... educational programs or dealing with budgetary concerns. According to Dennis Compton, the Chairman of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the former Chief of the Mesa fire department, "In top organizations, fire department management feel it is their job to mentor others, and they do it personally instead of delegating the task to consultants or professors". (Sendelbach, 2011) The ... Exceptional officers know how to paint the big picture, and take it down to the individual level so the firefighters can see how they accomplish the overall fire departmental mission. Fire depar...

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