Netcasting at FRI…The Voice of Reason with Sean Garrity from Rescue Me, Firefighter Netcast, and in Introduction to FireHero Radio

Last week, John Mitchell and I met up in Chicago for Fire Rescue International. I was accompanied by my good friend Willie Wines Jr. (IronFiremen.com) and we enjoyed a good bit of room in the Fire Rescue Magazine booth.

First of all, we had a blast. We were able to run into a bunch of great friends and meet plenty of new ones.

While we were there we had many things to accomplish:

• Record podcasts for Fire Rescue Magazine Editor-In-Chief Tim Sendelbach and many great guests.
• Record the first of many FireHero Radio sessions for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation with Dave Statter.
• Record a “The Voice of Reason” show with host Art Goodrich and guests Rob Schnepp and Steven Pasquale (plays Sean Garrity on Rescue Me).
• Record several other podcasts/netcasts for The Firefighter Netcast Show.

Amazingly enough, we were able to accomplish all of them. Unfortunately for us, we had many technical issues we had to overcome. Lessons have been learned and we will be more efficient next time.

The first of our shows was The Voice of Reason featuring Art Goodrich, Rob Schnepp, and Steven Pasquale. Steven plays firefighter Sean Garrity on Rescue Me. You can listen to their show right here from Firefighter Netcast or you can watch it on Youtube below. This is the first videocast that Firefighter Netcast has produced.

Read more about the show at ChiefReasonArt.com.

Many thanks to all who made that happen.

We were also able to record two shows including 3 interviews for FireHero Radio. FireHero Radio is a new project we are working on with Dave Statter for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Listen to them below.

• FireHero Radio from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: A talk about the Everyone Goes Home Program with Ralph Webster and Mike Brooks
• FireHero Radio from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: Richard Gist discusses NFFF’s Behavioral Health initiative; A talk with NFFF Director of Fire Programs Victor Stagnaro.

Art Goodrich, Rob Schnepp, Steven Pasquale, John Mitchell, and Rhett Fleitz

As for The Firefighter Netcast Show, we were able to record a short interview with Motorola on their new radio the APX 7000XE. We will have that online soon.

We also planned a post show recap of what the went on at Fire Rescue International. That didn’t quite work out the way we planned due to more technical difficulty. However, we were able to have Dave Statter and his wife Hillary Howard on the show to discuss the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. You can listen to that right here.

The FireRescue Magazine podcasts will be available by the beginning of the week hopefully.

We had a blast hanging out with everyone. More to come in the future!