iBook Rube’s Rules For Leadership Now Available

We are pleased to announce, that our first of many iBooks has been publish on iTunes. Rube’s Rules For Leadership

Chief Brunacini's Birthday Party

Great day. Over one hundred folks celebrated Chief Brunacini's 75th Birthday in Phoenix, AZ Super turnout. Plan on being here next year.

Some of Current Training Programs Offered By D. L. Rubin & Associates

Course Title: DC Fire: Leadership & Accountability Issues

Course Length: Half of day session (3 to 4 hours)

Course Description:  All agencies have their trials and tribulations that have to be dealt with on a day to day bases.  Chief Dennis Rubin will be sharing some insight of the inter-workings of one of America's largest Fire & EMS Departments.   Rubin will discuss various case studies that he and his senior staff faced during the four years of Mayor Adrian Fenty's Administration.  Chief Rubin will describe how these issues were resolved and what the outcome was of the solutions that were selected and actually implemented.  This program is based on a textbook that Chief Rubin will be releasing in late 2012 or early 2013, the working title of the new book is “DC FIre: Its Not Just A Job”.

DC Leadership & Accountability Issues Objectives: 

1. The participants shall be able to identify and discuss at least two of the principals that were used to solve organization problems that will be presented in this program. 

2. The participants shall be able explain why public trust and governing body support is critically important to their agency, and how these elements can be applied in their own community.

3. The participants shall be able to compare and contrast  positive inter-governmental relationships at the local, state and national levels.

4.  The participants shall be able to list and explain at least five of the seventeen principals that should be applied when applying leadership and accountability to any organization. 

Handling Gas Leak Emergencies: An Update

On December 27, 1983, our Nation suffered a tremendous tragic loss when five Buffalo Fire Fighters were killed in the line of duty.  These brave men answered their final alarm at the Chimera Radiator Company located at North Division and Grosvenor Streets.  The cause of this disaster was an illegally stored propane cylinder inside of the building that would leak that day and become the fuel source for a major explosion.  Shortly after the devastating explosion, Firehouse Magazine dispatched Harvey Eisner (assistant editor at the time of the event) to cover this very sad, but important story.  Shortly after Eisner’s return from Buffalo, he called me with a request to prepare an article to provide guidance to fire fighters that would aid their response to gas leak situations.  It was a personal honor then to share this information and it is an equal honor to prepare this updated version now.  This paper is dedicated to those incredibly brave Buffalo Fire Fighters that gave the ultimate sacrifice to their community that day because of an illegally stored and used LPG cylinder.  To those members and all of our brothers and sisters whom have lost their lives in the line of duty protecting their communities may God’s perpetual light shine upon them all.