Dwayne

Profile Information:

Type of Organization
Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer
Job Function
Firefighter / EMT-Basic
Years in Fire/EMS:
4
Primary Fire/EMS Department:
Undercliff VFC Station 264 Shaler, PA
Years With Department/Agency
2
Other Past or Current Departments and Organizations
Hampton Township Volunteer Fire Departmant Station 164 (Current)
Seneca Area Emergency Services Station 160 (Current)
Allegheny County HazMat Silver Team Station 430 (Current)
My Training:
FF1, EMT, Industrial HazMat Tech, BVR Tech,
About Me:
Just ask me
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506943659
Day Job:
Firefighter/EMT/Security at a Steel Mill
Relationship Status:
Single
Facebook or Other Online Profile:
http://myspace.com/dsstootall
Why I Joined Fire/EMS
It runs in the family
Why I Love Fire/EMS
Helping People
Top Issues Facing Responders:
Old timers doubting the abilities of younger better trained FFs than them

Comment Wall:

  • Randy Macey

    Like your comment about Old Timers, it's something else with the difference of opinion on what an Old timer and a Newbee are. Times have changed and one thing people do not like is change. As a trainer it's a bitch to convert the old guys to the new ways....
    Mace

    Aug 16, 2007

  • Randy Macey

    Buddy your right, one thing no one likes is change.
    Unless it's a new truck, but then again we are so in love with the old one that we don't want to give it up. But we all have to remember the days when we first got on and how horny we where for that first call. Although there is some difference now from then, I know some of the older guys who said they where given a pager and gear and told your a firefighter. It's no longer the boys club now, there is a lot more training and safety put in behind all of it. Not everything is taught out of a book, your right on that part that it take years of doing. We all judge the new guy, and forget sometimes what the new guy must feel like walking into the family. But we hope that maybe one of the older guys grabs the new guy before the black sheep of the family gets to him first.

    Aug 17, 2007