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Peter Lupkowski
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- Wellsboro, PA
- United States
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More EMS Than Fire? I'm Shocked!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Cody W. Nelson Sep 6, 2009. 14 Replies 0 Likes
Welcome to Firetown, USA
Profile Information
- Type of Organization
- Fire/Rescue Department - Volunteer
- Job Function
- Safety Officer
- Years in Fire/EMS:
- Since (gulp) 1977
- Primary Fire/EMS Department:
- Wellsboro, PA
- Years With Department/Agency
- Since 1986
- Dept. Web Site:
- http://wellsborofire.com
- Web Site:
- http://wellsboroems.com
- Other Past or Current Departments and Organizations
- Blossburg, PA
SSMH ALS
- My Training:
- Pro Board FF-1, EMT-Instr, Haz Mat Tech, BS, MHA, NHA
- About Me:
- Complex problems have simple easy to understand wrong answers.
- Day Job:
- Wait, people are awake during the day?
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- Why I Joined Fire/EMS
- Heritage in service. Help local community. Invincibility Complex
- Why I Love Fire/EMS
- Satisfaction
- Top Issues Facing Responders:
- A service wide inability to cogently express our message of staffing equals safety, efficiency and loss reduction.
Better a thousand times careful than once dead- proverb
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein Peter Lupkowski's Photos
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My Knee Hurts Now
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Peter Lupkowski's Blog
Is It a Full Moon?
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 9:01am 2 Comments 0 Likes
The belief in Fate, a divine hand, or just plain bad luck is encouraged and promoted by our understanding that call volume has some association with innocuous universal truths. Friday the Thirteenth is a widely held bad luck…
Continue Not so sweet "Sound of Music!"
Posted on July 9, 2010 at 10:13am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Doe, a deer a female deer
Ray, the medic on the call
Me, the name I call myself
FA, the start of what was said….
SO, what will my penance be?
LA, it was the newest in the fleet!
TI, it’s technically not my…
ContinueDichotomy
Posted on June 10, 2010 at 12:38pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I am roundly criticized for not yelling and generally being a wet blanket for exciting fun stuff. My outward form is quiet and thoughtful. It’s my form of the typical command presence. Inside however I am a maze of flashing lights and dichotomy. That’s the part I want to share, the other half.
Here’s the way my internal “dad psyche” works. I live at threat level “blue” for guarded, as in the Homeland Security Advisory System. The sound of our tone for an MVA with injuries interrupts my… Continue
Here’s the way my internal “dad psyche” works. I live at threat level “blue” for guarded, as in the Homeland Security Advisory System. The sound of our tone for an MVA with injuries interrupts my… Continue
IAFF Announces New Volunteer Initiative with NVFC
Posted on April 1, 2010 at 9:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Fire Rescue Magazine reported today that Harold Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Firefighters met with representatives of the National Volunteer Firefighters Council at IAFF Local 4799 Fallbrook International Airport, PA to announce a new union initiative.…
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"Dad, we have no power."
Posted on June 23, 2009 at 3:58pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Bear with me on this one. I am at work. My wife is at work. My children are at home. Here in lies the problem. Let me summarize the last 4,327,953 phone calls from home. Keep in mind I get a smaller percentage of them than my saintly wife receives, and when I am actually home my children gravitate to any other room in the home to avoid the “can you help me with this” question that I usually come up with as I see them idle in front of the, pick an appliance, TV, computer, microwave,… Continue
Last Responder not First Responder
Posted on November 21, 2008 at 12:31pm 10 Comments 0 Likes
Recently the Wellsboro Fire Department was notified that a local business was removing an existing fire sprinkler system during a significant remodeling effort. Naturally the Fire Chief called to express his, and the department’s, disappointment and offer some suggestions about retaining the operating system. Principally he mentioned that there has never been a multiple loss of life in a fully sprinklered building and that fire sprinklers are widely recognized as the single most effective… Continue
Nomex Skin Would Help
Posted on August 21, 2008 at 2:07pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Isn’t it always like this: We were having a quiet night and preparing to head home when things began to pick up. We are in and out of this building regularly and think nothing of it because it is at the end of the business district, well hydranted, and fully sprinklered. No signs of problems from the outside so we head into the kitchen to see and ask what’s going on there.
I was the second firefighter into the kitchen area backing up one of our newer guys. There was a light smell of… Continue
I was the second firefighter into the kitchen area backing up one of our newer guys. There was a light smell of… Continue
Another night of funnel cakes
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 11:29pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
We’ve had an exceptionally busy month and it’s only half over. The capper to that is this is the Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival Celebration in our town. A week of runs. bikes, parades, carnivals, car races, and yes firemen. We get 50 or 60 thousand extra tourists in our first due and a concurrent increase in calls to boot. The nice thing is that we staff the station for visitor tours and have extra folks rotating in for stand bys and relief. I’ve met and compared notes with safety officers… Continue
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I was always taught protect personnel first. If the sprinklers are working, and designed/installed properly, they are doing their thing with the right amount of water. Boosting the pressure to the system is a good thing, but not absolutely crucial. Standpipes, on the other hand, particularly when they have a separate connection, may be dry. Nothing worse then getting to the fire floor, hooking up to the standpipe outlet, opening the valve, and getting nothing out of it. Get water to your firefighters first, then boost the pressure to the sprinklers. At the end of the day, if the chauffeur is good and the connections are close anyway, there shouldn't be much time difference between completing both tasks. There may not be a "right" answer here, but that is what my preference is.
Greg
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