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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 10:36pm

nice... way to show up the youngins... LOL...

 

I believe... SEASONED FFs ... know... their personal limitations better...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 10:19pm

I continually can not comprehend the LODD deaths in the U.S. compared to other countries - I know there are a lot of compounding factors - but I feel strongly that our numbers could and should drop.

 

Just before I joined my department, one of our Chiefs did of a heart attack on scene of a structure fire. That hung heavily over our department. And just after I retired, one of my dearest friends on my department died while doing fire/ems duty at a stock car race track... to name just a fwe that heavily impacted me...

I continually can not comprehend the LODD deaths in the U.S. compared to other countries - I know there are a lot of compounding factors - but I feel strongly that our numbers could and should drop.

 

Just before I joined my department, one of our Chiefs died of a heart attack on scene of a structure fire. That hung heavily over our department. And just after I retired, one of my dearest friends on my department died while doing fire/ems duty at a stock car race track... to name just a fwe that heavily impacted me...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 9:50pm

Yes my father-in-law served on a FD in that neighborhood in Mass for 20 years and knew those firefighters well. Tough tough case. So sad.

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 9:17pm

Yup Jim remember how I was saying a few pages back about getting significant frost burn on my face and neck at a huge 3-structure fire fire because I got distracted rescuing people and didn't finish doing up my collar properly...  Small mistake - but painful... and it could have cost my life if live embers of something had ended up in my 1/2 open collar...

 

I learned !!!!!!!!

 

AND NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN FORGET TO FULLY DO UP MY COLLAR ON MY COAT...   and make sure ALL OF MY GEAR was properly done up... I also made a personal mission to tell everyone else when their gear was not properly put in place...

 

Learn... do better... and teach others... to do better... and learn...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 9:13pm

So glad you had a great day Jim !!!

 

I personally have VERY STRONG FEELINGS about the LODD numbers in the U.S.   sooooooooo many un-necessary deaths... I have lost FFs I loved... and been to way to many LODD funerals...

 

I want more FFs to advocate changes - especially in the old school FFs who don't want to learn new (perhaps better) ways to accomplish their goal...

 

So glad the geriatrics are fighting this fight! So proud of you !!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 7:50pm

and yeah Jim & I have been discussing the "what have you learned" approach to calls...

 

as a monkey that always served me well - one of the most profound things I learned - one of my Chiefs would always say "If you're not learnin' you're burnin' " 

 

that phrase ALWAYS stuck with me... and made me change the way I viewed calls and scene evaluation and even stories about calls

 

the geriatric members ofmy department always made it clear that I PERSONALLY DID NOT have to learn everything the hard way - I could learn from their stories and their experiences

 

YIPPEE YIPPEE... FIREFIGHTER / EMT ERNIE !!! Glad to hear you are getting these classes under your belt and tests out of the way

 

Brian - you will survive the next generation... ALWAYS remember wisdom is not passed down by osmosis it must be directly provided to those that will carry on after us

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 3, 2011 at 7:40pm

Hey Ernie & Brian !!!

 

I am sure I was a monkey the entire decade I was on the dept (annoying the hell out of everyone) - joined when I was 18, retired (moved out of State) at age 28...  never got to be the geriatric, until my post-FD-days... LOL

Comment by Brian J. on December 3, 2011 at 7:21pm

Chris, sometimes it takes us old timers to show the monkeys how it's done!! In my engine company there's 4 of us over 40 and the rest are 31 and younger!! Youngest is my new project, I mean probie. At least you got to do some work!!

Ernie, good luck!! That's awesome that it looks like you'll be able to take the written the same day!!

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on December 3, 2011 at 6:58pm

Wow...almost down to the wire!!  Went up to Aberdeen today to practice on practicals and have the instructor finish signing us off on them.  We have our state practical testing in one week and it sounds like we will be able to take our national written tests on the same day since our class is the furthest away from the test site.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend and is staying safe!

Comment by Chris Moyer on December 3, 2011 at 10:39am

Sometimes no matter how hard you try you still cant save the structure. Not from lack of trying though.

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