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Just get a Garrity disposable LED and a big rubberband. As for the chest lights or big ones on straps, if your FD doesn't have them for you to use and you're going to buy one, just donate it to have it mounted with the charger in the rig or something.
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Got to put out my first fire in anger today. And learned Port-a-Johns BURN like you wouldn't believe. We literally arrived to find nothing but a pile of burning offal, and a puddle of melted plastic re-solidified halfway down a small incline. Making poo poo related puns for the rest of the week now.
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The practical is way easier than everyone made it out to be.
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Cage Kicker posted:The practical is way easier than everyone made it out to be. Yeah, it really isn't that bad. How many practical stations did you have? We had 10 for FFI and 2 for FFII What all did you have to do?
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invision posted:I would totally drive the gently caress out of that.
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Marx posted:I would totally drive the gently caress out of that. It ran and was driveable. Then we rolled the dash and broke the steering column. We realized how big of a mistake that was immediately after it happened.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-RNNNyqgc
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invision posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS-RNNNyqgc Busy week or something? Also, disturbing lack of "current POV setup".
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Cage Kicker posted:Busy week or something? Also, disturbing lack of "current POV setup". This weekend has been horrible. 1k+ acre fire on saturday, seperate 1k+ acre fire today. We have a 4 lane highway thats seperated by a median that is about 15 feet wide. The treeline on either side of the road is a good 8 to 10 feet away from the road. We were in the median trying to put out a spot when it loving ROLLED OVER THE TOP TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GODDAMN ROAD. I've never seen so many grown men freak out so bad in my life.   I'm literally behind the big rear end wall of flames in the second picture. The news clip gives a better idea of how intense this thing was. http://www.12newsnow.com/category/177961/video?clipId=5923948&autostart=true and here are a bunch of youtube videos I found from one of those "stop on the road and film poo poo" people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA2RYKGdZOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBlEDM9DqEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Qg3R6aioQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA2RYKGdZOE invision fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jun 6, 2011 |
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Another 1k+ acre fire today, with a different 100 acre fire and then someone tried to set fire to the side of the road. Someone needs their rear end kicked.
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People already shooting fireworks, and it's not even dark yet.
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Give it a little time and you'll have some grass fires.
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 'A firecracker went off near my precious angel and he's crying now please help.' No sign of injury, no deficits - you sure you want us to take your kid to the hospital? If he's still fussy you can always hit up a walk-in in the morning. 'WHAT DO I PAY TAXES FOR ARRRRRG!' 1 hour later Doctor: Your kid is fine, enjoy your huge ER bill 'Better safe than sorry TEE-HEE.'
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gently caress those people. They pay taxes so they can unreasonably tie up emergency services and lower the service other people receive at that time? It makes me sick.
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Just letting invision or any other TX FF goons know that Plano FD is testing in september. Only catch is none of you fuckers can score higher than me. 
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Crazy Dutchman posted:Just letting invision or any other TX FF goons know that Plano FD is testing in september. Thanks for the heads up. It's not on the TCFP jobs site for some reason. e:south padre is also hiring. What a sweet job that would be. invision fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jul 16, 2011 |
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FDNY is having a firefighter test again. Anybody can sign up by September 15th. Unfortunately if you aren't a veteran, able to claim city residency credit, or someone in EMS going the promotional route (like me) you are probably screwed.
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Kashew posted:gently caress those people. They pay taxes so they can unreasonably tie up emergency services and lower the service other people receive at that time? It makes me sick. Even better is when they use the tax complaint when you work for a private company. "I pay my taxes!" "And I thank you for that, citizen, but your taxes don't pay my bills." Or the indigent folks in government housing, on food stamps and Medicaid at 30 years old, dressed fly as hell and telling me I have to take them to a hospital 20 minutes away, as opposed to the local city hospital 3 minutes out, because they're "paying for this ride." I was a bit more burnt at the time, and actually replied to that guy by as follows: "Sir, do you have Medicaid?" "Yeah, I do." "Then I'm paying for this ride, and we'll go where I want." To the city hospital it was. Additionally: Who's going to the Baltimore Expo this year? Anybody?
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Anyone going to A&M this month?
