The Front Seat with Guest BC Mike Walker

On Wednesday June 8^th, “The Front Seat” on Firefighter Netcast will have Battalion Chief Mike Walker from the Oklahoma City Fire Department as a guest.  Battalion Chief Mike Walker has served with the Oklahoma City Fire Department for 21-years. Prior to his promotion to Battalion Chief, Walker was a Station Officer at Oklahoma City’s Technical Rescue Station and Haz-Mat Station. He served as a Training Officer within the department for 3-years. Chief Walker is a Task Force Leader for Oklahoma Task Force-1. 

Chief Walker will discuss training to an acceptable level of performance as well as some additional training methods and ideas he has been working with.  “The Front Seat” will also review several Firefighter Near Miss Reports and try and identify some common themes among them and ways to try an avoid the mistakes made.  The Near Miss Systems contains a tremendous amount of material and information, but it can be difficult sometimes to extract the salient points.  Hopefully by discussing these reports in the Netcast format the “nuggets” contained within these reports can be more easily reviewed.

Hope to see you Wednesday……