As a fellow hazmatter... does your state / department support toxmedics? I've been really enjoying reading your blogs and how you deal with things. You are good people. My personal goal with the FFN is to get this program on board for all of us. Not just a few states, hence me writing you. At this point, I don't know who has what but conducting basic research at this point, getting copies of SOG's, drug box lists, training curriculums and equipment seems to be the right place to start. I hope you can help me out. Fraternally, Mike Schlags from Santa Barbara

An Eminem reference? Man, you are so not FOGIES material with that.

Thanks...the more the Merrier!

Hey Mike,
Friday can't come soon enough, can't wait to get to RI. The girls are so excited and so are we...

We miss you too Miguel....

can't wait to see you guys in Rhode Island. I had a really rough day yesterday--had some pretty bad news on my end, but I'll tell you in person when I see you. Nothing I want to post here.
xo
Mel

We have a pretty much same design for our HazMat Tech cert class shirt. Ours reads 4 weeks of Hell on the back of it and has a pretty cool Technician logo on the front of it. Our t-shirt designer tripped it out some and it came out cool.

Hey 913 I like your HazMat T design that you have up. Did you guys make that logo?

beauty!!!!!!

Oh, my eyes.... my eyes...

Just wont to say hi.

Dear Sir. I am sure this message will leave you skeptical. I cannot do anything about that. Please, just read it to the end.
I want to apologize to you for anything I wrote or did that you found offensive or upsetting. Last night, while at work, I was born again in Jesus Christ. I feel a strong need to make amends to anyone I have wronged or offended in any way, thus the purpose for this message. I am not asking for anything from you. God bless you. Jim

I posted on your Critical RIT post. Feel free to email or call me if youhave any questions. Bill

FETC
www.fetcservices.com

Friend request accepted. Don't put me on too tall of a pedestal. I'm just an old firefighter that's learned how to banter at the kitchen table and is sick and tired of going to LODD funerals.
I also never get tired of learning, and of the effort to discovery better ways to do things through the creative application of devil's advocacy.

Why can't you believe that you were commenting on my issue at my blog? Just kinda venting.

Mick is the NFA, but the other two shifts have been running most of the fires. I just happed to be a lot closer to the working fire than the on-duty battalion chief the other day. We had the critique today, and no one was fired or executed, so we must have done OK.

We have an excellent departmnt here. I feel fortunate to be a part of it, and even more fortunate that I'm a chief officer in the organization.

Working with Mick is an honor. We see eye to eye on the important stuff and on most other things. We manage to have some fun, too.

Take care,
Ben

what Ted said....


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saaaay.....notice we're BOTH legends in our mind?

Hey Mike,
Got your text--no good...bad timing.
I'll yelp at ya in Yahoo later.

Hey, was reading a comment you left about Jr Firefighters and I totaly agree with you, I was an Explorer for 4 years with my department and loved every minute of it because our department allows our Explorers to do lots of things. Our Explorers are not just Go-Fors, they are setting up hydrants, pulling supply lines, setting up our rual water supply and many other exterior scene operations. I know that from experience that the if I didn't have these great experiences I don't know if I would love the job as much as I do now.