FIRE Bulletin, Edition 1

April, 2020

As the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, FIRE Editor Andrew Lynch outlines the key elements required to transform our approach in his white paper, Coronavirus: A Five-Step Reset for Fire and Emergency Leaders.

It proposes leaders work towards establishing a clearly defined approach for addressing the five steps outlined in the white paper within their organisations, while also adopting a cross-sector, cross-disciplinary mindset. This calls for a total reset to recondition our way of thinking towards protecting society.

Five-Step Reset

Resetting the Ecosystem
Resetting Fire and Rescue
Resetting Dynamic Leaders
Resetting Resilient Communities
Resetting Connected Communities

FIRE’s Security Correspondent Dr Dave Sloggett looks at what the longer-term impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic might be for the emergency services in his article Beyond Coronavirus: Towards a new Flexible Fire and Rescue Service.