Weight vest for fire dept PT testing

I have something that concerns me and I have got to get this out. The other day I went to take a PT test to see if I could get on as a fulltime firefighter at a nearby county fire dept. I felt good when I got there.. Well they was useing this vest not sure how much the thing weighed?? But it was the heaveist thing I have ever put on in my life!! I have been in the fire service for 18 years and being in fullturnout gear with an SCBA on would not be as heavy as this vest!! I didnt even get halfway through the course until I went down , I gave out!! And to those of you who think I am a whimp , let me assure you I am not I am in good physical condition, besides being in the fire service for 18 years i have also worked and lived on on a farm so I am used to heavy work!! But this vest should not be used in the fire service , I wasnt the only one haveing trouble with it!! I am also a safety officer with the volunteer dept I am with and like I said fire gear and SCBA weighs less than this vest!! I know depts need the testing but use a firecoat and an SCBA with actual wieght not these vest!!!!!! The idea in new SCBA design and also fire gear design is to make it so it has less wieght on a firefighter than to add weight to them , the less weight you can place on a firefighter the better they can perform there jobs and reduce firefighter fatigue.. If you ask me this vest is just asking for a lawsuit!! If memebers want to use it to do weight traing in and then let them use it but dont make it a mandatory thing!!

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Permalink Reply by Phoenix on December 29, 2010 at 7:44am

Probably get a better response out of a couple of D batteries. Sorry, Patti. That wasn't very nice.

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Permalink Reply by Phoenix on December 29, 2010 at 7:47am

Gas to drive to testing...$10, weighted vest....$50, Patti taking this guy to school......PRICELESS!!

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Permalink Reply by Patti Walz on December 29, 2010 at 7:50am

No worries.... considering it is true..... hehehe

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Permalink Reply by Richard Armstrong on December 29, 2010 at 6:31pm

You'd probably be toooo much for him anyway and then there would be another post saying how he couldn't cut it and it wasn't fair anyway

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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on December 29, 2010 at 11:13pm

What the hell? Someone must have really cheesed everyone off here, I've never seen such abuse on this page before.

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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on December 30, 2010 at 12:35am

What the hell? Someone must have really cheesed everyone off here, I've never seen such abuse on this page before.

Yeah Vic, the OP decided to come back under another screen name and ranted about the same issue as the post here. From there, after basically being told what he didn't want to hear, decided to go on a nice pleasant reply mode which reflected the yammering of the class bully being called out.