arringnl
32 Years Experience
Goose Creek, SC
Male, 54
Currently serving Jasper County Fire Rescue in south Carolina along with Charleston County EMS.
Tricky Question. When we go through numerous courses we arevtaught many techniques that are changing as construction for instance changes. Fires back in the 1990's were occuring in houses where we were given more time to fight a fire because we had wood framing that was constructed with 2 inch nails but now we have Gusset Plates that are only penetrating the wood by a 1/4" set of prongs into the timber. This is done now for cost effectivess but it causes us to move away from the way we operated for years and have to extinguish fires faster now. When it comes to fire suppression OSHA has instituted regulations called "2 in 2 out". For every 2 firefighters that go into a structure there are 2 outside waiting for in case of the need of rescue. This has become textbook teaching now. But this isn't always realistic and at times has to be put to the wayside. Example, Rural volunteer fire dept. gets notified of a structure fire and upon arrival they find a person trapped. There is only 2 firefighters on the truck, do they wait for more help or do they risk it and go in with no one outside. Testbook correct no, reality yes. When it comes to firefighting there is no set time frame for fires to go out. The incident is continously fluid environment and we try to be safe but we have to use Risk Vs Gain concept and what may be right to you can be the wrong way to another.
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1, Ever since I was little I was drawn to a career in public service and with the fire service I don't usually have to deal with negative feelings from my patients unlike police officers and have been doing the job since I was 22.2. Long hours and times away from the family.3. To many to list from fires to chemicals to dangers working in traffic on incidents.4. Time and certifications and expeirence allows you to advance your career. We have Engineers instead of Sgts.5. Finish school and get your EMT and volunteer with your dept if they have volunteers.6. Taking care of others when they don't know who to call and we are able to take care of their problem.7. To many but probably bring a child back from drowning.8. We do everything from EMS to Fire and Rescue so everyone tries to maintain the same levels of expeirence. I am a supervisor so that puts a significant amount of responsibility on me.10. Increased budgets and decrease income, Also being able to recruit significantly trained individuals that will stay on the job.11. Maintenance, Training and personal projects but you can never gurantee what gets done baseed on call volume.
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Since there are not as many fires like in the past to keep your staffing levels departments also perform EMS services. by doing this it also brings revenue in. Some systems are still run out of hospitals or by a county or city. the idea of the fire dept is that we already have the ability for quick response but trained people so naturally it fit for many communities.
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