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Jake (Berny) 26, Male Jamestown, United States: olorinpc; Share/Send This to Friends & Co-Workers

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When you were new, what was a mistake that you made that stands out to you to this day?

Replied Jan 19

Medical Training
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Started this discussion. Last reply by chele Jan 19.

Emergency lights on Personal vehicles

Replied Oct. 28, 2007

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Jake (Berny) added the blog post 'drill tonight' Jan 15

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Hometown:: Hastings, MN

I Live: (City, State): Jamestown, ND

Years in Fire/EMS:: 1

Why I Joined the Fire/EMS:: I made my former college town my home. I want to do something for the community that has now been my home for the past 8 years.

Relationship Status:: Married

Primary Fire/EMS Department:: Jamestown Rural Fire Department, ND

Department Type:: Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer

Rank/Role There:: Firefighter

Years With This Department/Agency: 1

Dept. Web Site:: http://jrfd.org

My Training:: Firefighter 1, HazMat, CPR, First Aid

Training for Firefighter 2

About Me:: I have been in the service about a year now. I never realized how much there was to learn, nor how much I would love it. The learning and training will never really be over... and thats quite exciting.

Day Job:: Business Advisor Associate

Personal Site/Profile:: http://www.myspace.com/olorinpc

Top Issues Facing Responders:: Training and experience and getting them working together.

I Love Being in Fire/EMS Because:: That tickel in the back of the head that the pager could go off at any moment. (and has)

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Second Tuesday every month is drill for us. Tonight was actually a really good night.

All of the things I have done for the fire dept so far... none of them has involved an SCBA. Well since fire school is in Feb. here... one of the guys took me aside and gave me 1 on 1 SCBA training tonight. Both the newer units and one of the older units. I am glad I finally got a prep lesson in that... yea while I get to take an 8hr class on it... there could always be some emergency before fire schoo… Continue

Posted on January 15th, 2008 at 12:36am — No Comments (Add)

First Post, First Year of Firefighting

Well, I wasn't going to blog here since I am always behind on my other blogs. However, this seems the best spot to blog about fighting fires.

I guess since this is my first post, I will give a little info about me. I joined the rural fire department here in Jamestown 2 months ago. I had been talking about it for a couple of years with a buddy who was on. Well the chance came up, so I got voted on as an apprentice firefighter.

In the past couple of months, we have gotten pages f… Continue

Posted on August 16th, 2007 at 12:35am — No Comments (Add)

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At 1:56am on October 29th, 2007, Kurt Stein said…: Hey Jake, Hope more ND Firefighters join this group, If you guys get a good call like a fire or extrication, please let me know about it. I am teaching a airbag, hybrid, and extrication recertification class for the next two weekends. We had a call on friday knight of a 1 vehicle rollover with entrapment and the car is on fire right in town. When we got there the guy was standing next to the car and the car was not on fire. That woke me up a 1:am. See ya, Kurt

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