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Turnout Gear Questions
Hey, I'm an Peachtree City Fire/ Rescue Explorer and we get full turnout gear and get to take it home and everything and wanted to know if y'all did too??
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Permalink Reply by rfdjumper on
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Well William,
I'm a City of Reading, PA paid firefighter, and I don't have a locker, so yes I do take my full turnout gear home. To tell you the truth I'd rather leave my full turnout gear at a firehouse in a locker.
Don't get a hernia lugging your full tunout gear all around to all those Boy Scout Explorer emergencies.
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Permalink Reply by William McKinnon on
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thanks I will try not to
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Turner on
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my my some hostility out of the full timer..
I too am a full timer, and I take all my valuables out of my gear after every shift. Some guys take their gear home as well because where we are there is a good chance of coming to work and finding your turnout gear or anything in it missing.
Just last shift the hubcaps got stolen off the chief mobile.
Yay for theives.
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Permalink Reply by Adam Snow on
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I am a volunteer on a small department and we can take our gear home if we what to. I do not because is just easier to live it in our equipment truck then if I don’t make it to the station I know my gear will get to the scene. But most of the time I just go to the station anyway because you can’t do anything if the trucks don’t get to the scene. And this time of the year i get in to a warm pair of boots.
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Permalink Reply by rav3375 on
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hi i am from greatvalley ny and we can take are grear home with us if wre want i do becous most of the time it is easer for me to go to the sean then to the hall beaouc i live 5miles away from the hall and there are othe member who are withen 1 mile of the3 hall
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Permalink Reply by dj lee on
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My dept let us take our gear to take home also. I don't always make a truck and have to respone in my personal truck.
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Permalink Reply by John on
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All of our gear is kept at the station, the only time we take it with us is when we are on the medic that night.
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Permalink Reply by turk182 on
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We let our firefighters take theirs but they have to sign for them and if they are lost or stolen then they are responsible for them.
If the gear is damaged at a call or training then the department replaces it.
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Permalink Reply by Tracy Pollard on
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yea that's pretty well protocol, because it's easier to leave your house prepared than to go to the dept. and get your equipment then go to the scene... lot easier...
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Permalink Reply by Wade Harris Baker on
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I have 2 sets of full turn out gear on for the volunteer department and one for the Ambulance. I leave my turnout gear in both stations I used to be the guy who took everything home you will learn it is alot easier to leave it instead of working around it and moving it in and out of your trucks. The only thing I take home is my Radio and most of the time it is off they just page my phone anymore.
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Permalink Reply by Jessica Travis on
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No we cannot take ours home. We have to get special permission to take it out of the station for anything other than drills / trainings / calls. We get full gear.
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