Fire & Rescue
It’s no secret: The fire service is changing. At Fitch & Associates, we help fire departments become agile organizations that function well in uncertain times.
Our team of consultants brings decades of experience at all levels of the fire service.
Fire & Rescue Consulting
Today’s fire departments face an ever-growing number of challenges like never before in their history. As a result, the value an outside expert can deliver is unprecedented. Fitch & Associates provides expert fire consulting services to local governments, as well as career, combination and volunteer fire departments of all sizes.
Fitch & Associates experts have:
At Fitch & Associates, we work with our U.S. and international clients using a scientific approach that combines measurement and modeling with our experience and their community’s needs. In addition to improving overall system performance, our fire service clients have successfully implemented deployment changes, upgraded EMS first response and initiated EMS/critical care transport.
Resources
Chief Concerns
In the hours after a train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people, news reports were already stating that the engineer’s recent work schedule would be examined.
Chief Concerns
Scrutiny. It may arrive at your doorstep in a variety of forms and perhaps when you are least prepared to deal with it. Increased scrutiny could arrive in the wake of questionable performance, like when a victim dies after a delayed response to a fire.
Articles
Non-profit EMS: Myths and truths
Strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of leading a non-profit EMS organization By Roxanne Peek, [...]
Successful and sustainable EMS mentoring programs
By Jay Fitch, PhD, Fitch & Associates Published by EMS1 Mentoring has been around for [...]
FBI, DHS, HHS warn of credible and imminent cyber threat to healthcare
By John Yeast & Anthony W. Minge, EdD Fitch & Associates The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure [...]
Fitch Insights & Perspective
Growing into the Future
For more than a decade we’ve worked to expand the firm’s capabilities for our clients, both old and new. We’ve [...]
Fitch Insights: PTSD-We Have Enormous Work to Do
"We all have to come to a place where we’re looking at what’s driving crisis among our responders." As EMS [...]
Fitch Insights – Dr. Brad Lee
Dr. Brad Lee, MD, JD, MBA, shares how early collaboration and partnership were the keys to success in a groundbreaking project, and [...]
Reports
2024 EMS Trend Report
EMS Trend Report: What paramedics want in 2024 is the latest iteration of the EMS Trend Report, produced through a [...]
2020 EMS Trend Report
This will be a defining year for EMS, shaped by new care delivery options, legislative mandates and the public spotlight. [...]
2019 EMS Trend Report: The Forces Shaping the Future of EMS
How will EMS advance at its current pace of change?
