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I love Clyde Berg and his guys. Go, Braeden!
Lord, Murray; I don't know what to say. God bless you, for the ultimate sacrifice. I swear I believe there are angels watching over us. I know and believe Tracy and Dean are there, still loving you; and looking out after you, and all of us.
I am ...
Lord, Murray; I don't know what to say. God bless you, for the ultimate sacrifice. I swear I believe there are angels watching over us. I know and believe Tracy and Dean are there, still loving you; and looking out after you, and all of us.
I am ...
May the good Lord hold Justin's family close to his Heart right now. Heaven has another Angel.
If you read what I wrote, my whole concern was about FF1, and a lot of options that could have been used to help pull him back.
I agree 100%, great rescue... just like to look out for fellow FF... like to see those guys live to do many more rescues. It WAS awesome... if you read to the end... the FF had to be taken to the hospital... that was my point. Came off poorly, I j...
Thank you for the unbelievable compliment.... !!!! I hope to live up to your expectations.
Stay safe bro
Patricia
Profile Information
- Hometown:
- St. Aug
- I Live: (City, State)
- Florida
- Years in Fire/EMS:
- 2.5
- Why I Joined the Fire/EMS:
- what I always wanted to do
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- Primary Fire/EMS Department:
- graduate BS in Pub Admin
- Department Type:
- Other Response Agency Type
- Rank/Role There:
- Firefighter, First Responder
- Other Past or Current Departments:
- Division Of Forestry
- My Training:
- Haz Mat Environmental science AS 95
Regs/HAZWOPER/ Organic chemistry/sampling-analysis/toxicology,
Corrections
LEO
Wildland FF
Structure I
AS- Env Sci pensacola jr college AA- Gainesville, FL
BS Pub Admin Flagler College
- About Me:
- Constantly evaluating, trying to gather enough data to evolve programs to make them equitable, effective, and efficient.
- Side Jobs or Other Organizations:
- 1992- Env Sci degree full time ASC program-commute 50 miles. bar back 2-3 nights per week
Wildlife Field tech- Eglin AFB/UF/UT Black Bear Project Trapped, collared, monitored black bears for habitat usage. Full access to range, including all restricted areas, back-ground check. Labor intensive trap setting, bear capture, bio-med work up. Field tech
Moved home, helped buddy fill 600 skateboard order to Japan...only if we built and delivered in 3 mos..... jigsawed decks, routered edges, painted, applied, cut grip tape, installed trucks and wheels... wrapped, packed and shipped.
Driver, active tour guide- Sightseeing Train in Nations Oldest City and streets FULL of traffic- 1 hr tours-6/day in real-time traffic
over 10 years.
Days off- Educational tours with school kids of Fort, and museums in city. Assigned group of 30 per day, itinerary, march them through city on foot, and their parents and teachers.
Nights- Ghost Tours. 1-2 typically, per night.
Retail- Liquor store...unloaded semis, stocked store. sales and store upkeep. Dealing with a full range of public daily, keeping peace.
Florida Division of Forestry- Wildland Firefighter- responded to smoke complaints, wildfires, prescribed burns. Upkeep of trucks, dozer, grounds, paperwork mitigation projects, Smokey Bear Fire Prevention Work. Citrus canker Project in Orlando, deployed throughout 3 counties to help hurricane damage mitigation projects.
Left to finish Bachelor's degree in Public Administration.
Security guard
Wildfire detail in Cal- month of July
Graduated Pub Admin Decemeber.
Currently organizing a fun-walk to help raise funds for under-served areas after hurricanes
- Top Issues Facing Responders:
- Inability to conduct post-assessments to incidents... with all members speaking freely. We don't do it. What did we do right, what did we do wrong/ not a flogging session, NOT an investigation..what went good/ what didn't? Why?
The only goal is to try to help, and to try to get better at the process of trying to help.
- I Love Being in Fire/EMS Because:
- we can solve problems
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- At 7:32am on February 6, 2009,
Tony P said… - You have some useful training alright :)
Urban interface is a big thing for us, we don't have many big cities, but those we do have sprawl!
Stay and defend or leave early - this has been working for years here. Nobody is forced into it, totally voluntary and we teach that whichever decision you make is the correct one for you. My eldest son and his wife have just had to make their decision tonight. Any fires tomorrow are almost certain to go out of control, and they live in the interface. They have National Park all around them. He will stay, she will bring the two little girls to my house around mid-day. Their decision,made together, so a correct decision.
- At 12:24am on February 6, 2009,
Tony P said…
- Hello Patricia. You want work? Like what I hear in the USA, career firefighter jobs here are much sought after. Always hundreds applying for each vacancy on a course! Plenty of space for more volunteers, but it's hard to live on no money!
Have a look at these two sites, our two State Fire Services:
www.cfa.vic.gov.au and www.mfb.vic.gov.au
- At 11:33am on November 9, 2008,
Tim Meckler # 575 said… - welcome to the family patricia
- At 10:32am on November 9, 2008,
Mark said… - hello yea kinda busy ,I'm on the vollunteer squad.
- At 10:55am on November 8, 2008,
Mark said…
- welcome ,where in FL ? stay safe from Flagler County
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Jake,
I would have thought that a "threshold" ff would be a transitional stage, from exterior to interior, or I suppose it could be the "next" level up as "firefighter", you know as in:
exterior,
threshold,
interior,
roof,
basement,
sunny day,
rai...
Not again, get over this already
I will take the Pledge also, And pass on to my people.
Perhaps, and this might be a stretch, but it may have to do with:
1) The perpetual whining about why career guys don't like volunteer guys (ever hear a paid guy whine about vollies not liking him/them?)
2) The fact that there are differences betw...
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