Welcome to the latest installment of The Kitchen Table podcast's 'Self-Help Series'. In this episode Justin White is joined by Lieutenant Kent Smith who talks about his journey through addiction to recovery. Kent’s story is raw and full of emotion as he recounts the toll addiction took not only on his life, but his family members as well.

So come join us at the Kitchen Table as we continue to destigmatize those things that challenge us in life while letting people know that help is there if they need it.

This conversation at the Kitchen Table – Quick Hit discusses the search size up. The last QH we discussed the overall size up from a command perspective and now we will start to narrow our focus to some of the tasks we perform on the fire ground starting with arguably the most important task we perform, search. Justin White is joined by Lieutenant Josh Talbot and Driver Kevin Farraher to provide insight on the thought process surrounding the search size up and how it should be performed.

So come join us at the Kitchen Table. Sit down, enjoy, and be ready to learn a little bit about Search Size Ups.

The NIOSH multi-year firefighter cancer study identified that fire fighters have a 9% greater chance of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14% greater chance of dying from cancer than the general U.S. population.

At the 2022 IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial, almost 75% of the names added to the wall (348 out of 469) were members who had died from occupational cancer. Overall, the IAFF reports that cancer caused 66 percent of the career firefighter line-of-duty deaths from 2002 to 2019.

If these statistics don’t get your attention…they should.

This episode Justin White sits down with retired Driver Engineer Dan Knox as he humbly describes his journey with cancer from diagnosis to treatment to recovery to retirement. Driver Engineer Knox also discusses how his actions (or inaction) may have contributed to his diagnosis and what you should do to decrease your risk of being diagnosed as well.

So come and join Justin, Chris Weaver, Grant Tinker and the 14th nicest guy on the job Dan Knox for a deep and honest discussion of his relationship with cancer at the Kitchen Table. As always, sit down, enjoy, and be ready to learn about cancer, how it could impact your life, and more importantly what you can do about it.

All the resources discussed in this episode can be found attached to the activity in Target Solutions.