Fire Critic An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service
The Monday Morning Shoutout this week is The Fire PIO.
I have always been intrigued by PIO work although I have never done it. I guess it is one of those things that I wouldn’t mind doing as a second career after my fire career is over or something to fall back on if I were to get injured. I think that I would be decent at it.
I have enjoyed following PIO Social Media Training.
Now there is a new guy on the block with a refreshing view of PIO work. The Fire PIO is run by Jeff Bressler.
Jeff Bressler is the Public Information Officer for the Smithtown Fire Department located on the North Shore of Long Island’s Suffolk County. An all volunteer department, Smithtown answers over 3,000 fire and EMS calls annually www.smithtownfd.org. (From his bio on the blog)
Jeff offers ideas for PIO’s, points out good and bad PIO work across the Nation, and blogs about other information for PIO’s. If you have not been following him you should check him out. His blog is one of the newer additions to the FireEMSBlogs.com community.
You can also follow him on twitter, facebook, and linkedin via links on his sidebar.
Great work Jeff!
