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- I Live: (City, State)
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Years in Fire/EMS:
- 35
- Why I Joined the Fire/EMS:
- Got interested as a teenager, loved learning new things, and working with my hands. As I learned and understood how important serving others was, I really got excited. This is now the reason I still am involved and it has become a big part of my life.
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- Primary Fire/EMS Department:
- Cooleemee FD
- Department Type:
- Combination Fire Rescue Department
- Rank/Role There:
- Firefighter / EMT-Basic, Other
- Years With This Department/Agency
- 4
- Second Department (if appl.)
- Kernersville Rescue Squad
- 2nd Department Type:
- EMS/Rescue Squad - Volunteer
- Rank/Role at Second Department:
- Other Senior Command Staff, EMT - Basic, Administrative Staff / Team Member
- Years With Second Department/Agency
- 7
- Other Past or Current Departments:
- Lake Junaluska FD
Beesons FD
South Fork FD
Smith Reynolds Airport FD
Forsyth Rescue Squad
Cooleemee PD
Alleghany Co SO
- My Training:
- Instructor for 11 years: IFSAC Level II, NFPA 1001 Firefighter I & II, NFPA 1006-Rescue Technician, Ropes Specialty; Structural Collapse Specialty, Agricultural Specialty; Farmedic, Trench Collapse Rescue, Emergency Rescue Technician, Confined Space Rescue, Rescue Systems I and II (Light and Heavy Structural Collapse), Citizen’s Emergency Response Teams (CERT).
Certified: Emergency Medical Technician; Firefighter II, Emergency Rescue Technician, SARTECH 2, Haz-Mat Ops, Office of Domestic Preparedness WMD NBC Ops/ Command, Structural Collapse Technician- FEMA USAR, Collapse Structural Specialist- NASA USAR
- About Me:
- Experience: Charter Member of N C Task Force-1, Urban Search and Rescue Team (NC EM TF-4), former Logistics’ Manager for NC TF-1, and a line officer with Forsyth Rescue Squad; Deployed to Hurricane Floyd and the Tornado in Stoneville, NC; served on the NFPA 1006 Rescue Technician Validation Committee, and a Firefighter with the Cooleemee FD. Also a Technical Rescue Advisor for the Kernersville RS and fourteen years in law enforcement as a Deputy Sheriff and an Assistant Chief of Police.
- Day Job:
- Fire / Rescue Instructor
- Side Jobs or Other Organizations:
- Remodeling and Landscaping
- Personal Site/Profile:
- http://MySpace: rsqinstructor Yahoo: rescuehead99 or techrescue@e...
- Top Issues Facing Responders:
- 1. 400 years of heritage impeded by progress.
2. This is my sandbox, and you cann't play in it ?
3. New firefighters being told that "you know that department up the road... they don't have crap, know crap, or cann't do crap.. why would we want to train with them ?
4. TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN !!!
- I Love Being in Fire/EMS Because:
- Events are constantly changing, usually never the exact same twice. Training and learning new things from instructors and students alike. Enjoy teaching students,especially new brothers and sisters to the fire service.
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If your standing on the edge, your in my way!
Posted on June 30, 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
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The "Hot" picture was taken in an old shipping container we use for fire attack and flashover training. If you can get a hold of one it is an excellent tool for teaching fire behavior and attack streams
FOr rescue i have an MSA F2 X-treme. With googles on it.
I have always a set of safety glasses in arms reach when we go to rescue.
What type of helmets do u use? Modern style or traditional style?
Overhere helmetranking signs and coat colors are regulated by national standards. So normaly everywhere in Belgium it should be so but isn't because some don't follow the rule. But most departments do.
Regards
Roel
About the orange panels on some of our coats, they are a way of indicating and fast redognition of sergeants (same as your luitenant) and adjudant (same as your captain) they are in charge of the engine.
Chiefs have complet orange coats. We have also rank indicators on ourhelmets. I'll try to put a list of the diferent ranks and indicators on my page in a few days.
About the double axle lorry, it has a wide range of use. Mostly transporting equipment from and to incident scenes.
About the cribbing, for the moment the cribbing is limited for only limited shoring but we are in proces of improving that. We use wood, and mechanical shores. We also have a basic set of Holmatro power shores in our light rescue unit.
About our apparatus, basic color for fire apparatus is fire red end for EMS it is since a few years bright yellow, before it was white for EMS.
Reflective markings are on few engines different because there was untill last year no rules about that but this changed last year and now there is a rule about how and where reflective markings have to be.
Regards
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