Your welcome and i hope you have a great day yourself and stay safe.

Thanks Moose. Nice to meet you. If you are on Facebook search FETC Services and I have some training material on there as well.

Bill Greenwood

FETC Services

www.fetcservices.com

You have a right to post b/c you do the job but on your own time and experience some of the same situations. While a Firefighter I also on my days off as a psychologist and my last job was at the local VA as a therapist on the PTSD program. A comparison with your situation and the military situation is that the military has activated the reserves. The incident of PTSD w/career military is abt. 19% and incident with the reserves is 44%. You can extrapilate that to volunteers. The two different groups went in for different reasons. The career went in knowing they were going to war and the reserves didn't they would. PTSD is very common in the fire service. The important part is that PTSD is a normal reaction to abnormal or trauma events. 

I am with you in your RANTING, the public doesnt care if your paid, just that you do your job.  We have members that get to a point and then think they can start missing training.  I have found that alot of Vol Officers dont think they have the same legal libalities as paid Officers and are shocked to think OSHA may come knocking if someone is injured.  We have to have standards to ensure we stay safe.

Hey Moose, thanks for accepting, I think and you and I think alike based on your posts.  Sometimes I dont respond right away. not ingoring folks just dont visit here often. Its that time thing.

Stay safe

Russ

Hey Cap...Send me a message. Our department is in the process of starting to spec out a new engine and our old engine is a HME FFA, I think the model is a penetrator...but not positive I am the Rescue Driver. The engine is 15 years old but we have records for everything done on it and to it by a major repair facility that Pierce authorizes to do their factory service here in our area...The few times I have driven it, it handles very well, the pump is strong and just passed inspection this past October.  1500 gal tank, and 1250 gpm pump. More of a long term solution for you guys...but it is a good engine taken care of by a fairly busy engine company. We had to know it was going to work when we headed out and made sure the maintenance was done on it religiously. Good luck in your apparatus search!