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Type of Organization: Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer

Job Function: Firefighter

Years in Fire/EMS:: really since 2006 but its been all my life

Primary Fire/EMS Department:: Reisterstown

Years With Department/Agency: since 2009

Dept. Web Site:: http://www.rvfc.org

Other Past or Current Departments and Organizations: Mineral Springs, Belews Creek both in NC

My Training:: FF1
Hazmat awareness and operations
ICS 100, 200, 700 and 800
RT-VMR
Large Animal Technical Rescue

About Me:: I am a truckie at heart! I love every bit to extrication to hazmat to rope rescue etc.

Relationship Status:: Single

Why I Joined Fire/EMS: Well its really in my blood. I actually had wanted to be a police officer so I was preparing my life for that and thought I could ride with my step dad on a fire truck and spend more time with him so i joined WSFD explorers not knowing I couldnt ride with family. My dad set me up to ride at our downtown station on Truck 1 with Capt. Bottoms and the first call was a reported house fire which was at 7:15am and I soon fell in love.

Now, that is my career path and will be going and startin my certifications and degrees up there

Why I Love Fire/EMS: I help people anyway that I can

Top Issues Facing Responders:: The danger of having to respond first on most everything

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Where is a good fire department to gt hired at?

Posted on July 14, 2010 at 2:32pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Any suggestions?

Running sirens at night

Posted on October 25, 2009 at 12:43pm 14 Comments 0 Likes

As everyone knows the law if you are in a fire dept vehicle responding emergency traffic to a call if you have your lights on you much have your siren on.

It is there emergency and plus its our safety.

One of my fellow members stopped me last night responding to a apt fire saying it is a curtious thing that we do

I respect his arguement although I am worried about my safety and my ass getting there and not worried about waking a whole neighborhood up

I was taught… Continue

All Firemen are brothers and sisters

Posted on January 18, 2009 at 9:56am 5 Comments 0 Likes

Everyone says all firemen are brothers and sisters. No matter where your from and no matter what state or department you come from you can always just walk into a firehouse in another state and just start talking to one another whether it be a volunteer dept or a career dept. Now to be honest I think it dont even matter if you are a rank of a junior firemen/ explorer you still are part of a family

I NEED HElP

Posted on April 12, 2008 at 12:09am 3 Comments 0 Likes

hey i got this project and i need as much info on the history of firefighting as possible the catch is i got to have it done my the April 15th and it has to be 6pages of info

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At 2:02pm on January 21, 2010, Jim said…: Hi Sam, Hope you are doing well. Doreen ask me to tell you hello. Scottie showed me the million dollor fire you were at recently. I bet it was a beautiful place before the fire. Hope you are learning alot and will stay intouch. Good luck with school. Jim