Jason Fouks
Jason Fouks is an EMT and part of the family behind Born Force Training. He wrote this book because he kept running into the same thing: a career full of calls that mattered, and not one good place to put any of them.
The prompts in here aren’t invented. They’re the questions crews ask each other at three in the morning when the coffee’s burnt and nobody feels like sleeping — the first arrest, the first one you got back, the dog that was definitely not friendly, the meal you never got to finish.
He lives with his wife Tiff and their kids — Robbie, Bryce, Merrick and Mackenzie — the ones who got the short end of every call, and the reason he came home from all of them.
At Born Force Training we believe everyone can be a hero in an emergency. We teach CPR, AED use and first aid to people who never planned on needing it — right up until the day they did.
This book is published under Born Force Press, our imprint. It’s the first in a series — a firefighter edition and a dispatcher edition are on the way.
A portion of every copy sold funds AED grants and CPR training for communities through Bond's Path. Somebody's first arrest is somebody else's worst day — this puts a machine on the wall before the tones ever drop.
The horse behind
the name
We’re named for Born Force — a retired, blind racehorse who kept going anyway. He didn’t need to see the track to know the job. Neither do you, most nights.
He’s honored at the end of the book, not the beginning, because that felt more like him.
