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This podcast features fire chiefs and influencers talking about the latest trends and issues impacting today’s evolving fire service.
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- 5 days ago23 min
Serving a changing fire service
Oakville Fire Chief and new Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs president Paul Boissonneault joins Tom DeSorcy to discuss how the fire service has changed over the years, and how to serve it moving forward. This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.
- Sep 25, 202621 min
Tactics for Livestock Rescues
In this episode, host Tom DeSorcy speaks with Wendy McIsaac about the critical need for specialized training in large animal rescue. Wendy shares her personal journey—from experiencing a tragic horse trailer accident to founding Wellington County Livestock Emergency Response—and outlines how first responders can build technical skills, understand animal behaviour, and integrate veterinarians into incident command to ensure successful outcomes.This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.
- Sep 4, 202623 min
New layer of response: Lithium-ion
Kelowna Fire Department assistant training officer Bryan Nykilchuk joins host Tom DeSorcy to discuss the emerging risks electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries pose to the fire service. A career firefighter since 2005, Nykilchuk began researching EV and battery hazards after learning about a 2025 incident in Sacramento, Calif., where four firefighters were exposed to a Tesla undergoing thermal runaway despite being several hundred feet away. He has since developed an EV and lithium-ion battery awareness program for Kelowna firefighters that covers key hazards, response considerations and the strategies and tactics crews can use when responding to battery-involved incidents.This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.
- Aug 7, 202622 min
Understanding the chief-HR relationship
Human Resources manager Constance MacDonald joins host Tom DeSorcy to discuss her role working within and supporting fire departments, while also discussing how every people issue is an HR issue.
- Jul 3, 202624 min
Managing a two-year gas well crisis
Chatham-Kent Fire Chief Chris Case joins host Tom DeSorcy to discuss his unconventional rise up the ranks of the fire service through the United Kingdom and now Canada, and his experience dealing with an abandoned gas well incident in 2021 that forced residents out of their homes and mandated his department be on scene for over two years. This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.Fire Chief Chris Case began his career with Merseyside Fire Brigade in Liverpool, UK, in 1991, going on to lead the UK's only joint Police/Fire/Counter Terrorism team and serve in Special Operations across Europe and the US before becoming District Chief in 2010. He joined Chatham-Kent Fire in 2016, rose to Fire Chief in 2020, became a Canadian citizen in 2023, and continues, with 35 years of service under his belt, to champion Community Safety for the citizens and firefighters of his home, Chatham-Kent.
- Jun 5, 202623 min
The cost and ROI of firefighter mental health
Fire Chief Dallas D'Aoust is a strong advocate for mental health, leading an initiative that secured dedicated mental health funding for his previous department in Yorkton, Sask. In this month’s podcast he discusses the cost of mental health and what that means for today’s firefighters. D’Aoust has spent over 20 years in the fire service after beginning his career in Edmonton. Note: Since recording, D’Aoust has moved into a new role as fire chief for Cochrane, Alta.
- May 1, 202619 min
Talking recruitment with the Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year
Tom DeSorcy sits down for a discussion with CAFC Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year Wayne Power, who has served as the fire chief of the Placentia Fire Department in Newfoundland since 1979. The two discuss how Power began his career as a volunteer firefighter, how his department’s recruitment and staffing strategies are shifting, his fire hall’s close ties to the Placentia municipal government, and why he’s still chief at 72 years old. This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.
- Apr 10, 202628 min
Does daylight savings time matter?
Mike Harnett, president of Solaris Fatigue Management, and Steve Farina, a well-known advocate in first responder mental health who served 32 years in B.C.’s fire service, join Tom DeSorcy to discuss B.C.’s decision to permanently shift their clocks forward and the effects that sleep and fatigue have on a firefighters’ physical and mental health. This episode is brought to you by VFIS of Canada, a division of CVIS Incorporated, Canada’s largest insurer of firefighters since 1991.
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