#256 John Lord – Immersive Training, Firefighter Cancer & Understanding the here, now & beyond

John Lord retired as a station manager with Lancashire Fire & Rescue and has over 32 years of operational experience. He is now Training specialist in Incident Management & Fire Studio simulation software with his company SimTrainer UK.

Today we discuss many aspects of the sector including:

• Cancer in firefighting and Johns personal story as he and his wife were diagnosed with Cancer after he finished his career.
• Incident command principles, mindset & non-negotiables.
• How commanders need to understand the here, now & beyond when making decisions at incidents
• Why is essential firefighters and commanders understand legislation and its impact on “why” we do so many things.
• Aviation firefighting and johns pioneering work within this sector

Sim Trainer UK have trained and worked with 130 services & clients across the UK and overseas. They are the UK industry leader in the delivery of immersive, simulated training & and providing training courses as a SFJ Awards approved centre.

You can connect with John HERE (https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-lord-21671239/)
You can find out more about Sim Trainer UK HERE (https://www.simtrainer.uk/about/)
Visit their Youtube HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB8BOKU5_fA)

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