Fire Critic An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service
This weeks Monday Morning Shoutout goes out to one of the mainstays of Fire Blogs. The LAFD News & Information Blog has been online since 2004 making it one of the oldest “Fire Blogs”. I have followed along this blog for years now. The blog, headed by Brian Humphrey, is only one part of a system that Fire/EMS departments should strive for. The best part of the blog is the way it develops a relationship between the LAFD and the citizens and visitors of LA.
Brian regularly blogs about incidents, training, events, and all other things LAFD.
You can read more about Brian Humphrey in a 2006 article on him, the blog, and the communications center of LAFD here.
The article reads:
I grabbed a nice lunch yesterday with LAFD blogger/spokesman/ubergeek Brian Humphrey (more about his cool projects below) who showed me around what’s variously called the Bunker, the Ant Farm and the Emergency Operations Center – the central dispatch point for every single emergency handled by L.A.’s 103 fire stations …
Then goes on to say
In the private sector, Brian would be a 6-figure-salaried CTO with an army of developers. But here, he’s just a solo webmaster/blogger working 24-hour shifts four stories under City Hall East, for a huge, busy department, on city wages …
