26 Sep 2026
Recognition-primed decisions, and where the reps come from
The best research on how fire officers actually decide was done on fire officers. It says the skill is pattern matching, and pattern matching needs patterns.
A small Connecticut company that builds training for the fire service. Its training apps run under the name Fireground.Training.
Fireground command, flow path, rope rescue systems, AHD rigging, company playbooks. Built for the classroom half of the drill: on the TV in class, then in the crew's hands on their phones.
Live now: Cognition v4.41 · Flow Path v0.69 · AHD v1.02 · Rope v0.98 — updated 15 Oct 2026
Go to the apps Get it for your departmentA licensed build runs on your department's own material — your SOPs, apparatus, gear and streets — for everybody who rides, on the TV in class and on their phones after.
Get it for your departmentThe station gym inspected the way you inspect a rig — five equipment checklists that turn a walkthrough into a report.
See the inspection serviceThese get built between shifts and tested on my own crew, and they get better every time someone who does the job sends a note — the feedback form or info@fireground.training. More about who builds this.
26 Sep 2026
The best research on how fire officers actually decide was done on fire officers. It says the skill is pattern matching, and pattern matching needs patterns.
4 Sep 2026
Ceremony has its place. So does a pressed uniform. Neither one is the point.