The Brad Gantt Debrief

Director James Gibney joins me in the studio to discuss leadership, attitudes, and goals in EMS. James is the director of a local South Georgia County has spent 18 years in public safety between fire and EMS. He represents what I see as a new and changing attitude in EMS that focuses on accountability, mission success, and self-betterment. He is a very humble individual that has a drive to continu...

Trish Hotz has spent over 46 years being an EMS educator in South Georgia and at 76 she is still teaching. She is legendary for her knowledge, dedication, loyalty, energy, motivation and care for her students. A person who will go above and beyond for her students to make sure they grasp the knowledge, to prepare them for the real world of EMS and be there for years to come should they have an iss...

Especially honored to have Daniel Warren in the studio. He is the Region 8 Regional EMS Director for State of Georgia. Daniel has spent a career in public safety between fire and EMS and now works as a Regional EMS Director. Daniel is extremely smart, well spoken, well liked, and genuinely a superb individual. I am grateful for Daniel joining me in the studio to talk EMS, his career and the journe...

Wesley Wells spent a career at Albany Fire Department before retiring as captain. Wesley is a great leader and teacher who I greatly respect. A man dedicated to doing the right thing, the right way. He held the people around him to a high level of accountability, but none higher than he held to himself. A leader who was never shy to speak out on the issues he saw in order to do the right thing and...

Jim Bloodworth Sr has dedicated 45 years of his life to public safety around this Columbus area. Starting in 1978, until his retirement in 2023, he has done nearly everything one can do from firefighting, ems, flight paramedic, rescue, instructing, training and developing paramedic programs. He is a man with a genuine broad wealth of experience dating back to the infancy of EMS in Georgia. He is t...

Wesley Wells is a retired fire captain and EMT who I greatly respect. He worked over 33 years at Albany Fire Department where he retired at the rank of Captain. He also spent over 10 years at Lee County Public Safety where he served in many roles including 2 years as Public Safety Director. Wesley is a man who was committed to the job and doing the right thing for the right reasons. When I think o...

Ricky Thompson is a person who defines the phrase “quiet professional”. Ricky has spent 20+ years as a firefighter and currently serves as a Battalion Chief at Albany Fire Department. He’s a person who most would consider to be a calm point of reference at a station or department. A very knowledgeable person who always seems to be in good control of himself and the situation he’s facing. No matter...

Steve Ebel is paramedic who has dedicated his life to serving the public he cares for and the students he has taught. Steve started his public safety career in 1985 as a police officer and quickly transitioned into EMS. Steve has nearly 40 years in EMS and over 30 years as an instructor. Steve is deeply loved and greatly respected for dedication to the job, dedication to teaching an unwavering com...

Joined in the studio by Tripp Riddle. Tripp has been a paramedic for 22 years in Georgia. He worked on the ground for many years but also spent many years working as a flight paramedic. Currently he is the director of a local county based EMS service and has advance his department greatly by incorporating body camera for his crews and increasing the available units for the citizens he serves. Trip...

Bryan Barnes is a 23+ year paramedic who has worked on the ground, in flight, as an instructor and currently as an Assistant Director for a local service. Bryan is highly regarded for his clinical skills, positive outlook, incredible teaching ability/passion, and most of all his patient advocacy. I’m very honored to have him come sit down with me to talk about his life, career, his outlook and man...

I’m honored enough to have Paramedic Pete Radano join me to share a little bit about himself and his career in EMS. Pete spent his entire career working for Dougherty County EMS here in Georgia and is a person who truly dedicated his life to EMS. Pete is a person who is beyond well respected not just for his service in EMS, but for the person as a whole he is even when he’s not working on the truc...

Today I sit down with long time friend, Mr. Larry Morrell. He's been an EMT for 13 years and served this community diligently. It would be hard to find somebody with a bigger heart than him and anybody more loyal. Larry is born and raised here in south Georgia and wears many hats. Besides being an EMT-A, Larry is an amateur meteorologist who you can catch on live streams out storm chasing and givi...

Quick introduction: My name is Brad Gantt and I’ve been working in public safety for 20yrs between fire and EMS. Currently I work full time as flight paramedic and have so for the past few years. There’s alot of people I’ve met along the way that I think have an interesting story to tell and one that needs to be heard. Hope you get something out of the conversations I have with the people that fol...