With Aaron McGurk - Secur Fire Ottawa / Ontario Code updates with Aaron Lee

Let's hear from someone who is new to our industry, but not new to the workforce... Aaron brings a different perspective that may help some of our techs with their own struggles to navigate a 'job' vs a 'career'. We also have Aaron Lee talking about the code updates for Ontario.

Ep 35 - A 'Junior' Technician's Perspective

With Rick Cheung (Vancouver Fire Dept.) / Aaron Lee (Codes Corner)

This week, we have a great episode with some good education on what are 2 stage systems, when are they used, and how they differ from other multi-stage systems or single stage systems. Thanks to Rick CHeung from the Vancouver Fire Department for coming on the podcast! Please refer to this guide from the City of Vancouver for their interpretation of this code. https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vancouver-fire-bulletin-2024-001-2-stage-fire-alarms.pdf We also had Aaron Lee on the podcast from the Codes and Standards Committee to discuss the code changes for the provinces of New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ep 34 - 2 Stage Fire Alarm Systems / Code Changes for Atlantic Canada

Mike Ellis - Volt Verify

Mike Ellis is the Above and Beyond AWard winner for Alberta for 2024. Listen to Mike's story and hear about his venture in safer battery testing with Volt Verify. www.voltverify.ca

Ep 33 - Above And Beyond Awards

With Aaron Lee

EP 32 - Codes And Standards Committee

With Justin Mansbridge (Rocky View County Fire) and Tyler Grant (City Of Calgary Fire)

Have you ever had the chance to really listen and get to know what the fire safety officers do in your town? Today we have a discussion with two members of the fire service in the Calgary area. Comments? Email us at marketing@cfaa.ca

Ep 31 - The AHJ's Perspective - A discussion with Fire Safety Inspectors

Jaafar Kobaa and Co-Hosted by Raphael Villeneuve

This week we bring the Quebec chapter of the CFAA (the ACAI in French) to the podcast to introduce us to their 2024 winner of the Above and Beyond Award! The first part is in French and then I offer a summary translation at the end for those who didn't -quite- catch it all! Thanks to Raphael for taking the reigns and leading the interview in my SECOND language!

Ep 30 - Above And Beyond Award winner - with our Quebec chapter winner (in French)

With Suzanne Alfano and Steve Ames

This week, we talk to Suzanne Alfano (Executive Director of the CFAA) Stephen Ames (past President and currently working on the ISO certification project for the CFAA) about the contemplated certification to ISO standard 17024. We discuss the process and where we are so far in this journey.

Ep 29 - ISO 17024 Certification for Technicians?

With Tony Hodder, Victoria Boltsis and Alex Shamshur

Welcome to 2025! Here is our first episode of the year and we continue with interviews with the Above and Beyond Award Winners. Tony Hodder, Victoria Boltsis and Aliaksandr Shamshur share some of their experiences in fire alarm and why they think they were awarded this prize.

Ep 28 - Above And Beyond Awards Pt 2

WIth Suzanne Alfano, Jordan Klemick, Catherine Aastrom and Mark Wilson

On this Year-End episode, I have asked a few of my past guests and also Suzanne Alfano, Executive Director fo the CFAA and Jordan Klemick, Current President of the CFAA, to give us some year end summary of what we are doing at the executive committee level and what we have planned in 2025. I was also able to bring on Cathy and Mark, who have been on the podcast in the past and have rolls within chapters of the CFAA. I wish you all a Happy New Year and we will see you on the road somewhere in Canada or you wil continue to hear us on the podcast. Thanks for listening this year and for continunin to spread the word on the podcast to all of your fellow fire alarm technicians, engineers, managers and AHJ's. See you in 2025 with season 2 of the CFAA Fire Alarm Technician's Podcast!

Ep 27 - End Of Year Roundup 

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