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Where's your "Proper" PPE ?!?!?!?
(This is a question I asked in one of the wildland groups, but thought I'd share with everyone...)
Can anyone explain to me why it seems the mid-west and east coasters have such a hard time wearing the proper wildland ppe on fires? I am forever seeing pitures of various levels of dress; from "full bunkers" all the way down to levis and t-shirt...... At the very least, WHERE IS YOUR SHELTER!!!! Now don't get me wrong, I see it on the west coast as well (however, not very often) and I understand that there are A LOT more volunteer dept's over there and most have little to no budget and some require members to buy their own gear. But come-on!!! We need to be safe out there. And please don't get me started on some structural dept's mind set reguarding wildland firefighting......GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Can anyone explain to me why it seems the mid-west and east coasters have such a hard time wearing the proper wildland ppe on fires? I am forever seeing pitures of various levels of dress; from "full bunkers" all the way down to levis and t-shirt...... At the very least, WHERE IS YOUR SHELTER!!!! Now don't get me wrong, I see it on the west coast as well (however, not very often) and I understand that there are A LOT more volunteer dept's over there and most have little to no budget and some require members to buy their own gear. But come-on!!! We need to be safe out there. And please don't get me started on some structural dept's mind set reguarding wildland firefighting......GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Jim Conrad on
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Good presentation though, right?
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Permalink Reply by DAVID GONZALEZ on
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California we have very strick rules of what we can wear. http://www.sccfd.org/clothing_wildland.html
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