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Hello from Illinois. Just wanted to welcome you to FFN. Not sure where Eden Prairie is, but I was born in St. Paul. Stay safe!

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Welcome to the Firefighter Nation. In addition to the relatively cool videos and fire scene photos, there are numerous groups, discussions and chat available.

If you have never had the opportunity, take a minute to explore firefighterclosecalls.com and the secret list. This is a wonderful web site to explore and learn from the mistakes of others. It is also, sadly, a roll call of those whom have made the ultimate sacrifice, in their service to their communities.

We have all joined the Public Safety Community for a variety of our personal reasons. Some of us are paid, while others volunteer. Many are firefighters, while others enjoy the EMS side of the house. We have active firefighters, line officers, chiefs, administrative officers, and a number of old timers who have seen most of the mistakes already made at least once. We have firefighters with many many years of experience, and others that, well, don’t. All are welcome here in The Nation. We welcome your input, just as we hope that you learn from the experiences of others.

Personally, I have 31 years service to the local fire department. I have held most line officer positions, and some administrative as well. Now part of the Old Guard so to speak, I am less inclined to go charging into where others are trying to escape. Instead, I choose to monitor the fire scene closely, attempting to ensure the safety of all on the fire scene.

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Hey Judi, Just wanted to say "Hi" from over in Waconia.

Hey Judi, I have heard of the Northstar Women's Association, but don't know much about them. I just saw a posting at Bloomington Station regarding the Women's Expo on May 31st at the South Metro Tower. I'm curious, but I have my weekend shift that day, so wouldn't make it out. do you know where I can get some more info? Both for the expo (maybe next year?) and the Northstar group? I think they are Eden Prairie based, so maybe you know? Thanks, Megan

Judi, Thanks for the info. I checked out the site and am really excited to see all the training information, which I will try to take advantage of. I might have to check into joining, are you a member yourself? I have not had the privelege to meet Kim yet, but I am excited that someone such as herself decided to start an assoc. so close to home for us. Talk to you soon.

Waconia is a small volunteer dept of 34 members. We are also quickly becoming a very young dept. as many veteran FFs are retiring and with new ppl starting. I got on in Dec. 06 and already there are six ppl below me. We get paid for calls that we make, but not for trning, comm. service, etc. Some of the higher positions such as Chief, Asst Chief receive a very small payment for their work, something like $1,000/yr. Some of the obstacles that we are facing are ppl not wanting to train, go to schools, do anything extra. We have leadership positions open in our dept because we don't have enough depth or ppl who are/feel qualified to step into them. Lack of comraderie is also an obstacle. What's EP like?

Megan,
I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to work for Eden Prairie.
I find that this department is extremely supportive, positive, fantastic weekly trainings and all around really good people.
We really are a family.
We have 4 stations and 1 chief and 4? assistant chiefs. I could be wrong. We have fulltime fire investigators and fire marshall and one support staff person.
We are paid on call but do get paid for trainings and extra details too.
If you ever get in the area, let me know!
Safe-
Judi

Judi, we have not had a live burn in a while. I think the last one that you are thinking of, Kim was there to take pics? I work as a Paramedic for Allina. The northern territory covers from Roseville up to Anoka and from Coon Rapids over to Vadnais Heights. The southern territory covers from Sand Creek Twnshp up to Bloomington and from Jordan over to Prior Lake. In the south, our Bloomington area butts right up next to the Eden Prairie area and we sometimes do mutual aid or go on calls together if they are on the line. I am still on my 2nd person probie period but I am about to be finished soon. We can have riders once off probation. Asst. Chief Morse is a pretty good guy. Did you meet at the convention? I was on shift and my partner said that we could maybe head up that way, but then we started off our shift with our first peds arrest and things didn't go as planned.

I reeeeeaaallly want to go to CAFS trng on the 16th but can't find anyone to switch with me at work.

CAFS is compressed air foam system. Many of our drivers/operators don't even know how to run it. Its funny to watch them try to read the directions and get it set up. I wanted to take it so that we would have more ppl familiar with it. We hardly ever run foam and we should be running it on almost everything. We have old foam at the station from 1989! It was on the 14th in Chaska, sponsored by NSWFA.

Hey Judi, welcome to the club. Keep smiling and stay safe.

Hi Judi! Greetings from south of the river!