Moose

50, Male

Schoharie County, NY

United States

Profile Information:

Type of Organization
Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer
Job Function
Assistant or Deputy Chief
Years in Fire/EMS:
23
Primary Fire/EMS Department:
Carlisle Fire and Rescue
Years With Department/Agency
Three years
Other Past or Current Departments and Organizations
Northport Fire Department, Long Island, New York, 4 years
Richmondville Volunteer Fire Dept, New York, 11 years
Richmondville Volunteer Ambulance, New York, 11 years
Cobleskill Fire Dept, New York, 6 years.
My Training:
Major Certs; Firefighter II, National Fire Inspector I, Fire Protection Specialist, National Fire Investigator, Haz-Mat Technician Basic, NYS Health and Safety Officer, NYS Codes Enforcement Officer.
NYS Certificates;
Essentials, Initial Fire Attack, Fire Attack II, Ladder Co. Ops, Rescue Ops., Auto Extrication, Fire Behavior & Arson Awareness, Principles of Investigation, Electrical Fire Cause Determination I & II, Wildland Firefighting, Wildland Search & Rescue, Haz-Mat 1st Responder, Haz-Mat Technician, WMD; Awareness, WMD; Operations, Preparing for command, ICS:100, ICS: 200, NIMS: 700, NIMS: 701, NIMS: 703, Advanced Firefighter, Firefighter II, Firefighter Survival, Pump Operator, Incident Safety Officer, Building Construction Combustible, Sprinkler Systems Workshop, EMT-Critical Care (Expired), EMT-Basic (Expired), Garage Fire Seminar, Search and Rescue Seminar, Thats all I can remember...
About Me:
I have a 6 year old daughter named Isabella, and have been married now for almost 7 years. I love the fire service and all who respect it the way I do, and will be striving to bring back the standards of training and respect for senior members that it use to have, but somehow got misplaced...
But hey...If your daddy is chief and your last name has history in the dept you are safe for now. Bring back respect, and brotherhood...please.

I Believe...
That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything.
Day Job:
Fire Safety Rep. for the State of New York
Relationship Status:
Married
Why I Joined Fire/EMS
I joined the fire service to help those in need during times of disaster, even if its simply retrieving their family pictures from the wall of their burning home. Im here for whoever needs me. I dont need bars on my shirt or a different color helmet to make me have honor and pride in what I do.
Why I Love Fire/EMS
I live to make others happy, and help all who need it, and I love the training, brotherhood, and the feeling that I belong.
Top Issues Facing Responders:
I will probably be stoned to death for saying this but I feel passionately about it and maybe it will generate some support for this issue; I feel that Firefighter I & II should be State License's and need to be re-certified every 3-5 years like the NYS EMT license's. Not enough people refresh their training and its scary...VERY scary, to see guys who took "Essentials" 20+ years ago but have not attended any further or refresher training and feel they do not need to. THATS one of the top issues I feel in todays fire service.
Lack of training standards, volunteers with not enough time to train properly that get doctored through the system and end up being Chief at the age of 25. Lost Traditions, lack of respect of the elders and officers, Manpower issues, and equipment issues.

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  • larry cooke

    You have a right to post b/c you do the job but on your own time and experience some of the same situations. While a Firefighter I also on my days off as a psychologist and my last job was at the local VA as a therapist on the PTSD program. A comparison with your situation and the military situation is that the military has activated the reserves. The incident of PTSD w/career military is abt. 19% and incident with the reserves is 44%. You can extrapilate that to volunteers. The two different groups went in for different reasons. The career went in knowing they were going to war and the reserves didn't they would. PTSD is very common in the fire service. The important part is that PTSD is a normal reaction to abnormal or trauma events. 

    Jun 11, 2012

  • FETC

    Thanks Moose. Nice to meet you. If you are on Facebook search FETC Services and I have some training material on there as well.

     

    Bill Greenwood

    FETC Services

    www.fetcservices.com

     

    Jul 19, 2012

  • Emily Coonradt

    Your welcome and i hope you have a great day yourself and stay safe.

    Aug 15, 2012