Got my pager...
Well today I went official... I finally got my pager! YES! It has been a long road to getting it but the day is finally here. Its a Motorola Minitor II SV pager. Sure its nothing special but it does what it is made to do, and gives me something to do on those late nights when there is lack of!
*sigh*I will keep you posted about any calls I get with this thing.
Until next time...
Training Burn Day...
Well, we had our training burn today. It wasn't exactly what I expected... Mainly because we just burned a pile of straw and pallets in only one room of the training tower. We got to feel the heat mainly, we didn't even attack the fire, just kinda cooled the air a bit when it got too hot. This was basically to show us some basic fire behavior and for us to feel the heat of the blaze.
Here are the pictures of the day, keep in mind I didn't take the camera into the fire room with me mainly because it was so hot and didn't want anything to happen to it... But regardless, there are some good pictures here. Enjoy.
Final test...
Well tomorrow is the final 'test' (not really a test) for my new department. We are heading to the local public safety training facility, where they have just finished there training burn tower... And we get to LIGHT IT UP! YES!
We are going to be learning to attack fire in a 3 story structure, and do rescues, RIT, and many other things! I cant wait! I will keep you posted.
Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast...
Hey everyone... Just got home from our departments mothers day pancake breakfast. It has been a really long day.
I have been up since 5am, and I just got home! (3pm) I was working the eggs for the majority of the day... From cooks to servers and back... All day. *Sigh*
On a good not, we had approximately 990 people turn out for the breakfast. Almost as many as last year (1003). We had a dunk tank at $1 per ball, and a smoke trailer simulator for teaching the children about fire safety and awareness. Pretty fun, but a very long day. Not to mention it 90 degrees out right now.
Anyway... To all you mothers out there today, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! We love yah!
Finally...
Well, I just got home from my final night of testing with the new department. All is well. I completed everything I hadn't done yet and even finished all of the things I had to do again. So... Now we wait and see what happens next.
Apparently we sit down for a one on one with the captain, and he says ok or no. Basically. Then we get our 'real' helmets and our pagers and are ready to start responding to calls. YES! FINALLY!
I will keep you posted.
Testing day 2...
Well today we had our second set of testing. We went over all of our hose pulls including, cross lays, grabbing hydrants, FDC connections, apartment extensions, just to name a few. I did well on them all, but I need to work on reloading the FDC hose. Other then that everything went well.
On another note, it was freaking hot today! Yikes! Probably the hardest part of the day was just trying to function under the sun. Staying hydrated was hard, since there was so much testing to get through. I felt some sickness after some of the harder tests mainly due to the heat and all the gear we wear. But I stuck it out and made it through.
We should have all of our testing completed on Wednesday, and be ready to start responding to calls! YES!
Good so far...
Tonight we had our first testing session. We tested on ladders, power tools, basic medical, hose clamps, map book, ERG (hasn't book), equipment identification, and SCBA's. Overall I did just fine. I was a little worried about everything but after while everything just kinda fell into place.
I got a 48 seconds on my SCBA (60 max... Not easy to do either), passed ladders no problem, and everything else went fine. The only thing I need to remediate from tonight was in the medical section... I forgot what the flow rates were on the nasal cannula and the non rebreather mask! I cant believe that I forgot probably the easiest thing of the night. Oh well... I will know it by Saturday.
So there it is... Day 1. All I have left is Saturday, and there isn't much left on the check off sheet, so I am almost there. YES!!! Cant wait.
Until next time.
NEW! Becoming a Firefighter Polls...
Today I just started a new feature on my blog... Polls. I will creating polls as much as I can to allow for some more interactivity with my blog. The polls are located as you can see on the right side of the blog on the top. Please participate as best you can.
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