so today i go down to the station to a medical call right, i ended up just on standby. so about 2 mins after i got there got a call for a car fire, so its me and another recruit and the district cheif, fire cheif, and the captan. so me and john get on the engine with the 2 cheifs and the capton took the duty rig. got up there told us to pull the preconnect, it was a fully involved car fire. it was a dodge ram 2500 so a pretty good sized pickup, so i pulled the line flaked it out and i had the… Continue

my name is dustin clark iam 18 years old a firefighter now at the estacada fire dept in oregon and almost have my emt basic cert i think iam doing good cause there is no one as young as me in the dept or in my emt class i think iam a head of the gam and i want to no if i should slow down and just take my time to get my paramedic or just go for it and get it all over with..thanks i just want some more advise from some more exp people in this great online communtity thanks again all:)