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Tiffanie Pettis

32, Female

Candor, NY

United States

Profile Information:

Type of Organization: Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer
Job Function: Firefighter, Other
Years in Fire/EMS:: a little over a year officially
Primary Fire/EMS Department:: Candor Volunteer Fire Dept.
Years With Department/Agency: officially over a year
Dept. Web Site:: http://candorfire.org
My Training:: scene support. i just finnished fire fighter 1 in july... waiting for survival in RIT to start. currently in accident victim extrication rescue training, next up is rescue tech basic, more interior training and then the pheonix womans conference!
About Me:: i am deeply involved in the fire service. it has been my whole life since i was born. my dad has held every office in our whole department for atleast one term except for secretary, so i have always been kind of involved in things. All the guys there now have known me forever and i have grown up close to all of them so my firefigting family is more close and almost like an actual family than what some people could experiance. I am a drummer and i love art and designing. I plan to go to Corning Community Collage for fire science and then transfer to a university to get a primary degree in interior design with a focus on green studies. After and throughout collage i still plan to keep involved with the fire service.
Day Job:: Candor high school
Relationship Status:: In a Relationship
Why I Joined Fire/EMS: i grew up as a fire house kid, it was just in my blood to join as soon as i could. i love helping and being a volunteer! firefighting isnt a hobby for me it is a life style and all the guys are my family.
Why I Love Fire/EMS: it is a great experiance! a great family and alot of fun! i love the thrill of going on those calls at 2 in the morning and the feeling you get when you know you helped someone, and maybe even save a life

Comment Wall:

Timothy Overly

Not much new, had a boat fire though!! Boat fully involved, in a parking lot. Good thing they got it out of the garage before we got there. Not too exciting, but my photo still made the paper. Are you taking the Rescue Tech?

Jul 29, 2009
Justin Scott

lol we all can be ditsy from time to time. i went to tc3 and got signed up for the emt class that starts soon, cant wait for that to be done and over with

Jul 29, 2009
Justin Scott

god i hate ppl who are slow getting dressed. we had a structure fire and i was 2nd to the station. my driver took so long getting dressed that when an asstiant chief showed up i hopped out to see wtf was going on, wouldent u know as soon as i hopped out the engine he hopped in and took off without me. i had to ride the tanker to the scene but because he took forever we ended up being 2nd in company to a fire about a mile and half from the station. lets just say he got a but chewing for waiting and taking so long.

Aug 1, 2009
FETC

Welcome to FFN, good looking page you got here Tiffanie.

Stay safe,
FETC

Aug 2, 2009
Jake Burns

hey i see your going to ccc ever think about the bunker program in montour

Aug 2, 2009
Jake Burns

hey firefighting is a normal perfession haha jk nut yea pretty much the program allows firefighter to go to ccc and the fire accademy while doind 15 hrs of service around the fire house amd run calls its not bad i did it myself before i got hired in corning then moved up here but if you would like to learn more let me know your not to far away to come take a tour and what not

Aug 3, 2009
Jake Burns

yea i understand that im 4th generation but yea if your interested let me know and we can set something up

Aug 4, 2009
Jake Burns

well probally the weekends would be best not this weekend thou cause we have to cover the track for nascar but any other would be good illhave the chief come down and we can show you around not a big deal bring your gear to we seem to be on a busy spell rite now so you can hop in and do some work but you pick a couple of dates and let me know and we can set something up

Aug 4, 2009
Ryan Cullen

its good nothing good lately same old BS calls. where in NY are you exactly?

Aug 4, 2009
Justin Scott

iv been pertty good, not any good calls latley, all just ems. glad they decided to get ya some new gear.... now if only they can get ya some gloves that fit to go along with it. so how u been? ne good ones down your way?

Aug 4, 2009
Ryan Cullen

oh ok your about 2-3 hrs from me im from Westchester county 20 mins outside of the bronx line

Aug 4, 2009
Ryan Cullen

yea if ur ever in the NYC area u can text me or something im in syracuse like once a year for the NYSHS football chanpionships and my friend plays for Ithaca so i go up for his games alot

Aug 4, 2009
Ryan Cullen

oh ok cool... my #'s 914-906-0766... text me sometime if ya want

Aug 5, 2009
Paul Dudan

yea it looks even better now jacked up and covered in mud

Aug 6, 2009
Paul Dudan

WOW.a girls thats beautiful and knows her pick ups lol

Aug 6, 2009
Justin Scott

so how did u get this new nickname?

Aug 6, 2009
Jamie Buice

thank you :)

Aug 8, 2009
Rick K.

Thank You !!!

Aug 8, 2009
Theresa Johnson

preety good. u?

