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Get in gear.
We don't want your money.
Future Ready Fire is not a business. It's a mission. We don't want your money. We just want to normalize training in gear and build brotherhood amongst ALL departments.
Bear with us as we develop the site, but our goal with this site is to empower any passionate firefighter to represent themselves, their department or their cadre, and host their own gearwork events on this website, thereby allowing their fellow firefighters the opportunity to train in gear with them.
All you need is the following:
1. Motivated firefighter(s) who regularly get in their gear and train. (Servant-leadership a must!)
2. A Google account (we suggest something like: 'yourdept.gearwork@gmail"), and you can create a Google calendar using that account.
3. When you are ready, you can send us the Google calendar string and we will dedicate a page for you, your cadre or your department (example: futurereadyfire.com/country/region/.com).
There will also be a private forum in our future, where members from each department can discuss and arrange multi-agency events (e.g.: "Hey, I'm Firefighter Vader from Catoosa. I really wanna work on search with some other firefighters. Who's down?" or "Hey, it's Captain Kenobi from Walker County, and I got a crew who wants to...").
Please let us know if you have any questions! Thank you for your time.
The day we got our first masks for the program!! [Robin & Firefighter Miller]
Imagine this...
Organic mentorship. Fireground-ready firefighters.
Imagine this:
There is a firefighter, or a group of firefighters, in your department who regularly get in their fire gear, and move around in it. They may just walk around in the heat in their bunker pants, or fully gear up while breathing off their SCBA. Or they may climb stairs with a high-rise pack or swing the sledge at a tire.
But they are in some level of gear when they perform these functions, because they recognize the importance of training for the fireground before the fire happens.
They understand the critical importance of heat acclimation, maintaining a high level of proficiency with their SCBA, as well as building and maintaining dexterity with their gloves. They are passionate and committed to firemanship as a craft, as an Oath, as a brotherhood.
These firefighters are also enjoying the camaraderie that comes with sweating side by side at a worthy task. This effort unites them. They share fire stories, failures and successes. They learn about eachother. They drive eachother and mentor eachother.
And they do all of this voluntarily, and their department encourages this.
They are allowed to use the props, and the SCBA. They are given old gear to wear so their frontline gear doesn't get damaged. They're given access to anything and everything they can be given access to.
And when they are done with each gearwork event, they leave the training grounds (or wherever they meet) and the equipment better than they found it. They finish every gearwork session as better firefighters, more tightly bound and understanding of eachother than they were before.
This regularly scheduled, grass roots habit of gearwork is a refuge for their passion, after all. It's a place and time to hold themselves accountable and show up for eachother. They play music out there while they work, and bring food or grill out. Sometimes it's just two guys, and sometimes it's 17!
Now imagine a person interested in becoming a firefighter. Imagine they are encouraged to attend one of these gearwork events, to meet these firefighters, who exemplify servant-leadership, who are willing to put in the work and the time to be good at the job.
Imagine these interested civilians are allowed to put on some gear, flow from a hydrant, learn the basics of hall life and soak up the passion. Meanwhile, the firefighters get to know this person who is one of their citizens, who could one day be one of their fellow firefighters.
Now, imagine this citizen keeps coming back, and any barriers that prevent them from joining the department are addressed. These firefighters help prepare them for selection, for life as a firefighter, and in turn these firefighters improve upon their soft skills, their instruction skills, and high reps of the basics.
The relationship begins on day one, continues as this firefighter hopeful prepares for the academy, as they become a cadet and through their time at the academy, and follows them into the companies.
This newly minted firefighter now attends these gearwork events, perhaps even hosting their own and becomes a mentor themselves.
Imagine it's not just your department members who attend.
Imagine any firefighter is welcome, and these events occur at various departments. Imagine firefighters from all walks training together, voluntarily, organically. They are learning about eachother, while various tactics and equipment are discussed and explored.
Imagine if relationships between departments were fostered this way, and were normalized. Imagine if training in gear was normalized. Imagine if mentorship was available to anyone willing to show up, put on gear and do work.
This is the backbone of the Future Ready Fire program.
It's zero-cost, and all it takes is the mobilization and empowerment of the passionate among us.
Sweat equity in gear, plus the servant-leadership mentality equals an untold fortune of dividends in the areas of competency, capability, brotherhood and cardiac health...
Click the link or download the SERIOUSLY rough draft of the program/book below if you want more in-depth information (logistics, concepts, resources, etc.).
Message us with any questions or comments. Or just go ahead and implement it yourself. Make it work for YOUR department. We would humbly ask that you tell us how it goes... so that we may perfect the program and pass along lessons learned!
We are all in the fire service together. We are a brotherhood.
But we must put action to these words and make them true.
