title: Firefighter Preplan: The Ultimate Guidebook for Thriving as a Firefighter
author: David J Soler
description: David J. Soler has been called to enrich lives and catalyze success. He is a Christian, firefighter, author, podcaster, sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and the founder/publisher of Firefighter Toolbox, which is on a mission to build better firefighters and leaders in the fire service. He is the host of iTunes top-rated firefighter training podcast called Firefighter Toolbox Podcast. (He has interviewed legends of the fire service like: Chief Brunacini, FDIC Chief Halton, Chief Rubin, NFA Administrator Dr. Oneial, Army Chief of Fire Training Robert Simmons, Deputy Chief and Author Frank Viscuso and so many more.) In his fire service role, David is known for three things: being a student of great firefighting, training and encouraging up-and-coming firefighters and officers, and sharing firefighter and life success principles. With over 20 years in the fire service, he is a nationally certified fire instructor III, fire officer II, rescue technician, and HAZMAT technician with experience in both urban and rural fire services. He has served in multiple states as both a career and volunteer firefighter. As a captain, he has led company turnarounds in taking low-responding, low-motivated fire companies and turning them into highly-motivated, top-responding fire companies. David Soler is a second-generation firefighter and has been a firefighter in several states, including New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. He is an Eagle Scout and has a bachelors in management and technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY). He is married and has two daughters. To learn more about David or becoming a better firefighter and leader, goto FirefighterToolbox.com.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Dedication
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  About the Author
  
  Out of the Cage: Sometimes love needs a little coaxing to grow.
   
   
  Stake Dolan has worked as a firefighter for almost a decade. He knows he’s loud, brash, and
  occasionally abrasive, not that he tries to be. Sometimes, he just blurts stuff out without thinking. His
  thoughtless words get him in trouble, and the chief orders him to help with the clean-up of some of the
  local hiking trailheads. At one of them, Dolan meets Cecil Rochette. The friendly man makes a pass at
  him, but Dolan quickly shuts him down. A few of his fellow firefighters are gay, but he is not. Still,
  while he doesn’t know why, there’s something about the guy that arouses him. When Cecil keeps
  popping up in his path, interrupting his life, he begins to wonder what it’d be like to give in to the
  mischievous man’s adva