Aug 9, 2009
Rick K.

well doing pretty good down here i'm in southern missouri !! Been very hot here so that means we are about due for a nasty storm! We have pretty bad one's here! It comes out of oaklahoma and hits southern missouri bad !!

Aug 9, 2009
Rick K.

well thats the way things work out you get something when u have something planned !! oh-well no biggie it happens or it doesnt !

Aug 9, 2009
Justin Scott

so were yall busy down your way with the wounderful weather we had today?

Aug 9, 2009
Jake Burns

either or sunday during the day would probally be best thou your talking next weekend thou

Aug 9, 2009
Rick K.

well thats the way it usually goes !! get storms and the runs begin ! we use to sit back and listen to all the city runs during storms and say glad thats not us! being county f.d. it came in streaks if we had a lot of calls but there were times when we had several and been there also back in and start taking off gear and there goes the tone! dang i love it!!!!!

Aug 11, 2009
Rick K.

well it's fun to listen and laugh because there runnin there butt off but then we get bit and go on some of the dummest calls and sit there and wait all night for the power company or who ever but oh its part of the job !!

Aug 11, 2009
Justin Scott

lol with all that bad weather we didnt get a single call. lol lansing (which is next to us, they cover the area by the mall in ithaca) had a ton of calls including like 4 structure fires within 48 hours but my pager didnt go off once. we did have a call last night after the rain stopped for a mva, but it wasent good it was just the guy that lives next door to me in the ditch. tow truck was called before ne 1. we only responded our rescue truck to get a patient sign off for the ambulance.

Aug 11, 2009
Rick K.

Been there done that lol !! we were a small dept. and were a combination dept. so if we were off duty and the guy's got a call we would either go to scene or station.we all had 2 sets of gear so thats what we did !

Aug 11, 2009
Justin Scott

lol maybe ill get to break in my new gear then, but my luck it will stay just south of us over your neck of the woods

Aug 11, 2009
Justin Scott

wish it would storm already its hotter than hell and i got stuck moving stuff all day, it sucks working at a college because they have me doing everything but my regular job.

Aug 12, 2009
wayne rudolph

hi tiffaine i will send it out some time next week be safe wayne

Aug 15, 2009
Justin Scott

hey how are things down ur way? i was down that way today for a little bit.

Aug 16, 2009
Justin Scott

sounds like fun. of course it had to happen today when it was so damn hot out. weve been busy up here with non stop ems calls, except yesterday it was non stop fire alarms or the "i smell smoke" calls.

Aug 17, 2009
Justin Scott

cool, u know what channel? dont know if u guys ever run mutual aid to danby or west danby but i know they had a structer today, heard em page for more manpower

Aug 18, 2009
Jennifer Nance

Hey. Things is nc are kinda slow.
haha i say that but here lately my station has ran some calls. haha. too many structures fires. =( how are things up there?

Aug 20, 2009
Justin Scott

so last night i suprised my chief as well as other town of dryden chiefs. we had out town training (there are 5 depts in the town of dryden)(dryden,etna,freeville, McClane, and varna) well they put me as ic for a mock structer fire and i suprised them big time. did better than most of the capts and a few asst chiefs on being ic. so after training chief comes up to me and is like "its not offical, but next year ill probly be nominating you for an officer slot, eather capt or 4th asst chief, since u seem to know more than most of the officers in the town and i always see u helping other ppl when they have questions" so guess ill see what happens in nov.

Aug 20, 2009
Justin Scott

oh and i was the only ic during our scenarios that actually let the truck company do what there sapost to. all the other ic's just had them gain entry to the building and vent. i was the only one to assign them to search and rescue as well as the above. as well as i was the only one to have the 2nd due engine company just stand by as fast team awell.

Aug 20, 2009
Justin Scott

ohh yeah since u were on the news your buying the drinks right?>haha

Aug 20, 2009
Justin Scott

lol. i got stuck with a dumb ass too. last night we had a ems call. so i hop in the rescue truck and since im the first certified driver there i hop in and pull out and hit the status botton saying im waiting for a crew (here in tompkins county we dont mark up on the radio responding and on scene we just push a botton that sends it to dispatch) so a crew shows and we respond. i dont know where this street is but the guy in the passanger seat says " i do" well we go down this road and the road we need is now were near. they he dosent want to talk to dispatch for a cross street. we finaly get there and no answer at the door. so i call dispatch and advise no answer at the residence. our wounderfull dispatcher goes "ohh the ambulance has been there and gone" turns out dispatch never told us and the guy in the officers seat was reading the map book wrong. matter of fact he was on the wrong page. talk about a fucked up call.

Aug 25, 2009