arringnl
32 Years Experience
Goose Creek, SC
Male, 54
Currently serving Jasper County Fire Rescue in south Carolina along with Charleston County EMS.
We operate 2 stations, soon to be three next year.
St. 1 Staffing is 10 guys- 1 Captain, 1 Engineer, 3 Paramedics and 5 FF EMT's
St. 1 mans a 4 man Engine Co, 4 Man Rescue Company and an ALS Medic unit with 2, They also operate a Squad that takes 1 man off each unit to handle additional EMS calls.
St. 2 1 Captain, 1 Engineer, 1 Paramedic and 1 FF EMT.
We run over 4000 calls a year with an average of 10 calls a day for a community of 36,000 people. We handle Fire/EMS/Rescue.
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Quite a bit so we know what to use on what type of fires. For instance we do not apply water to flammable metals, or water to flammable gases. Sometimes we use dry chemical extinguishers on materials to remove the chemical reaction. Fires go out due to either removing oxygen(difficult), cooling, burns out of fuel plain and simple or intefferring with the chemical chain reaction such as dry chemical does.
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Engine first so you can get the knowledge of how the environment in a structure fire really is which is no where close to what you go through the academy.
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No, believe it or not they sell them at the FDNY store in New York not to far from Time Square.
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Flight Attendant
What's the scariest flight you've ever been on?
Radio program/music director
Just how good of a radio host do you think Howard Stern is?
Lifeguard
Are most public pools just gross lakes of bodily fluids?
We use "Entrapped patients"
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No, very rightfully to be concerned. Age is a factor but also you are using windows with a specifically designed component that has been altered.
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By modern standards that would be a yes to it being a fire hazard.
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