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so a comment about NIMS training
yes i know training is important and neccessary. so dont take what im about to say out of context. but NIMS training is MIND NUMBING. thats all :)
stay safe \
jake
stay safe \
jake
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Permalink Reply by Jake McDonald on
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glad im not the only one who feels that way. i just completed 100 and that is 2 hrs of my life i want back but will never get.
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i am. but im sure i will at some point have to take it. and i still have 700 to take. just could not bring myself to do that tonight also.
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im sure its the same thing or something similar. and my condolences for you having to suffer also
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Permalink Reply by Jason Brooks on
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The overall concept of NIMS is great. The application will never work since noone can remember the stupid acronyms and what to do with them. Unless you run big incidents all the time, annual wildfires, you will most likely never use 98% of what we learned in all those classes. The best part of NIMS is the $100/hr that the instructors are getting paid from the federal government.
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Permalink Reply by Oldman on
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100, and 200 were a cakewalk. 700, I printed out to look at. 800??? I printed it out and still am not sure what it said. The 300 test was unlike any test I had taken before. 400, in my opinion, should have been 300, and 300 should have been 400.
I have said from the start, this stuff works great on paper, but when you get beyond a regional incident, things will not go as it does on paper. Search google for live radio feeds from across the country. Listen to them and try to imagine a federal response with the different terms, phrases, and codes in use. It will be the proverbial monkey and the football.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on
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It's not only a time waster for us, but a down right waste of taxpayer money.
Seriously, are any of us really learning critical life saving skills that you can't learn in Firefighter I/II classes or department training from certified instructors? I know I haven't.
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Permalink Reply by R Griffin on
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If you take it and put it away to never train or use it again then it was a waste. if you touch base on it here and there and keep up and use the ICS then when you need help on a large scale emergency it is nice to know that the help coming will be on the same page as you or WHEN the big help takes over you don't look like the class act idiots that have no clue on how they are running things.
Even the BIG shots that come in need more training so when big things happen they will be a little faster on getting help set up. I do not believe however that they hold the NIMS training over our heads to be eligible for grant money for the equipment we need to do our jobs. ( that's another issue) but all in all I agree it is dry as toast to take. BE SAFE!!!
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Permalink Reply by T.J. on
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It's get worse trust me, I just took a longer version with my fire officer I & II class. Talk about wanting to go to sleep.
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Permalink Reply by Anita King on
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I know how you feel. After 300, all I could say was "That's three days of my life I will never get back." I do see where it would come in handy on major incidents. I can go along with the plain english thing. In fact, there are a lot of things that I can see benefit in. I mean, in most of your small rural depts., you would have to go multi-agency to even fill the leadership spots and still have people left to work if you had a major disaster. But, back to your point, does it have to be so dry, boring, and repetitive. I mean come on people.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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Brooks,
Not all NIMS instructors get $100 per hour. In SC, the classes are taught as a FEMA hand-off by state fire academy instructors. We get the princely sum of $14 per hour for teaching any class, NIMS included.
I-700, I-800, I-100, and I-200 are available as free online courses from FEMA, nationwide.
There are no instructors for those, so no instructors get paid for them.
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