Hello Paulo and Welcome to FFN.....it's a great place for info and chat. Take care and stay safe.

Hello Paulo, Glad to see someone from Portugal, I think your the first, to join the FFN. I would love to have the opportunity to share training information with you and if possible, cooking recipes from menus that you cook at the fire station. If you are involved with WMD Hazmat Response, I have a lot of great information that we could compare notes against, seeing and learning from one another. This is the benefit of using the FFN as a networking tool. Welcome aboard! Mike from Santa Barbara, California, USA

Hallo Paulo glade to see you on the nation of brothers and sisters, would love to talk to anytime. I am from Southwest Virgina in the blue ridge mouintians. If you ever Roanoke area stop by we will go fishing and share a beer or two satye safe

Hey brother, your page is so interesting. Would like to be a friend and trade some thoughts. Stay safe out there.

Hello Paulo,

Bill here from New Hampshire, USA. Noticed the Massport ARFF photos on your page, I am an ARFF and Structural guy. Hope to exchange training ideas with you. Checkout my training webpage

FETC
www.fetcservices.com

I am the Assistant Fire Chief at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, NH. Does your fire department cover the airport?

Bill

hello Paulo want to say hi from upstate New York my e-mail is ul42commish@aol.com be safe oh i have new pic on my firepolice van see u "Chan"

Hello, Paulo

Such eloquent and beautiful words you speak. Nice to meet you.

Hello Paulo. I'm eager to hear much about Portugal.....how exciting. I'm over the recruiting division in Houston. Would love to exchange thoughts with you. Thanks for the welcome.

Hey Paulo, thanks for the invite. I have added you to my friends list. I'm sure I can't teach you anything you don't already know, but I look forward to corresponding with you. Stay safe, Chief.

By the way, I really like your choice of music.

What an honor it is for me to meet you sir, thank you for the comment. I have yet to travel to Europe but I hear many great things about it! Tell me about your department and the things that you do. Stay safe my friend and keep doing what you do.
-Stephen

7-28-08

Hello Paulo:

Thanks for writing! Please check out www.karenleefitzpatrick.com and the book about me: "Angel Promises." I fought the blazes of the deadly Thirtymile Fire.--Karen Lee

hey my name is lauran jones i am a junior firefighter at sequoyah volunteer fire department :]
i dont know as much at you do about fire fihgting but ill tell you
as much as i know about that :]
stay in touch -lauran-

thanks!!

Hello from Missouri, USA. Hows the weather in Portugal? I think this website is going to be a great way to trade ideas and help departments all over the world.

Thank you! I wish you well, I am sorry my reply took so long but i have been at a steam show with my 1904 CASE steam traction engine.

Greetings from Mexico Paulo, have a nice day!

Hi Chief Paulo,

Do you ever host or have fire training seminars or conventions?

Bill
FETC
www.fetcservices.com

Hey there! My name is Ron, im an Emgineer Firefighter with a department just south of St. Louis City!. Its nice to meet you and I would like to exchange ideas back and forth wehnever you have a chance. Tlak to you soon, and stay safe!

Not sure how yours have been run in the past but in the US, organizations put on Firefighter Safety Survival Seminars, they will pay the specialty instructors to come to your location and deliver classes. You would need to obtain a facility that would hold the total number of students you anticipate coming and any training props or facilities. around the US they charge the students, per person to attend which offsets the cost of running the program.
Most often times, the program will break even or make a little profit unless you are running a benefit seminar in which you are donating the proceeds to a specific cause.

Examples of some safety seminars have been training classes for up to 200 attendees on fire behavior, modern smoke, art of reading smoke, command and control classes, managing the mayday, or doing hands on with live burns, or rapid intervention and firefighter safety training in an acquired structure, a building that could be damaged during training not burned (slated for demo) and a conference hall for larger group sessions. I have been involved with a few in the US and look forward to assisting any way I can.

Hi Paulo,
I am looking forward to talking with you. I had an exchange student from Brasil living in my home for almost a year, he tried to teach me some Portugues, now I wish I had tried harder!! haha

That would be nice;)
I would like to know how different or the same the countries may do things

Nice to meet you (online) Paulo!

Thanks for the welcome Paulo. Most definately. It will be interexting to see how you guys operate in Portugal compared to here in the states. Take care and stay safe.

