Blue Collar FOOLS

08/14/2025

Awesome class coming up. This is a great opportunity to get a ton of reps in real world situations!

06/25/2025

📣Registration is now open for the class featuring key speakers Steve Robertson, Jerry Herbst, and Clyde Gordon.

Here's what you need to know:
•Location | The Local in Cullman, Alabama
•Date and Time | August 4th, 2025, 8:00-5:00
•Cost | Free for FOOLS members; $25 for nonmembers

❗️Sign up today❗️

Event Timing: August 4th 2025 8:00-5:00 Event Location and Address: The Local 202 Elizabeth St NE Cullman, AL 35055 Contact Us At: (205-515-1491) or [email protected]

06/05/2025

🔥CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT🔥
August 4th 2025

🔥Lt. Steve Robertson- Stretching for Success.🔥
The Engine Companies Guide to Winning…Stretching for
Success. What puts out fires? It's still water. This class is about engine company priorities and tactics. Topics covered are selecting and placing the first handline in service properly (a priority); apparatus placement, line selection, matching the proper nozzle to the proper line, and line placement. Overcoming difficult stretches, vertical stretches, and short- staffed stretching are also covered. In this ever-evolving modern fire environment, special emphasis must be on selecting and placing the first line correctly. We must put ourselves in a position to stretch for success!

🔥Jerry Herbst- Brass Tacks and Hard-ER Facts: Behind and Beyond the Series🔥
🔥This 2 hour course will take you behind the scenes of the making of the Brass Tacks & Hard Facts engine company training video series and beyond the facts presented. It will be a deep dive in to the gamut that is the engine company discipline, specifically, heightening awareness to the various types of equipment that create fire streams and developing a basic understanding of the different types of nozzles in use today.

🔥Retired District Chief Clyde Gordon- Danny's Story🔥
🔥Danny’s Story presents real-life experiences and leadership mistakes that lead to a Line of Duty Death (LODD). As a young officer, I was confronted many times with employee issues; however, only one still impacts me today. Common everyday circumstances and my unwillingness to confront unpreparedness (his years in the fire service, knowing and having great respect for his father, also a firefighter within the department, etc.), my lack of experience as a leader, coupled with a mindset of “he’s transferring somewhere slow anyway” and “someone else can train him again” led to an unfortunate situation where a life was lost because of being unprepared for the fire ground.

🚨Location and sign-up link will be posted next week

05/22/2025

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT COMING

We have 3 of the biggest names in the fire service coming august 4th for a class that will be very affordable. Stay tuned for details…

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03/15/2025

$100 dollars for a shot to win this truck, support a great foundation, and a brother in need.

03/10/2025

Great weekend of training by National Firefighters Training Foundation. The FOOLS love an opportunity to get better.

02/07/2025

Congratulations to one of our founding members Joshua Clemons on becoming a Georgia Smoke Diver!

01/31/2025

Congratulations to two of our members on becoming Smoke Divers today. These guys busted their tails to get to this point, and are great examples of what it means to be a FOOL.

01/01/2025

CLOSED. THANK YALL. LIVE FACEBOOK DRAWING TOMORROW

Raffle to help family of Birmingham Firefighter whose house burned down New Year’s Eve.

12 Winners. First place picks prize and then on down the line. Spots are 50 bucks.

We have a good mix of tools, local to central Alabama classes and national classes. Something for everyone.

Prizes:
- Set of Council Tool Irons
- 6’ Lockwood Hook
- Pair of MK-1 Ultras OR Squad 1 gloves from ReddPSE
- 1 year free membership to Blue Collar FOOLS
- 1 pass to any 2025 Blue Collar FOOLS class
- 1 pass to any 2025 Blue Collar FOOLS class
- Blue Collar FOOLS T-shirt
- Council Halligan with Citizens First Swag pack
- Fire Maul Mauler with Citizens First Swag Pack
- Fire Maul Reaper with Citizens First Swag Pack
- Two passes to a Citizens First Extrication class - 40 hour Pro Board Tech class for passenger and heavy vehicle (Take a friend)
- Buddy passes (take a friend with you) to 2025 Firemanship Conference lectures
- Fire Salts Hydration packets from Cahaba Fire Company
- Lower Alabama Fire Tactics Swag pack
Venmo:
PayPal: PayPal.me/claymagee
Cash App: $claymagee