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First on scene to a fire today, tried the door, then kicked it open. Lady standing in the doorway goes WELL I WAS COMING TO THE DOOR YOU DIDNT HAVE TO KICK IT OPEN. UGH. sorry lady 
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senor punk posted:FDNY is having a firefighter test again. Anybody can sign up by September 15th. Unfortunately if you aren't a veteran, able to claim city residency credit, or someone in EMS going the promotional route (like me) you are probably screwed. GOOD LUCK! Also, faux pas on the job are so lame.
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invision posted:First on scene to a fire today, tried the door, then kicked it open. Lady standing in the doorway goes WELL I WAS COMING TO THE DOOR YOU DIDNT HAVE TO KICK IT OPEN. UGH. Well was there actually a fire in there?
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Cage Kicker posted:Well was there actually a fire in there? Yep.
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Update from a&m annual fire school and firetruck expo extravaganza 2011: fire truck with a boat and coffee maker.
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invision posted:Update from a&m annual fire school and firetruck expo extravaganza 2011: fire truck with a boat and coffee maker. It makes both boats and coffee? Impressive
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Also hurst has battery powered jaws. Theyre awesome.
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invision posted:Also hurst has battery powered jaws. Theyre awesome. Well how else is the animatronic doll of Jaws powered if not by battery?  How many people here have officer-side speedometers in their rigs?
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invision posted:Update from a&m annual fire school and firetruck expo extravaganza 2011: fire truck with a boat and coffee maker. I went to A&M a couple of years back when I was a jolly volly. It is a good school, but it is redneck central, and I'm from east Texas. Lots of drunken volunteers with $2000 worth of lights on their personal vehicle and carrying their pager around even though they are 200 miles from home. What class are you taking?
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Awww yeah! Got my Basic Vehicle Rescue scores back - and got my first actually useful certification in something! Plus it came with a couple of patches that - being a probie - I don't have a class A uniform to sew them onto yet.
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You get patches for vehicle rescue? We don't even have certs for that, its just part of basic certification.
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Pennsylvania will give certs / patches for just about anything. Heck, we get a Cert every time we clear one section of the Fire Fighter I Certification. That's right, a certification for each section that adds up to another certification.
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I am going through the process right now, got a 95/100 on my written test and aced the physical practice run-through. My actual PT is in about two weeks. After that I expect to be put in the queue for anywhere from a couple months to a couple years. Looking forward to it. Duh, meant to ask this. I'm considering joining the National Guard to be EXTRA MANLY -- are fire shifts generally flexible for ONE WEEKENED A MONTH TWO WEEKS A YEAR guard duty? Bigass Moth fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jul 29, 2011 |
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Bigass Moth posted:Duh, meant to ask this. I'm considering joining the National Guard to be EXTRA MANLY -- are fire shifts generally flexible for ONE WEEKENED A MONTH TWO WEEKS A YEAR guard duty? It depends on where you go, just like any job I guess. I mean, technically they're obligated to be flexible though of course they have ways of circumventing that if they want to give you a hard time. I'd say a solid tenth of my department is either National Guard or Reservist and we haven't had any issues to date. So, yeah, your mileage may vary.
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Are the guys who fly the planes and helicopters that drop stuff members of the Department or do most places contract that out?
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:Are the guys who fly the planes and helicopters that drop stuff members of the Department or do most places contract that out? Forest service contracts out almost all of the air support, but will sometimes use national guard, in my experience.
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WELL HERES SOME PICS Compartment Boat (Also has a compartment mounted coffee maker and fridge.)  Battery powered Hurst Spreaders. These things are awesome. They're actually faster than the TnT tools we use.  Here's some poo poo that caught on fire or whatever 
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Bigass Moth posted:I am going through the process right now, got a 95/100 on my written test and aced the physical practice run-through. My actual PT is in about two weeks. After that I expect to be put in the queue for anywhere from a couple months to a couple years. Looking forward to it. I know my friend in the Marines wasn't allowed to do anything firematic when he was home, because technically he's government property and if anything happened to him the FD would be liable. He also couldn't get the permission of his CO. He was active duty, so it may be different.
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I'm sure that was because he was still considered active duty. As far as the original question goes: Generally it's always seemed like fire departments are ultra cool with people who serve, and work with ya. Plus the 24 on 48/72 off is a pretty flexible schedule anyways.
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