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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 16, 2011 at 12:59am

See Ernie - you are getting much better at giving a scene report - HEE HEE

YES YES - those are the juicy details that we want !!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 16, 2011 at 12:58am

Izzy - I have done it HUNDREDS of times...

One of the greatest thrills of living with a FF that was also on another dept - I get my calls and theirs... hee hee

Comment by Izzy ( J. Bade) on February 16, 2011 at 12:57am

I used to smell my ex husband when he came home from a fire that I couldnt go to ( babies at home, and we were both on the same dept, so we alternated) and I would get so pi**ed when I could tell it was a good fire ! argh

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on February 16, 2011 at 12:57am

The initial knockdown took away the remaining radiant heat that had gotten to the house.

We had two engines on scene, as per SOPs and we had about 15-20 on scene. Each of the two stations is manned by one full-time FF who respond with the engines for a fire, or an ambulance for EMS calls, and we, the volunteers, respond by POV.

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 16, 2011 at 12:56am

Ernie - YOU SHOULD DO EMS TOO... more than 80% of fire calls I have been on also need EMS skills - think burned people you coming out of the building - rehab for FFs - or patient care to FF injuries, etc. etc.

Not to mention the million medical calls / accidents and other fun things... such as the gas leak which ends up with 20 people with CO poisoning...

MORE TOOLS IN YOUR TOOLBOX - MAKE YOU MORE EFFECTIVE AND COMPETENT AND CONFIDENT IN EVERY SETTING...

One of my Chief's died on scene at a structure fire - so the FFs were doing patient care for 20 minutes while waiting for an ambulance. Since my district really does not have extra ambulances to sit on most scenes just watching and waiting for injury.

Comment by Izzy ( J. Bade) on February 16, 2011 at 12:54am

you know it ! and dont tell me you never did it. LMAO

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on February 16, 2011 at 12:54am

Definitely different from a book and I haven't had a live fire training yet.

Not much of an on scene plan other than getting it knocked down, it was fully engulfed by the time we got on scene.

I heard a few tires blow out, so, hopefully, we got things cooled down before anything explosive reached that point.

The siding on the house received some heat damage prior to our arrival, but, by the time we got on scene, it had already cooled.

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on February 16, 2011 at 12:50am

Izzy - SMELL someone ELSE's GEAR - ROTFLMAO ... SO TRUE SO TRUE !!!

Comment by Izzy ( J. Bade) on February 16, 2011 at 12:50am

right again, dont do it half a$$ed, because you "want to get in there" only one thats going to pay for it is you. gotta take care of you and your partner first. we've all been there, just giving you some friendly reminders, we all know what its like with that adrenaline dump

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on February 16, 2011 at 12:48am

At that point it was basically overhaul where I helped to pull insulation off the walls and ceiling and started to try to push the plywood and boards off the rafters so we could get to the remaining hot spots.

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