{"id":213872,"date":"2026-05-14T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:55:09","slug":"problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem-solvers by nature: How Virginia Beach Fire put AI to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/artificial-intelligence\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work\">Problem-solvers by nature: How Virginia Beach Fire put AI to work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/artificial-intelligence\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work\">https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/artificial-intelligence\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 11:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.firerescue1.com\">www.firerescue1.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article discusses the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the Virginia Beach Fire Department (VBFD).<\/li>\n<li>The adoption of AI began organically as firefighters experimented with it in their personal time and gradually extended to job-related uses, solving various administrative issues.<\/li>\n<li>VBFD leadership evaluates technologies based on their effectiveness in improving department operations. They have clear directives to seek out such tools.<\/li>\n<li>AI is being used significantly across the department, including drafting correspondence, scheduling training, creating professional documentation, and facilitating data analysis and cost modeling which significantly enhances efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>To address resistance, the authors emphasize the importance of maintaining human oversight and ensuring proper training to use AI responsibly.<\/li>\n<li>They recommend other departments to integrate AI gradually, keeping humans in control while allowing AI to assist in solving time-consuming issues.<\/li>\n<li>The authors highlight that AI does not displace the essential human leadership and review processes but rather frees up time for more critical tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem-solvers by nature: How Virginia Beach Fire put AI to work https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/artificial-intelligence\/problem-solvers-by-nature-how-virginia-beach-fire-put-ai-to-work Publish Date: 2026-05-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lexipol.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d29e1c6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1152+0+107\/resize\/1440x810!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk1-prod-lexipol.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F10%2Ff6%2F475eafa84315966be374772cd389%2F541498082-1118533823710121-1821672767881620412-n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213876,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213872\/revisions\/213876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}