Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Welcome back!

Been a little while since I blogged last but being on vacation can tend to do that. This past weekend marked the one year anniversary of us getting Teegan. We have been looking back as to what our life was like last year at this time, sleepless nights since his schedule was reversed, crying fits because he grieved for his foster mom, and the joy of having a child of our own. Life was hectic leading up to that time with trying to get her school stuff in line and I was trying to finish off the training schedule for October and making sure things were in line that way. Man what a difference a year makes!

Just a reminder that October is Fire Prevention Month and that Fire Prevention week is quickly approaching. Chuck has scheduled several visits at the schools with the safety house and anyone who can help even if for an hour would be greatly appreciated! Plus Open House is Oct. 9th so make sure you have that on your calendar and help will be needed during the day to get things picked up and set up.

With the start of October also means going into the quarter of the year. Which means EMT skills will need to be done, patient contacts upto date plus getting calls for the last quarter, and time to be looking at making drills if you are running short on training hours. I think Mark posted hours yesterday so take a look and see where you are standing.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Correct Answer is......

The correct answer to the poll question - When deploying the "Finish Load" inside a multi-story dwelling, placement of the "Y" should be where?

On the fire floor.

With the finish load, it is designed to be taken to the fire floor and if the fire is too advanced to use the 1 3/4" line, you disconnect the "Y" and have the 2 1/2" line. Once the fire is knocked down, you can turn off the nozzle of the 2 1/2" line and reconnect the "Y" and utilize the 1 3/4" line.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Training

For those of you who missed last nights meeting, and counting heads last night there were quite a few, here are a couple highlights:
1) Unable to have a business meeting because we did not have enough people.
2) Since business meetings tend to run short, Mark had set up a couple extrication scenarios.
3) At the informal meeting, Mark accepted the certificate from the National Fallen Firefighters for our pledge to wear our seatbelts. Please keep up the good work of wearing your seatbelts and making sure those that are in the truck with you are doing the same. It could be their life you are saving!
4) We will need to call a special meeting to introduce some changes to the by-laws. We need to present the changes and then at our next scheduled business meeting, vote on the changes. So please, talk to Chief about these changes and try to make the November business meeting so we can pass the changes.

Training clip