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Type of Organization: Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer

Job Function: Training Officer

Years in Fire/EMS:: 3

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

Years With Department/Agency: 3

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

My Training:: Firefighter 1 & 2 HazMat: Ops lvl, CPR, First Aid

Day Job:: SAP Business Analyst

Relationship Status:: Married

Facebook or Other Online Profile:: http://www.facebook.com/jakob.barnard

Why I Joined Fire/EMS: I made my former college town my home. I wanted to do something for the community that has now been my home for the past 10 years.

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

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

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drill tonight

Posted on January 15, 2008 at 12:36am 0 Comments 0 Likes

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… Continue

First Post, First Year of Firefighting

Posted on August 16, 2007 at 12:35am 0 Comments 0 Likes

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… Continue

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At 1:56am on October 29, 2007, Paint Boy 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