For Every Response

This time, we bring you a shorter episode from the show, featuring Lucy Macleod, a borough commander for the London Fire Brigade. Lucy shares the findings from her recent postgraduate research into bariatric evacuation and rescue during high impact events in London. With specialist procedures and techniques required, Lucy looks at the capacity in place to ensure rescues are carried out with dignity.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Lucy Macleod, London Fire Brigade

 

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Catherine Levin talks to Professor Shane Ewen about his involvement in a new play called Trailblazing - women have always been firefighters. It's a conversation about cultural change and uses stories to show the evolution of women working in the fire and rescue service. 

It is an impressive collaboration with arts organisations in West Yorkshire to create a play, drawing on research and oral histories. The play shares women’s experience of working in the fire service in the second world war, in the 1980s and in recent times. It is a West Yorkshire experience, but it speaks to themes that go beyond this part of the country.

Listen on to find out more about the play. 

For more information on the play and the wider work Shane is doing in this space, email him directly:  s.ewen@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Professor Shane Ewen, Leeds Beckett University

 

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This is the first of three episodes led by the Emergency Planning Society. In this one we hear from a panel of experts who explore the critical role of communication in fostering trust, collaboration, and empowerment. They highlight the shift from fear-based messaging to transparent, preparedness-focused communication.

Speakers:

• Jeannie Barr, Emergency Planning Society 
• Amanda Coleman, Amanda Coleman Communications
• David Crouch, Cranfield University
• Joanne Maddams, West Northamptonshire Council

 

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The complexity of working with fingerprint lifts at crime scenes is challenging but a vital part of investigations. This is why the Digital Fingerprint Capability is a revolution for forensics and in this episode experts share how this has developed and how it integrates with key policing technology and infrastructure.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• James Earnshaw. Police Digital Service
• Stephen Gait, Police Digital Service
• Richard Meffen, Police Digital Service

 

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West Midlands Police is giving its new recruits virtual reality headsets to experience incidents from the victim’s point of view. In this episode hear about the force’s work with community interest company Calico and how they have been working with recent recruits to help them as they start their career in policing.

Speakers:

• Joy Flanagan, host
• Laura Burke, West Midlands Police
• Daz Scott, Calico

 

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In a first for the pod, we have gone stateside. Listen as Catherine Levin catches up with the chief of the Detroit Fire Department who she met more than a decade ago. They chat with Cory Hohs, the CEO of safety firm, Haas Alert about the modernisation of the fire department in motor city, how safety alerting forms part of keeping frontline responders safe and why data is key to improving outcomes. 

Read more about the collaboration between DFD and Haas Alert. 

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Commissioner Chuck Simms, Detroit Fire Department

Cory Hohs, Haas Alert

 

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In this episode the panel led by the National Fire Chiefs Council looks at the risk from contaminants in all aspects of firefighter activity. Chaired by ACFO Luke Gazzard, the panel discusses how to minimise risk, whether that’s on the fireground or back at the fire station, as all services grapple with the problem of lowering the risk of exposure.

 

Speakers:

• Luke Gazzard, Avon Fire and Rescue Service (host)
• Becky Yates, Avon Fire and Rescue Service
• Peter Arnevall, Stockholm Fire Brigade
• John Asher, West Midlands Fire Service
• John Ashton, West Midlands Fire Service

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Effective multi-agency collaboration is paramount during major incidents, yet capturing lessons from complex events poses significant challenges. This episode sees Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service outline its strategic implementation of ISARR, a dedicated organisational learning and lessons management platform.

Speakers:

• Rich Preston, host
• Neil Sadler, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Matt Butler, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service

 

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Get a frontline insight into the control room with findings from a staff centred project to identify, assess, better understand and effectively manage the root causes of work-related stress. Join Humberside Police and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service in this episode to learn about their work with psychologists from the University of Hull.

 

Speakers:

• Léa Fréour, University of Hull, host
• Fiona Earle, University of Hull
• Ryan Stacey, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Luke Shaw, Humberside Police

 

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In this short bonus episode we learn all about the Gratitude Games which is a new event for the emergency services taking place in Manchester in June 2026. 

Catherine Levin went to the launch early in November to talk to the founders and the emergency services who are supporting it. She finds great enthusiasm for using sport to bring people together, to have conversations about the mental health of those on the frontline while raising money for six great causes.

Find out more here: https://gratitudegames.uk/

Speakers: 

Catherine Levin, Emergency Services Times

Mark Downard, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Ricky Nuttall, formerly of London Fire Brigade

Kate Green, Deputy Mayor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Louise Harrison, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Geoff Cheshire, Police Care

 

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The clean cab concept is well known to fire and rescue services. In this episode the panel expands the approach to embrace all vehicles used by firefighters when thinking about reducing exposure to contaminants from the fire ground. Find out about the practicalities of keeping vehicles as clean as possible and what techniques services can adopt to keep firefighters safe.

Speakers:

• Luke Gazzard, Avon Fire and Rescue Service (host)
• Dave Teggart, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Richie Moore, West Midlands Fire Service
• Lucie Attwood, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service

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Following on from last year’s conversation with Simon Parr who heads up the Emergency Services Network programme, we learn in this episode about the technology and the partnership with suppliers. The panel led by programme operations director, Niall Stokoe, talks about the progress of the technical delivery of ESN which will enable the national deployment of 4G based critical communications services to all emergency services users.

Speakers:

• Niall Stokoe, ESMCP, host
• Nigel Smith, ESMCP
• Mark Taylor, IBM
• Matt Hall, BT EE
• AC Mark Nottage, National Police ESN coordinator

 

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