Public Information Officer - A Day in the Life
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2022
- On this episode of "A Day in the Life" ride along with Public Information Officer (PIO) Eric Hurst during an extreme fire danger and high wind day on the Colorado Front Range.
0:23 - Introduction to PIO responsibilities
3:31 - News requests
4:55 - News interview
7:04 - New training center sign
7:36 - Vegetation fire response
10:11 - Commercial carrier fire response
17:50 - News story airs on TV
21:23 - Conclusion
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Now all we need is day in the life of a Bureau Chief or investigator
@seth white yes we do sir
Yes, fire investigator.
They’ve done it I believe
They said there doing investigator later in the year
They have a day in the life of Bureau it’s called day in the life of district chief
"Prepare like you're new, perform like you're not." Love that!
Each time I watch this I so want to share the importanve of each and every first responder. You are all trained the same for a reason this allows you to be put into any role or capacity where needed.
You can see after arrival how Eric went from PIO EnRoute to First Unit or Aparatus on Scene, to giving a size up or 360. Then went to FF Ground Support. Grabbing a 5” line for hydrate access, then asking where the hydrant bag is as he is unfamiliar with the layout of this specific apparatus, to aiding in anyway possible, back to PIO and giving out updates on this trash fire. It just shows why everyone does the exact same training. Great job Eric and SMFR
Very cool to see Eric running around getting hose lines ready and stuff, not very often we get to see that
AGREE GREAT JOB PIO ERIC
Eric seems to have a pretty strange luck with being first on scene as a PIO. Back in the days he was first on scene of a working residential in his neighborhood
Which vid was that?
@@peanut111shorty czcams.com/video/OBEun7eA5-c/video.html
Are you trying to say he’s starting these fires ? Lol
@@gamecop2191 Certainly seems like that was being implied lol! I mean, he did say he “creates his own content” sometimes, guess that’s a good way! 😂
7:38 when your PulsePoint went off I grabbed my phone and was confused when I didn’t have an alert lol.
This episode is particularly interesting for me in that I have over 20 years of communications experience (a good bit of which working in media relations and public information management), but also serve as official photographer for a small volunteer fire company in Central New York. As a PIO, Eric's job requires much more 'realtime' engagement than in my case, being both proactive and reactive as it relates to the exchange of information be it via social media, in person, or more traditional media. It's also interesting to learn what types of incidents they respond to as a PIO which are not unlike those I respond to as 'Photo1.' I very much appreciate his efforts, not only bringing attention to the fire service, but packaging the information in such a way that it is easily accessible and understood by the general public.
What department?
@@stueyexmcfd Mottville (NY) Volunteer Fire Company
Of course the time you decide to turn the camera around on yourself it turns into a First Due vlog, which frankly are the best ones. Another great video Eric! Keep up the good work! Thank you from Georgia.
Eric, yet another 5 star video from SMFR. I got the hint with the product placement of that CZcams plaque. Nice work. I've showed our team locally your subliminal challenge. Stay safe out there to all of you.
Thank you so much!
Awesome video. In my opinion you have taken social media in the fire service to a new level.
Thank you!
Thanks for this great video, nice to see pio10 in action again.
Awesome video, really would love to see "Fire Investigator - A Day in the Life"
To South Metro Fire Rescue,
Thanks for all you do. I can't say thanks enough to you all. Keep everything well and stay healthy. Can't wait for this amazing Day in the Life video. Greetings from Woodland Park CO.
I do have a question. Why did you want to be a PIO? Thanks South Metro. Yall are my favorite dept in Colorado
Great video Eric. We love the day in a life of series.👍🚒
Great “day in the life” video Eric! You and your colleagues in the PIO department do a wonderful job representing your department and presenting factual and interesting information! Keep doing a first rate job! 🇺🇸
Thank you so much!
Love it! Thanks for inviting us into your day Eric!
Thank you and awesome job, Eric and SMFR.
Bibi
Thank you Eric for this series, especially this season explaining the various jobs and vehicles used in your fire/rescue service.
Wow! This is powerful. There is a story everywhere and everyones stories is important! Thank you South Metro PIO Team!
Thank you!
