Firefighter Podcast
The Firefighters Podcast is an award winning global podcast developing, inspiring, connecting, motivating & celebrating the world of our emergency services operators through a series of wide-ranging conversations with those within our emergency services family.
Hosted by serving operational UK firefighter & Instructor Pete Wakefield who speaks with individuals from all walks of life who share a connection with, can add value to, or can develop those within the fire sector.
Our driving purpose is to create a legacy resource for the current and future generations of firefighters & first responders
Podcasting since 2020 • 427 episodes
Firefighter Podcast
Latest Episodes
#440 Debrief 3 floor residential Fire Massachusetts Nov 13 2019 Career Lieutenant Dies and Four Firefighters Injured
On November 13, 2019, a career lieutenant died, and four other firefighters were injured while fighting a residential structure fire. What began as a seemingly routine night-time call rapidly escalated into a complex, high-risk incident involvi...
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Season 6
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Episode 440
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35:15
#439 The Job, the Life & Everything in Between with Eternal Recruit Matt Akers
This episode is one of those conversations that quietly gets under your skin.I’m joined by Matt Akers, who currently serves in New Zealand, but whose journey through the fire service spans rural retained firefighting, aviation, Lo...
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Season 6
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Episode 439
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1:46:06
#438 Debrief Camp fire Paradise, California, USA, November 2018
In this episode, we take a deep, no-nonsense operational debrief of the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, November 2018, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire of the modern era in the United States. We walk through the incident as it unf...
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Season 6
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Episode 438
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31:09
#437 The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire Dublin 1875 with Las Fallon
In this episode, Pete Wakefield is joined by Las Fallon to explore one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood fires in European fire service history: the Great Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875. This was not simply a large urban fire. It ...
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Season 6
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Episode 437
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1:25:36
#436 DEBRIEF: The Station Nightclub Fire 2003 Rhode Island USA
In this episode, we take a deep, minute-by-minute debrief of the Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island. A small ignition during a live music performance led to rapid smoke production, catastrophic loss of tenability, and the deat...
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Season 6
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Episode 436
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16:09
