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Nevada Senator Objects to FEMA Training Planned for Las Vegas

Restaurant, bar and casino operators most likely. Hey, who can blame the Sen., I'm sure he wants to get re-elected and doesn't want to piss off the big-money backers. It's all about the politics. C...

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Getting Back to Basics: Nozzles & Hose Streams

We also call them stingers, used for defensive operations, surround and drown. Great for getting a lot of water quickly into a building, easily makes the second floor and roof of a SFD and for comm...

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Getting Back to Basics: Nozzles & Hose Streams

Piercing nozzle, can be driven through walls, floors, roof, vehicle hood/roof/trunk/door, even concrete block walls. Haven't used one, we do have one and I'd keep it mind for those nasty basement f...

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SAFE-ISH

John C. To your point(s), can we be too safe? Is safe enough, enough? I understand as well the inherent hazards of the job. No job, or activity is ever truly 'safe' but I don't advocate a surround...

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Restaurant, bar and casino operators most likely. Hey, who can blame the Sen., I'm sure he wants to get re-elected and doesn't want to piss off the big-money backers. It's all about the politics. Contributions.....preparing for an emergency, contr...
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That is what I was talking about being "safe-ish".
23 hours ago
We also call them stingers, used for defensive operations, surround and drown. Great for getting a lot of water quickly into a building, easily makes the second floor and roof of a SFD and for commercialstrip mall operations. The have removable ti...
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Piercing nozzle, can be driven through walls, floors, roof, vehicle hood/roof/trunk/door, even concrete block walls. Haven't used one, we do have one and I'd keep it mind for those nasty basement fires.
yesterday
Absoultey. I didn't mean safe-ish is better than no safe-ish myself, just how I figure other departments see it. I'm all about being safe-est; unfortunately in our line of work, this will be a never ending topic.
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John C. To your point(s), can we be too safe? Is safe enough, enough? I understand as well the inherent hazards of the job. No job, or activity is ever truly 'safe' but I don't advocate a surround-and-drown mentality as a rule of thumb. So as we ...
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Jack, I do the point that this is a tongue in cheek attitude, but I wanted to comment on the first questions from a more serious standpoint. I left out commenting on the "safe-ish" all together because I highly doubt anyone would want to say they...
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"ain't no need to dig no grave til the body's cold."
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"...departments in general are as safe as they get away with,..." Exactly!
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Jeff, safe-ish is better than no safe-ish? Really? Safe-ish falls so far down the spectrum of safeosity that it barely registers, so much (so less?) so that being safe-ish is probably worse off then being unsafe. At least being knowingly unsafe yo...
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as they are flip flops and inherently 'toe-less' I assume you what you meant was the (a) steel-toed "toe-thong."
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John C. You left out "...or only safe-ish (meet hardly any or only a few NFPA standards and think that they're too much for most dept's)?" Don't parse too much of what I've written, the parentheticals were added to define a bit what I was after....
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Vic, 1) Specifically I was referring to a NIOSH LODD report in which two firefighters we recovered from inside a trailer with their masks hanging off, unattached. The conclusion was that neither were wearing their mask when they entered a burning ...
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I agree that these are rather loaded questions. Just to stir the pot a bit: Why would anyone enter a burning structure without putting on their masks? 1) A 9 story building, fire in the top floor - do you mask up at the street level, or after asce...
yesterday
just an organized mob with access to water HAHAHA... I know quite a few "departments" that would fall into that category
yesterday
Are we too safe (meet all NFPA standards or striving to), safe enough (meet many or most NFPA standards and feel you've done enough) Do you feel that NFPA is real-world in establishing our standards or it's something for just the rich kids to worr...
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Hometown:
The Enlightened Northeast
Years in Fire/EMS:
9
Why I Joined the Fire/EMS:
didn't think the sales people, marketing wonks and PR wizzes could do it all by themselves
Department Type:
Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer, Fire/Rescue Department - Paid, Combination Fire Rescue Department, Other Fire Department
My Training:
enough to get me where I am, oh and a college (4 yr.) degree to boot.
Day Job:
what, no night job option?

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At 10:54am on November 18, 2009, Kali Goddess of Destruction said…
Jack -

Loved the video - You made the short list of people who "get" me ;o)

Kali
At 9:08pm on November 11, 2009, Streetking said…
hahaha, i think thats called life brother. its going pretty good here, just workin away, got my college orientation next monday, pretty excited about that, other than that, not much, waiting for my copy of Modern Warfare 2 so i can play it, lol
At 3:40pm on November 11, 2009, Streetking said…
hey bud, hows life going for you?
At 10:05pm on November 7, 2009, Loyd Dittfurth said…
Just curious i read your post about all vollie departments should be combination with atleast 4 paid certified staff im curious how you think that would work out in the texas panhandle where there are 2 paid and 4 combination fire depts in the entire panhandle
At 9:54pm on November 5, 2009, FireDaily.com said…
Gasoline on a fire, my friend. Thanks for the suggestion! Ha!
At 11:08pm on October 25, 2009, Justin said…
just stopping by to say hello, be safe out there
At 5:10pm on October 20, 2009, Streetking said…
its going great brother, how about you?
At 7:48am on October 20, 2009, Ralph L. Carr IV said…
my suggestion, instead of deleting posts, how about deleting points for non-compliance? Just a thought...if that's still allowed...

A mind is a terrible thing to waste......lol......That thread`s comments are now closed. You see that? Great idea by the way.
At 1:55pm on October 19, 2009, Streetking said…
Hey brother, just dropping by to say hello, hope all is good with you.
Be safe,
Street
At 6:10pm on October 14, 2009, Sarah Turner said…
it's still going.. i have a photo shoot with them on oct 21st anyways... so hopefully some of those pics will get in.. gonna be at the firehouse.
 
 

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