Really interesting with the trash fire, you did an amazing job assisting the crew of that fire truck Eric well done
Thank you!
Good video and view into a day in the life. Glad to see you had that rare chance to get your hands dirty on the trash truck fire. Thanks for all your work.
Awesome to see Eric in his day job! Huge fan of both channels!
Thanks!
Thank you for educating the public on Red day. In MD this we were under Red flag warning for the last three days. It is so important for everyone to do their part to prevent fires.
Awesome job on getting in there to help these guys out Eric!
I enjoy all the SMFR videos, I find them informative and very well put together. I live in Florida and follow our city's fire rescue on Twitter, which is how I get most of my news about what is happening. So social media is an excellent way of getting the info out!
Thank you for watching!
This is the best way to tell your story, and ultimately inform the community what they are paying for.
Great video! Always great to see
Love all of these day in the life episodes!
YESSS FINALLY!!! IVE WAITED FOR THISSS
What a great video on your position! Very interesting and educational. Thanks Eric.
Hey Eric, you are awesome keep up the good contact
You’re a great fit for your position and it shows in your production. I liked the switch of the intro music/radio traffic in today’s video. I don’t know if you might have multiple intros but I personally like the dispatch traffic in the background. I did volunteer fire for a few years and EMS for a dozen years and I do miss listening to dispatch but so much of the radio traffic nowadays is 800 mhz.
Thank you!
Great work and great video! Have been looking forward to seeing one like this
Thank you!
Great to be informed about your role on the other side of the world. Your unique approach compares well with Australians down under. Keep up the great work and interesting videos.
Thank you!
I love your videos. Thank you!
Again Great Job, thanks for all the interesting videos.
Greetings from Germany
Michael
I love seeing these videos Eric as a firefighter from New Zealand we don't have things like a PIO and that kinda stuff so it's really awesome to see how you ladies and gents do things in the states but please be safe my friend and keep up the amazing work 🥰 ps. You'll have a few patches coming your way 😎
Great video Eric! Keep up the great work your team is doing!
Thank you!
Great video Eric, love seeing how you guys operate
This one is a long time coming! The hype is real.
YES
I live in Seattle Washington and am currently applying for SFD. We don’t have as good of a CZcams presence as south metro. Your channel has been amazing in applying and how the training and career track will go. Thanks for all you do.
Thank you and best of luck in your hiring process!
Good luck with SFD. I was with AMR Seattle and spent my whole career on the SFD fire contract side responding to calls with them. Their academy is tough, but they produce some quality fire fighters.
Hi from New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
Just some info....as a trash truck operator, dumping a "hot" load is standard practice. Doesn't matter if they're diesel, CNG or alternative fuels. Easier to clean a burnt trash fire then replace a truck. Awesome work on that fire btw!!!
Great video, Eric.
Another great video, really enjoy watching your videos. Stay safe everyone.
awesome job, great luck in being first on scene, and assisting
Y'all are so good as y'all do the videos
You do your job very well. I haven't seen a single video that I did not like. They are always very informative and entertaining at the same time even if you don't smile as much as Connor. Awesome job getting to use your previous skills to actually help out on this fire. I did recently subscribe once I found your channel. I have friends in the past that were fire fighters, 1st Responders, as I was, and really enjoy watching your work. I also have a young mom that is currently pursuing becoming a fire fighter and will be sharing this channel with her. She just might want to check SMFR oiut too.
Awesome look into the very important job you guys do. Side note: That Sutphen tower is an awesome rig.
Thank you!
Great episode… would like to see a behind the scenes of a IDT activation. And a following of the SMFR IMT during a response. Keep up the great work! Stay safe brothers and sisters. From Ohio
Can you do a day in the life of a firefighter, but follow them for the whole 48 hour shift? Be interesting too. See how they manage it and what they go through.
Great suggestion! We’ve actually been discussing that and plan to show one later this year.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO Thank you, I’m a firefighter in the UK we don’t even do 24s yet so I’m interested how 48s works. Thank you for the great content!
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO keep up mthe good work ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love watching your videos
Hey Eric i loved the video and today just made me want to be a firefighter even more when i get older love the videos keep up the great work
Excellent! Best of luck in your pursuit of firefighting!
