- 342
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 49
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Smart Firefighting
Smart Firefighting Podcast covers real-world deployments of smart technologies through conversations with technologists, innovators, companies, and forward-thinking public safety and government agencies. Learn from interviews with leaders as they share their insights and offer their expertise every week! Host Kevin Sofen is a co-founding member of the Smart First Responder Community who loves to explore change management and technology in public safety.
- Publisher
- Smart Firefighting
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Nov 2017
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 342 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 335: The Proactive Crisis Manager: How Berlin Fire Plans With Data | Frank Pohland at Interschutz 2026
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 334: FLIR Sells Time: Thermal Imaging, Speed, and the Next Five Years with Peter Dekkers of FLIR
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 333: A Digital Sand Table for Wildland Fire with Jackson Yip of Paladin Industries
Inside a recent episode
Episode 335: The Proactive Crisis Manager: How Berlin Fire Plans With Data | Frank Pohland at Interschutz 2026
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So we have different angles to approach these issues. And this is like the main idea of the strategy. What was the biggest mindset shift going from reactive to proactive? Limited resources. So we cannot just respond and only react to scenarios that happen. We need to kind of look into the future and see what might happen. And especially every big fighting partner will tell you the same story. We cannot grow necessarily as fast as we should with a growing city and older citizens. So we need to find a way. to be more efficient with what we have, because Berlin is an old, densely built city, there's not much space for us to build new fire stations, or even the fire stations that exist staffed them with more engines and stuff, so this is limited, and the best chance was to be more efficient. […]
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- Frank Pohland
- Peter Dekkers
- Jackson Yip
- Egi Cuijten
- Jared Doke
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 20 ratings
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