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whats the longest you have been on a call
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Too many variables...
Structure fire - 7 hours.
Hazmat - 6 hours.
Wildfire - 5 tours to the one large complex, 3 days each tour, 12 hour shifts. Plus two half days for travel for each tour.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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SBCOFD Type III Strike Team Returning from Incident (BC + 5 Engines)
When you get sent out IA, or Initial Attack, and typically in strike teams that consist of 5-like typed vehicles and a Battalion Chief, you are committed automatically for six-days, but more than not, the assignment turns into the maximum allowable, which is 14-days. The good news is that the pay for my department is portal to portal. Normal days off turn into overtime days which means you make a ton of money being gone for the two-week assignment... In some situations, and with a written request and permission from your department head, you can get a total of 21-days approved. This is all through Firescope, the ICS system and mutual aid agreements for Southern California.
Being retired now, I sure miss the OT... sigh...
CBz
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Permalink Reply by James Borsellino on
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I'm not sure, been 12 years since I was a volunteer and we use to pull fire watches, or smoldering barn fires with lots of hay and straw and I did someof those for 12 and 16 hours.
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Hawk on
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17 hours on Christmas day with a Haz-Mat.
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What a bunch of lucky guys, I'd get charged 14 days worth of vacation time and be eating out of my own wallet. But as we say in corrections a bad day doing anything else is better than a good day at the Facility.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Mass Casualty - 19 hours
Wildland Fire - 3 days
Flood - 5 days (12-hour operational periods)
Hazmat - 3 days
Structural Fire - 24 hours
Extircation (single patient) 3 hours, 10 minutes
Wilderness Search and Rescue - 3 days
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Popsuy on
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9 1/2 hours for an outside gas leak
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Beggs on
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28 hours. We had a 90'x186' dairy barn built in the 1930's. The mow was full of chopped hay and soybeans just about to the peak of the roof. We had a full response from 2 departments and tenders from 5 others plus we also had a DNR plane circling because we were getting spot fores starting up to a half mile away. The temp that morning was 86 degrees and the hunidity was at 100 percent. 4 firefighters were transported to the hospital for heat exhaustion. It was a very long day. Living in east central Wisconsin these fires used to be very common. We used to run 7 or 8 of these a year. Now we are lucky if we get 1 or 2 a year.
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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on
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Almost 9 hours. December 24th, 2009. Babysitting downed power lines after a big windstorm.
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Permalink Reply by CHRIS PUYLARA on
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18 + FOR A METH LAB BUST---TURNED AROUND THE NEXT AFTERNOON M/A CALL-- FULLY ENVOLVED TRAILER FIRE FULL OF AMMO AND GAS CANS.....
SPENT A WEEK AT THE WILDFIRE THAT WE HAD HERE IN NC A COUPLE OF YRS AGO
10-12- MARINE CORPS. GENERAL'S BUILDING BURNT DOWN---HAD OVER 30 DEPTS FOR THAT 1
HAVE BEEN ON OTHER LONG AFFAIRS TOO......NATURE OF THE BEAST......CAN I HAVE MORE PLEASE..???
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY.....TCSS.........CHRID
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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on
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Extircation (single patient) 3 hours, 10 minutes
Exactly 10 minutes? Need to be accurate if you're gonna respond to the discussion... ;-)
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