickey and Jeremy sit down and go through a few listener questions about situational awareness versus situational response and how we react once stress hits the equation. The conversation gets into recognizing changing conditions, controlling tunnel vision, firefighter IQ, and the love of the job that keeps guys constantly trying to get better. A straight conversation between two dear friends about awareness, response, and keeping your head clear when the dominoes start falling the wrong way at a fire.

People in this episode

Host: Mickey

Guest: Jeremy

Topics covered

• situational awareness
• situational response
• stress management
• firefighter training
• tunnel vision
• job passion

Keywords

• situational awareness
• firefighter IQ
• stress response
• tunnel vision
• firefighting
• job passion
• awareness

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