Greetings from Denmark. Great video, Eric! Keep it up:-)
Great information, thank you for sharing. Stay safe.
Awesome! Nice work!!
Hello Eric love your videos it teaches in-depth look at how to prevent fires
I saw some pretty nice gear! Pretty certain a Sony A7C, G Series lens, and I know that Peak Design tripod isn’t cheap! Glad to see an organization that takes the PIO role seriously and will happily equip y’all with great stuff! Great video!
Eric putting in work!
Great video!
watching from Australia
I am from Jamaica, Disaster Tough Podcast led me here, and this is strong work and awesome stuff!
Welcome to the South Metro channel! Thank you!
3:07 JOB TOWN!!!!!!
I love the video was waiting for the pio vlog now we need a day in the life of Connors new job by the way I watch from Edmonton Alberta Canada
As usual, very well done, informative and educational. Also, neat to find out South Metro sent a brush crew out here to assist us with our fires here in Arizona high country,. I am in the southeastern outskirts of the Phoenix metro area, well far from those fires. It also our windy season and that can play a disastrously danger role in what ordinally would be a simple structure fire. Case in point six years ago there was a major structure fire in the center of The Town of Gilbert at an apartment complex under construction. A roofer's torch was identified as the cause. Even with fire crews only a couple blocks away the combination of high winds and exposed lumber the fire quickly spread and consumed the entire complex including finished buildings. Embers also carried across a large street igniting the roofs of a garage and main office building of a neighboring complex across the street. Luckily the complex had yet to open and there were only minor injuries to some police officers and firefighters. Also, no occupied structural loss other than the Leasing Office of the neighboring complex. There were many single family residential structures behind the neighboring complex as well as across from the incident site, fire crews (many from neighboring cities) were able to protect those exposures.
Would love to see a 'day in the life' of an investigator. It was mentioned in one of the prior PIO Vlog videos there was going to be more information in a future video about a residential structure fire caused by spontaneous combustion. There was a residential structure fire out here earlier this week that was believed to have been caused by Linseed Oil soaked rags. No injuries, but the home was a complete loss.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to leave us note! Red Flag / High Wind days are always worrisome for any fires that start. South Metro had a similar circumstance with a roofers torch that destroyed a home and damaged the neighbors on a windy day a few years ago.
We are in the planning process for the DITL of a Fire Investigator video and we'll have them discuss fire causes, especially spontaneous combustion.
Being as I was in PAO for the U.S. Army here in Europe, I can really relate to this story. No day was like any other day. We were responsible for 52 countries and had PA stringers all over Europe getting stories along with getting information to us for all media outlets world wide. This was a very well presented story and South Metro should be proud to have such a professional on hand to get the command message out there and let the community know what is going on right away. Well done.
Wow, that must have been a massive amount of information and quite a challenge to sort through! Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO Thank you for the response. To clarify. In the military we were known by the Soldiers for doing "Grip & Grins, Meet & Greet, and award ceremonies", and few knew what really went on behind the scenes. In reality, it was the hardest job I ever loved. I am glad that you posted this so it gives the public a chance to meet you, your outfit and honestly see what goes on behind the scene of PI or as we call it PA. Same mission, different name.
@@AmericanPocketWatch Very interesting! I've had few interactions with PAO's but I thoroughly enjoyed a conference presentation given by a long time Army PAO. He also expressed a similar sentiment, "the hardest job I ever loved." Sounds like a great title for your future memoir ;-)
Im in the UK but still like to watch this channel
Hey from norway Stay safe every firefigthers
Hi, I'm from Poland, it's great to watch your materials.
Thanks for watching!
That was really cool 😎
I think you have my dream job. My dad was a firefighter and I’ve always loved chasing shiny red trucks.. but my career took me into the arts as a designer. Looks like you encompass playing with fire trucks, helping people and get to use your creative side every day. Yep, that would do it for me, but not much call for that here in in the U.K.
This job is the perfect fusion of the things I enjoy most! I highly recommend you pursue it!
Love All Your Videos I am In Vancouver BC Canada
More day in the lifes please
Eric thank you so much for inspiring me to become a pio
I'd be interested in more PIO, day in the life videos especially during more busy seasons like a red flag day etc.
