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Derek Irvine
- 20, Male
- South Australia
- Australia
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Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Balhannah
- I Live: (City, State)
- Balhannah, South Australia
- Years in Fire/EMS:
- 2
- Why I Joined the Fire/EMS:
- To give something to the community (and further out) without anything in return.
Initally to take on a challenge of "something different", now to experience life for what it really is outside of desk jockey jobs.
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- Primary Fire/EMS Department:
- country fire service
- Department Type:
- Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer
- Rank/Role There:
- Firefighter, Hazardous Materials Team Member
- Years With This Department/Agency
- 2
- My Training:
- Level 1 - Basic Firefighting
Plantation Firefighting
CABA/SCBA
Hazmat Combatant
Comparment Firefighting
First Aid & Ambulance/EMT Assist
- About Me:
- Well im Derek, 19, from the Adelaide hill's town of Balhannah, i respond with the Oakbank/Balhannah Country Fire Service. We attend up to 150 calls a year, and our specialist capability is Hazmat. joined them back in January 2007. Its been an interesting ride from being a Probie to now. Yet, its very early days still.
I work for an Accounting firm, doing IT support part time, meanwhile studying computer studies.
I aim to move into fire/rescue for a career someday, just have to wait and see.
- Day Job:
- IT Support Officer - Accounting firm
- Top Issues Facing Responders:
- For Volunteers: Time availabilty to attend Firecalls. A Huge amount of Knowledge to retain, on top of normal life/day job knowledge. Volunteer Retention.
- I Love Being in Fire/EMS Because:
- I/We are there for people, when they are most in need. And no two jobs are the same!
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We just started school again on Tuesday and so far...haven't really done much. I have one more class today then i'm done for the week! woo! I feel like a total slacker this semester thoguh already! Sociology classes are so much easier than bio courses!
Do you have to do any schooling to be an air traffic control guy?
It's been so cold here...it's a little warmer today though. I apparently keep missing memos from one of my depts. I arrived for training at 0900, we usually have training on the 3rd wednesday of every month, offered twice that day. Come to find out (after I got there) that they changed it to Saturdays. So, since I was there, they put me to work helping decon the ambulances because the last crew that was on did a horrible job, after which I did some 12 lead training, so the morning wasn't a total bust.
Haven't had much in the way of interesting calls...a few fender benders, a few water alarms for the fd to respond to busted water pipes, but that's really about it...it's been kind of slow, but we're starting to pick up again with the drunks, so it should get interesting again pretty quick. ;-)
Yeah, total bummer today....I was on my way home from work, normallya 20-30 minute drive from the full-time dept i'm on and it's like -15 F....and the heat in my car doesn't work (it chooses when it wants to work and when it doesn't), so of course, given this situation, I hit a huge patch of ice on an s-curve, and even though i'm going slow...apparently I wasn't going slow enough...I put my car in a ditch and some very deep snow...almost rolled my car, thankfully it ran up against the snowbank before I did. Instead, I ended up at about a 45 degree angle in the snowbank that i can't get out of, in cold weather, with no heat...great, lol. My captain ended up coming out and towing me out...he was thrilled to come out and play in the snow with me and my car, lol. :)
I didn't end up doing anything at work though, we ended up just working on a bunch of projects all day...cleaning, organizing, fixing...playing videogames... you guys have anything?
We got pretty well hammered yesterday for calls...couple car accidents and all...the firefighters were all excited because they got to use the jaws to get one of my patients out. Only problem is that it's so darn cold and nitrile gloves are definitely not good enough for keeping your hands warm! We were just about frozen when we finally got everyone into the rigs. It's supposed to get even colder again tomorrow..so, of course, we're going to probably get some massive accident that requires us to be outside for hours before we can leave...because that's just how events like to roll in this weather, lol. :)
Wow, you've only seen snow 3 times? About 6 months out of the year here we eaither have snow or the weathermen are predicting snow...where else have you seen it besides home?
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