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Firefighter Intern: Day 9 and 10
May. 10th, 2018 08:26 pm"What makes firefighters courageous in my eyes isn't what they do day in and day out, it's what they are willing to do at any given moment." - Frank Viscuso
This week started out with me sorting out the departments' duty turnouts for expiring turnouts (not very glamorous) and then getting my firefighter fitness by running 2 miles. We went to visit a new sandwich shop in town to get a sense of the place and to preplan the floor plan - in case if we came back, it was smoke and fire-filled. For training I practiced throwing ladders in my turnouts and also practiced shutting off utilities, getting some more sign-offs on my taskbook. In the afternoon, we all did house chores (cleaning bathrooms, again - not very glamorous). After dinner, I managed to get my homework done on pre-fire planning for my class.
Soon it was bedtime, but then ... at 12:30 am we were toned out on a medical response for an older gentleman with a textbook stroke. I'm glad I got to see the classic symptoms of what a stroke looks like, and I'm glad for a smooth transport, we but got back to bed at 2:30, and I was wired. I actually feel asleep at 3:30 am, and then got up at 7 am for the day and the new shift. Today was a day of both daily and the monthly rig checks, including some basic familiarity with our new RIT pack, but more taskbook sign-offs didn't happen because we were constantly responding to different calls, including by a seizure at the middle school, and then a cardiac arrest at the local gas station and then a seizures/hypoxia call before dinner.
After we had settled down and I had a load of laundry in the drier ... another tone-out, this time for Engine 481 for a car that had lost control and ended up in a ditch. Both of us Interns ended up with hand-held traffic signs for about an hour for traffic management until we were cleared, good practice for what we will do many times on the Engine. *smile*
EDIT: and ... up again at 5:30 am to return to the same spot for a false alarm from a passerby who saw the same car in the ditch and called it in. *sigh*
This week started out with me sorting out the departments' duty turnouts for expiring turnouts (not very glamorous) and then getting my firefighter fitness by running 2 miles. We went to visit a new sandwich shop in town to get a sense of the place and to preplan the floor plan - in case if we came back, it was smoke and fire-filled. For training I practiced throwing ladders in my turnouts and also practiced shutting off utilities, getting some more sign-offs on my taskbook. In the afternoon, we all did house chores (cleaning bathrooms, again - not very glamorous). After dinner, I managed to get my homework done on pre-fire planning for my class.
Soon it was bedtime, but then ... at 12:30 am we were toned out on a medical response for an older gentleman with a textbook stroke. I'm glad I got to see the classic symptoms of what a stroke looks like, and I'm glad for a smooth transport, we but got back to bed at 2:30, and I was wired. I actually feel asleep at 3:30 am, and then got up at 7 am for the day and the new shift. Today was a day of both daily and the monthly rig checks, including some basic familiarity with our new RIT pack, but more taskbook sign-offs didn't happen because we were constantly responding to different calls, including by a seizure at the middle school, and then a cardiac arrest at the local gas station and then a seizures/hypoxia call before dinner.
After we had settled down and I had a load of laundry in the drier ... another tone-out, this time for Engine 481 for a car that had lost control and ended up in a ditch. Both of us Interns ended up with hand-held traffic signs for about an hour for traffic management until we were cleared, good practice for what we will do many times on the Engine. *smile*
EDIT: and ... up again at 5:30 am to return to the same spot for a false alarm from a passerby who saw the same car in the ditch and called it in. *sigh*
