Passing Along the Inside|Jim Walkowski|FIRExTalk PDX’15

What is FIRExTalk?

The FirexTalk one-day firefighter conference is designed to help fire service communities, organizations and individuals spark conversation and connection through a local TEDx-like experience.

At a FIRExTalk event, twenty 20 minute “talks on fire” are given by local presenters. Each presentation is professionally video recorded and placed on the FIRExTalk YouTube channel and website. This sparks conversation and connection at the local and national level. FIRExTalk events are planned and coordinated by FIRExTalk llc.

MAIN POINT OF TOPIC: One of the greatest educational gaps in the fire service is the unwillingness or inability for experienced firefighters to pass along the necessary and often time lost “traditional” interior firefighting skill-set and knowledge to new firefighters. Unfortunately, tradition is often replaced technology, rhetoric, and gimmicks. “Passing along the Inside” focuses on what skills and abilities are being lost in today’s fire service and how to get them back!
PRESENTER: Jim Walkowski has 29 years in the fire service and progressed through the ranks of Firefighter, Company Officer, and Chief Fire Officer. He serves as the Assistant Chief of Emergency Services with Spokane County Fire District #9 where he is responsible for Fire/EMS Operations, Training, and Special Operation Divisions of the District. He serves on numerous teams and committees including the Spokane County Type 3 Incident Management Team and Regional Urban Search and Rescue Team.
Jim is also an instructor with Four Brothers Training which provides quality fire service instruction focused on task and tactical level functions necessary for a mission-focused fireground.

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