All Blog Posts Tagged 'equipment' (4)

My station is the 1st Fire Station of Athens (1ος Πυροσβεστικός Σταθμός Αθηνών). It can easily be found b… Continue

So as my questions asks, "What is actually in your turnout pockets?" I am a firm believer that every firefighter should be equipped with the basic tools required to start self-preservation/rescue operations when confronted with firefighter entrapment. Now I am pretty sure folding spanners have a place on the fireground but when was the last time you used one inside a burning building? Besides modern fire apparatus have so many spanners mounted on it, it will make your head spin. So at the start… Continue

Hi Everybody! PLANETRESCUE is a worldwide non-profit organization struggling to help and rescue climatic disasters victims everywhere around the world particularly in third world countries but with climate evolution we start also on "industrial" countries. We have lot of money donations from all around the world but we try to save this for direct help to peoples who loses everything, so rather to buy new equipments and materials or vehicles we try to acquire used or second hand and it is a real… Continue

For any of us that serve on volunteer or rapid deployment units storage of gear can be a real issue. You need to have all of your gear available but you can't look like Paris Hilton with a separate butler to carry all our bags. I'm always on the look out for any tips or pointers that can assist with packing equipment. I recently saw an article on packing for a trip. But, though that it also could apply to gear. I have reprinted the article below. Pleas post any ideas you have or tips you have fo… Continue