My Firefighter Nation
Jim
Male
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
United States
Profile Information:
- Type of Organization
- EMS/Rescue Squad - Volunteer
- Job Function
- Administrative Staff / Team Member
- Years in Fire/EMS:
- 35
- Primary Fire/EMS Department:
- Carolina Rescue and EMT
- Years With Department/Agency
- 5
- Other Past or Current Departments and Organizations
- Lake Junaluska FD
Beesons Crossroads FD
South Fork FD
Cooleemee FD (retired)
Smith Reynolds Airport FD
Forsyth Rescue Squad
Winston-Salem Rescue Squad
Cooleemee PD
Alleghany Co SO
Forsyth Co SO
Winston-Salem PD - My Training:
- Instructor for 14 years: IFSAC Level II, NFPA 1001 Firefighter I & II, NFPA 1006-Technical Rescuer, Vehicle and Machinery Rescue Specialty, Ropes Specialty; Structural Collapse Specialty, Confined Space Rescue Specialty, Trench Collapse Rescue Specialty, Agricultural Specialty; Farmedic, Emergency Rescue Technician, Rescue Systems I and II (Light and Heavy Structural Collapse), Citizen’s Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Teen CERT, Campus CERT, CERT TTT Instructor and AgriSafe for the Agromidicine Institute at East Carolina University.
Certified: Firefighter II, Emergency Rescue Technician, SARTECH 3, Haz-Mat Ops, Office of Domestic Preparedness WMD NBC Ops/ Command, Structural Collapse Technician- FEMA USAR, Collapse Structural Specialist- NASA USAR; former Emergency Medical Technician for 30 years - About Me:
- Experience: Charter Member of N C Task Force-1, Urban Search and Rescue Team (NC EM TF-4), former Logistics’ Manager for NC TF-1, and a line officer with Forsyth Rescue Squad; Deployed to Hurricane Floyd and the Tornado in Stoneville, NC; served on the NFPA 1006 Rescue Technician Validation Committee in NC, and a Firefighter with the Cooleemee FD. Also a Technical Rescue Advisor for the Carolina RS and fourteen years in law enforcement as a Deputy Sheriff and an Assistant Chief of Police.
- Day Job:
- Fire / Rescue Instructor
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- Facebook or Other Online Profile:
- http://MySpace: rsqinstructor Yahoo: rescuehead99 or techrescue@ear...
- Why I Joined Fire/EMS
- Got interested as a teenager, loved learning new things, and working with my hands. As I learned and understood how important serving others was, I really got excited. This is now the reason I still am involved and it has become a big part of my life.
- Why I Love Fire/EMS
- Events are constantly changing, usually never the exact same twice. Training and learning new things from instructors and students alike. Enjoy teaching students,especially new brothers and sisters to the fire service.
- Top Issues Facing Responders:
- 1. 400 years of heritage impeded by progress.
2. This is my sandbox, and you cann't play in it ?
3. New firefighters being told that "you know that department up the road... they don't have crap, know crap, or cann't do crap.. why would we want to train with them ?
4. TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN !!!
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