Question.... Dive team, what is your max dept your allowed to dive. Up in Canada it's 50ft, but sometimes we are known for having long arms...
Mace

Although we have lakes and rivers in our area, we are only shore base. "Swim to me!" Recovery is completed by our Police "Max 50ft". We do have mutil-aid Fire Dept. that will come if we require.
But by the time they get here, it's recovery. Lot of training goes into water rescue.
Mace

Thanks for the add! look forward to talking with you, be safe!!

appreciate the add!! talk to you soon!

thanks...i just have state exam to take. i passed the class with an "A", so hopefully i'll do ok!

was up

I love it!! I'm ex-military, so I've always enjoyed the hole HOO YAA! thing... We do a lot of training, and not so much the real thing.. I guess thats good... How about you? how do you like Dive rescue? I dive here, but havent gotten into the rescue....

There is no fun in that, last weekend they where looking for a teenager who was in the lake. Found, but it was a recovery by the time the correct services notified.

Mace

Hope all is well and be safe....

Bummer, I guess you'd need A big city to warrant a swat team.. Maybe there is a neighboring city that has one.. But I would think that you stay pretty busy with water rescue?

hey thanks for the add. how are you? stay safe

what kind

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everything is great. you have any good calls latley? stay safe

Check out Roll Call Forum and put some info about your Fire House in... Like to hear what your station is like, what you have as well as for number for firefighters as well as number of calls. Pass it around to your Firefighter Friends too....

Mace

Go civialian!! Don't waste your time with the military. It really sucks and they really don't have that much in the way of emergency services.

civilian I mean...haha

The training is a lot better out here too.

Thanks for the invite. Funny though considering I'm actually from Topeka. (Auburn to be specific)

I'm in beautiful Colorado now, I'm a firefighter in the Denver Metro area.

It's a tough spot. The best training I get is from the other guys on shift. There is a lot of experience out there

Yeah its awesome. I'm hopefully getting a part time gig at a ski resort FD as well. That means free skiing as well as more calls. Giggity

One thing we do is have quarterly training with all the dept's in the county. You might see if you can reach out to the training officer of a close by dept to see if you could start up something like that. Have all the depts in the area come together for training.

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I'm in Kansas City, MO. I got recalled to the Marines.

ummm....I have no clue. Sucks though.

Well I went to KC for a screening. I'm probably going to end up in Iraq. I'm putting in a package so that I can stay with my dept though.

It is supposed to be for a year. I'm supposed to go to Iraq. It never works out that way though.

everyone is unless you have already served 8 years. still getting a raw deal though

I don't think I'm going to have to go anywhere. When I was up there in KC, they showed me and DD&E option that if I'm a public servant then I'm not going to get called back. But as of right now til I send that crap in I'm still going. Hell they could deney that package and send me anyway...haha that would suck but you never know with the gov't

So are you staying at AMR or are you going to take the city test to get a real job?

Just to let you know I worked there for four months with Dennis as my trainning officer. So now you can fell bad for me.

form north K.C. when i was younger, go K.U.

Hey city is getting ready to hire again if you are interested, I know you told me you where @ one point.

Are you taking the test Saturday?

You should be working you don't have time to be on here.

Good luck saturday, I am on duty maby we will be down there.

Good luck, I'm sure you wont need it. It is easy.

Hope the test went well.

That is the same test I took. It is alot easier than the old test. I'm sure you did fine.

Well did you pass the test

congrats, I figured that you would do fine. I talked with B.Flott and he said that everyone that he had talked to did not pass. So are you ready for the other part of the test? When you get past that you will have a job. GOOD LUCK!

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