As I am sitting here in the day room, watching some WW2 movies, I was surfing reddit and quora forums looking at what kind of questions people have out there. One question that stood out to me was in regards to hazardous materials (hazmat) spills or leaks is how first responders are able to identify…
I’m sitting here on the recliner writing this while watching Home Alone (the original that came out in 1990) , and I was just surfing the internet and checked out an interesting question on Quora. Even though as firefighters, it’s easy to forget that things that seem “obvious” to us, are not that obvious to…
So here I am sitting in the Sam’s club food court, enjoying a 4 oz hotdog and a drink for $1.50, can’t beat that man. Anyway, as I was enjoying my lunch, I was surfing the internet, reddit and quora specifically. I came across a question that peaked my interest. This individual asked, how can…
The other day, I stopped by the local community college in my area, and was chatting with some of the fire instructors about how things are going with them, how things are going with me, etc. I then saw some of the law enforcement instructors I also had when I went through the police academy,…
After speaking to many people both in and out of the fire service as to the things that they did to get hired by a full time fire department. There tends to be many different paths to get hired by a department. Many times these options can be drastically different from state to state or…
I was watching one of the most famous fire service movies, backdraft. Although the movie can be pretty cheesy, there are aspects of the movie that confuse a lot of people, and continue to either surprise or catch people off gaurd. In this movie, the main character is depicted as a man who is a…
I was recently chatting with other firefighters around the kitchen table, we were throwing jabs at each other as usual about all kinds of stuff. I specifically get made fun of all the time because I used to be a sheriff’s deputy. So even though I am no longer in law enforcement, I get made…
I recently stopped by the regional fire academy I attended when I was first getting my certifications to get into the fire service. As I sat there in the classroom watching these young 18,19 & 20 year old people learn and eventually ask for some pointers on getting hired at our department, I remember wondering…
Here I was sitting drinking some coffee and chatting with the incoming crew a bit about. Of course here and there we take jabs at each other. Myself and a few other firefighter are big guys, and we like to rip into the much smaller guys. Yes there are many benefits in being somewhat smaller…
A few weeks ago I was sitting in a room with other first responders, such as police, fire, ems, dispatchers & jailers over a critical incident that occured at the local county jail, resulting in a fatality in the jail’s sally port. As people began to relive the events that occurred, and talk out loud…
