The DigiFire Project

Putting the focus on modern leadership, technology, toolbox integration, and workflow for incident command and the fire service.

The DigiFire Project

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow

"I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling." - Edward F. Croker

"Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm" - Emerson

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential." - Steve Ballmer

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - IBM chairman, Thomas Watson, 1943

"You can't put a value on safety but you can sure put a price on the consequences. Safety must be an organizational value in every fire organization" - Clinton Smoke

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." - Steve Jobs

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users." - Lori Valigra

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow." - Edward Teller