Mike

I just added a cool video on my FFN page that does a great job explaining why we need to always think about having an Incident Action Plan for emergency responses... I'm sure you will find a use for this. The title is IAP's and Backup Plans. Take care, Mike from Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Hey whats up?
That is pretty cool that you from Portugal, that is where my girlfriends parents are from.

I dont know where from and i would love to try all that stuff but she moved to florida.

I have tried some of the food, and the spices and these are much different from Irish/American food.

I just left a lengthy comment on one of the home page discussions focusing on the use of SCBA packs for wildland fires. Take a look at it and let me know what you think. Does it mirror your PPE usage?

I'm not sure if I shared with you one of my acronyms for handling an incident, designed to help me remember everything for the worst of incidents. Here it is:

S - Size Up (1st on scene company officer relays all of this to the Battalion Chief, potential is #1)
C - Command (done right away, starts the incident command structure for escalating incidents)
A - Assistance (get help coming asap, you can always send them back
R - Rescue (worth the risk? candle to moth scenario? loser?)
I - Isolation (hot, warm and cold zones for mci, hazmat or wmd incidents)
E - Evacuation (or shelter in place)

P - Person Responsible (find someone who knows the building, the area, the chemicals, etc.)
M - Material Identification (what do you have? can it mix with water? will it go boom? will it burn?)
S - Stage incoming equipment and always be safe!

Hope this helps you out and begins a long lasting conversation to share cool things with one another, as friends and professionals.

My best, Mike Schlags

Hello Paulo, from a fire/ rescue instructor in the State of North Carolina , USA. The city I am from is famous for RJ Reynolds Tobacco (Winstons and Salems) and Hanes underware. My teaching partner, that I travel with, is formerly a K9 Search Specialist with FEMA USAR Task Force 2 from Virginia Beach, Va outside of Washington DC. I see you have a wide back groud. Just sent you a request. Stay safe. Jim

I also see you have an interest in Dale Earnhardt. He lived in Concord , NC but the shop he drove for is here. I have a student in Helo OPS class tomorrow night that is a machinist for Richard Childress Racing (RCR)

How is everything in Portugal?

That sounds like a good plan. Stay Safe.

Thank you for the add. Hello from East Texas.

Thanks for the add!

how do you like Portugal?

stay safe,
~Marie

awesome :) maybe i'll have to go there sometime when I'm not a broke college student anymore :)

Boas... Luis Coelho, Bombeiros Municipais de Coruche, muito prazer...
Um abraço!

THanks

Thanks for the welcome and howdy from Georgia! Great pics by the way! Stay safe!

THANK YOU. HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY.

Hi there from Georgia. Would love to talk and compare. Take care and hope to hear from you soon. Donna

HEY BUEN DOMINGO .

SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO
ESPEREMOS Y PODAMOS ESTAR EN CONTACTO .

SALUDOS , MARCKO.

wow! thanks for the comment and u live pretty far away!! id love to compare and keep in touch no doubt! have a safe day and talk to you soon!

Hello from TEXAS. Be safe and have a blessed day.

Wow I see you went to New York to pay your respects as well. It just draws us there. I was speechless when I went from Baltimore to help with the funerals. May we never forget our fallen Brothers!! Mike, Baltimore City Maryland

Olá Paulo, tudo bem? Espero que sim, eu faço uma pequena colecção de emblemas, não tem por aí um que possa trocar comigo? Tenho um aqui de coruche para troca. Um abraço.

Thank you for the message on the tribute to all our fallen brothers and sisters. As a firefighter in New York State it means alot to hear that even in different countries these fucked up attacks are acknowledged.

Portugal, that might be a little far to ask you for mutual aid. I'm sorry that I haven't responded to anyone but as I've been explaining I was re-habing my hip after surgery and didn't think about to many other things. But now that I have returned to duty i will be around.

Buone Feste Natalizie

Alô Paulo...meu nome é Renato Brito, sou bombeiro industrial civil, presto serviços para a Petrobras, e estou a procura de amigos profissionais da área, preferencialmente de língua portuguesa pois, não domino bem o ingles. Tenho também um fórum de bombeiros. Se interessar acesse:

http://forumbombeiro14608.forums-free.com/

Abração

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