Comment the spot you want then send your money once you see your name next to it. If the spot has been taken, I’ll give you a random slot.
1 Jenny Smiley
2 Harrison Wood
3 Adam Hicks
4 Caleb Higey
5 Clayton Aldridge
6 Kaleb Simpson
7 Jared Terry
8 Matt McCullough
9 James Hill
10 Sarah Johnson
11 Scott Forst
12 - Zach Darby
13 Heath Parker
14 Garth Jones
15 Garth Jones
16 Eric Gillotti
17 Andrew Mangeot
18 Cynthia Letchman
19 Brandon Lewis
20 Hunter Songer
21 Wesley Smith
22 Brian Bonner
23 Tommy Greer
24 Wesley Tidwell
25 Jenny Smiley
26 Wesley Smith
27 Michael Jarratt
28 Cynthia Letchman
29 Scott Forst
30 Jon McCoy
31 Matt Wade
32 Jacob Mikell
33 Bryan Lafleur
34 Jared Terry
35 Jamie Dover
36 Jim Ed Mills
37 Michael Lewis
38 Andrew Murtagh
39 Dusty Richards
40 Zac Williams
41 Heath Parker
42 Chris Groban
43 Jay Alderton
44 Brett Ashworth
45 Ryan King
46 Elliott Eccleston
47 Ryan King
48 Roger Cofer
49 Justin Spears
50 DM Fishel
51 Jordan Randall
52 Joe Massey
53 Nick Kent
54 James Michael Gay
55 Mat Burkett
56 Jacob Osterhues
57 Eric Velez Ruiz
58 Michael Jarraett
59 BFRS 2B
60 Ed Lindsey
61 Ed Lindsey
62 Ed Lindsey
63 Ed Lindsey
64 Brent Bishop
65 Brent Bishop
66 Wesley Tidwell
67 Zach Welton
68 Joseph Patton
69 Trevor Barber
70 Michael Lewis
71 BFRS 2B
72 Daniel Owings
73 Matt McCracken
74 Christian Graham
75 Jon McCoy
76 Matt McCracken
77 Sarah Johnson
78 Jordan Jones
79 Kevin Murray
80 Mat Burkett
81 James Michael Gay
82 Brent Walker
83 Jordan Jones
84 Matthew Mayfield
85 Matthew Mayfield
86 Matthew Mayfield
87 Eric Gillotti
88 Kurtis Trumbauer
89 Dalton Teal
90 Jordan Randall
91 Dalton Teal
92 Harrison Wood
93 Jake Jones
94 Joe Massey
95 Tommy Carter
96 Trevor Barber
97 Drew McNeese
98 Chris Salvail
99 Austin Parmer
100 Kaleb Simpson
101 Gene Coleman

12/02/2024

Registration is now open to the best HOT class there is!!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN‼️

South Alabama Firefighter H.O.T. Weekend
March 8 & 9, 2025
Fairhope, Alabama

Instructors include:
🔹Jim McCormack (FDTN)
🔹Bob Pressler (FDNY)
🔹Todd Edwards (Atlanta, GA)
🔹Anthony Rowett (Mobile, AL)
🔹Mickey Farrell (FDNY)
🔹Brandon Lewis (Atlanta, GA)
🔹Brandon Strickland (Decatur, AL)
🔹Joseph Petties (Mobile, AL)
🔹Rico Bush (Mobile, AL)
🔹Tim Nagim (Escambia County, FL)
🔹Jeremy Donch (National Fire Radio)
🔹Jerry Herbst (Elkhart Brass)

We will also have a social event on Friday Night (March 7) that will include a lecture presentation by Jeremy Donch.

Register at www.alabamafirefighterstrainingfoundation.com

11/22/2024

Congratulations to one of our founding members, and the newest Alabama Smoke Diver Joshua Clemons. Awesome job brother.

10/29/2024

Great class coming up in December!