You’re the new company officer, battalion chief, or chief of department. You arrive at the new place and soon realize that it’s a mess. Personnel issues, apparatus and firehouse issues, morale is in the basement—and those are just for starters. It’s a free-for-all. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Where do you start? The television show “Flip This House” follows real estate investors who buy, refurbish, and resell properties for a profit. Often, they are met with the unforeseen challenges and problems that can come with refurbishing a house. This program “Flip This Firehouse” doesn’t involve the refurbishing of a firehouse but rather works toward guiding the new company officer, battalion chief, and chief of department through the process of rebuilding a culture of service, duty, commitment, and honor—the very tenets of the fire service.
