I had my interview today. I think it went well, or at least better than the interviews at the other places. It was a panel of 3 interviewers, and they all seemed to like me, especially the director. So even if I don't get hired I at least don't feel like I made a fool of myself :)
There is supposed to be 10 people total interviewing, with 2 positions open. They said I should hear something the end of this week or beginning to middle of next week. If I do make it through, I have to pass a polygraph test, psychological test, physical, and drug test.

Hi Daniel,
My shirt size is large too.
My address:
8 The Heights
Melrose Park
Swords
Co. Dublin
Eire

I'm on transfer to another station at the moment but will be back in my own one on my next tour on Tuesday, so will send the shirt on Wednesday.
Any info your friend can source for me would be appreciated.
What about your Dept? What size of population and geographical area do you serve? We have about 1.5 million and 356 sq miles.
Take it easy,
Peter.

Hi Daniel,
I hate to break it to you but we don't have a County Dungarven. We have a couple of villages and one large town called Dungarvan and that's in County Waterford. I guess that's where you are refering to.
Waterford County is in the sunny south-east of the island and Dungarvan is a nice town. Check it out on Google Earth.
I will organise a shirt for you - do you want me to address it to you at the station or elsewhere?
I am a Station Officer (Captain) in Dublin Fire Brigade with 28 years service. We have about 900 full-time operational personnel spread over 4 watches in 12 stations. In some areas of the city we are regularly attacked by youths with stones, botles and other missiles and several firefighters have been injured. We usually wait for police back-up in these areas too. We also run paramedic ambulances and crews often get verbal and physical abuse while dealing with incidents. We do have reporting and counselling measures in place, but I feel that more could be done on the prevention of incidents through community liaison and education initiatives in certain areas.
Could you or someone in your dept provide me with statistics of incident numbers and types over the last few years and details of your reporting procedures, counselling and any other initiatives you might have in place. That's the sort of info I need for my research and I would be very grateful for any assistance you can give me.
Anyway, let me know where to send the shirt and I'll organise it for you.
Take care.
Regards,

Peter.

Hi Daniel,
Greetings from Ireland.
We no longer have separate patches on our shirts. They are either embroidered or printed on them now. I can send you a T-Shirt if you like. Let me know your size and I'll get the nearest I can for you. Let me know your postal address and we can exchange.
I see from your profile that you are interested in violence against crews. I am doing a research project at the moment to see if our measures and procedures meet international best practice in this area. I would love to hear how your department handles this too. Happy to discuss any other aspect of the job too.
I lok forward to hearing from you.
Regards,

Peter.

Thank you for the add Daniel.

Yes we can swap department patches. Send me your address in my inbox.

Thank you! I had to go turn in the personal history statement today. The secretary lady is really nice, and we were just sitting there talking, and she was like "YOU NEED TO MAKE BETTER EYE CONTACT." so then she told me a couple things that will help me out with the interview.
Yeah everybody at our department is like family. They'll come see me at Lifeway occasionally, and we go out to eat and stuff. It's only between 6 and 8 of us that are active. We've started having Christmas parties and exchanging presents. And we celebrate birthdays at our monthly meetings. Its fun :)

absolutely, my email is smckay@myseafood.com. We can exchange mailing info

stu

I hurt it on a sled wreck. I flipped over Peytons head once so I think thats when it happened. And yeah I think we are covered if something happens at work.
Your new station sounds amazing! Ours has 6 bays and a kitchen with a 20 year old stove haha. Last night at our meeting we feasted on frozen pizza and grocery store cake.
I got a call a few minutes ago that I have an interview with the city on march 15. This is the one that has 3 openings, where everything else I've interviewed for only had 1. So I'm hoping I might have a little better chance with this one :)

Ok, I will send to you two of my patch of the fire department and three police patch.
Total: five patches.
You get five patch too?

Will send two of my department patch.
I have two patches of the police for you, are very valuable, but for me no longer have value because they do not want to collect patch police.
Are you interested in them? Trade with you.
Police patches that I have are the elite troop ''BOPE'' and the elite troop the army brasilian ''COMANDOS''.

Hello good friend firefighter, you are interested in collecting patches?
I fireman here in Brazil and I have a patch to share with you.
Davi de Souza
Av: Manoel Florentino Machado, 62 Centro.
Quartel do Corpo de Bombeiros Militar.
Imbituba S/C Brasil
8878-000

Yeah, I made sure that was known haha. I figure the firefighter thing will be the best thing in my favor.
We have actually gotten a decent amount of snow this season...I remember complaining to you last year that we didn't get any :) We've gotten 10+ inches twice, and several small amounts. My friend from Florida was here for the first big one. It was her first time sledding so she was extremely excited. My dad brought over a tractor tire tube for us to sled on, so me, her, and my other friend peyton could all go down together. I injured my back in one of our wrecks and it hurt for about 2 weeks. But its ok now except on rare occasions.
Hope you enjoy shoveling snow!

Thanks Tim....please let me know when it arrives...I will do the same. Stay safe...stay low!!

Daniel

hi daniel ,
there was a message that said you never recieved my patch and you were dissapointed , so i sent you a patch . if it was a mess up and you have an extra to send that will be fine , however i do have one of youre depts patches already.

take care

rich

If I can find one of my F.D. patches laying around, I'll trade you for one of yours.

Hello Daniel

Sure.....
Send me your addrees to my e-mail, and we can trade:))
Petzmatius@gmail.com
Take care bro....

I used to collect patches, but I got too many of them with really no place to put them so I sold a bunch of them on eBay.

I hope so! I really think this is what I want to do as a career. Unless I get in there and can't handle it...but I think it would be a good combination of my love of computers and emergencies :) I think whats hurting me is the interviews...I was doing good in my county with the tests, until the interview, and all the neighboring county had was an interview. I haven't really had much job experience to be able to answer a lot of the questions they're asking...but I know that when God is ready for me to get a job, I'll get it.
Your vacation sounds exciting...any big plans?

I don´t have any patch now, but as soon as i get one i let you know

thank you!

Ignacio Mongillo
Viña del Mar fire dept. Chile