Thanks, we plan to have more first person style vlogs this year.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO great
the funny thing and the thing i understand but the first brush fire you guys about dispatched the entirety of my fire department but i totally understand why you guys do it
You guys should do a day in the life of either a fire chaplain or a fire investigator
Good job I love your videos
6:11 outside of Prescott you say? (It makes me remember the granite mountain hotshots rip)
Can you all do more videos on the wildland aspect of South Metro? Such as videos on the supervisors and what a typical seen would look like. Thanks and as always great video.
Absolutely! We've been talking about capturing a more detailed look and explanations of how SMFR responds to and mitigates working incidents.
Wow!!!!
inspireing
I love your video
Are there any plans for doing ride alongs with various stations/apparatus beyond the day in a life series? To me, daily operations are the most interesting thing to watch and learn.
Yes, we've been talking about the day in the life series including a specific company or firehouse as we schedule new videos.
This would be great. To combine with another comment, do something like "A tour/shift in the life of Engine ##/Truck ## etc" where you follow an apparatus and its crew for an entire 48 hour tour.
It was last week there was a red flag warning with winds up to 30-40 mph and there were evaluations and I could smell smok about 3 miles away while in school
Way to go Eric! Great hustle on the water supply! Question: why was the ladder used to get water on the truck? Vs establishing another line or unit for ground attack? Just curious...you guys all rock!
To get over the pile of trash in the back of the truck and get water to the front. Eats the heck out of climbing through trash 😂 Also looks like they’re using the initial 1 3/4” line they deployed
Thank you! The Captain decided the safest way to apply water to the smoldering areas of the truck was from the aerial platform.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO yes nice job Eric great hustle we are proud of ya.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO Thanks! Be safe!
As a TV news producer, I definitely appreciate how proactive you are with getting out information. The on-call response expectation is incredible to me since most inquiries at my last job disappeared into a black hole with no response from the PIO.
Thank you! Our communications team does our best to maintain great relationships with journalists. It's a vital part of community connectivity.
I live in NJ today they had a brush fire in Morris County NJ I was listening to it on my scanner and it was the first time I heard them using a helicopter to do a water drop scary times but they contained it nice job by all
WOW that was incredible ! ! How you handle calls is very interesting 👍. that was very informative about the trash truck fire 😮 😳 👍 it was also incredibly interesting about you arriving on scene of the fire first, then for you to be put into service on the call 😮 😎 👍 👍 Thanks for sharing your day ! !
Thanks for watching!
It would be cool to hear your story Eric of how you got to be a PIO sometime
Hello from Tulsa,Oklahoma
You guys have to be the best organized Dept I’ve ever seen . Y’all hiring ? I’ll leave Jersey lol
Thank you! Job openings are posted at this link! recruiting.ultipro.com/SOU1038/JobBoard/40661876-d402-2c23-cfc4-c136679d6bbc/?q=&o=postedDateDesc
what a interesting video
Great video. Would love to know more about your volunteer fire fighting career and to see more of your preserved airport truck
Thank you! I was an Explorer with Castle Rock Fire & Rescue from 1998-2001 and volunteer firefighter with Franktown Fire District from 2001-2006. My vintage airport fire truck "Red Leader 35" was donated to the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver last year so everyone can visit it there!
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO many thanks for the reply and information. Keep up the great work, from across the pond in Ireland
You guys really do expire me because when I get older I wanna be a firefighter what I think I can never make it but you guys help me and I then you guys expire me that I can do it
Weather is now news. Never was before. BUT...The Weather Channel changed all that.
Yes, I am not from the US, and I hope one day my country will have this strcture
19:36 east troublesome was in my county and back yard I was not effected cause it was going to grand lake but my fire department for my town worked till they were good to go for a bit.
I wish the PIO's here would be proactive like South Metro.
I'm revealing my personal social account here now, but I actually do the exact same thing in Finland. We have a bigger fire dept, so I have alot other things to do as well, but basicly the same. It's really inspiring to see this content form another collegue from other side of the world.
Excellent! Thank you for watching!