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Respect to these heroes 18 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Oh, and our gear started out as the old rubber trench coats and hip boots. Took my father, brother and about 5 others to get a county ESD set up to fund us getting good Morning Pride gear (brother was a vendor for Dooley Tackaberry). The ESD is where the funds came from that the chief & secretary were embezzling.
Anyway, if you think nomex only chairs, then your experience with being in a flashover is limited to youtube videos and Google images. My coat was melted at the shoulder straps to my air pack.
I want this to be a note of caution to everyone. Praise the professional, not the profession. It's not the job that makes someone a hero, it's how they DO their job. On a bell curve, my old dept is near the bottom; th ose in the picture, in the middle; HEROS ... are usually only called so... posthumously. Ain't that a damned shame.
Anyway, if you think nomex only chairs, then your experience with being in a flashover is limited to youtube videos and Google images. My coat was melted at the shoulder straps to my air pack.
I want this to be a note of caution to everyone. Praise the professional, not the profession. It's not the job that makes someone a hero, it's how they DO their job. On a bell curve, my old dept is near the bottom; th ose in the picture, in the middle; HEROS ... are usually only called so... posthumously. Ain't that a damned shame.
Respect to these heroes 18 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Chief was pump operator, me and 3 others responded, dept had 17 total members of which 4 regularly responded. My brother lives 50 miles away and only visited our parents on weekends, still made more calls than half the dept. This is a rural dept in central Texas.
As for experience, I've been out of firefighting for 10 years and still have more training than all of them combined. One of the Captains literally said on scene of a structure fire "see, this is what we need, more real world experience, we don't need to go to no training." To which I asked if he would volunteer his house to burn next; turned to the crowd on the street 20 ft away and told him to ask one of those people to die in a house fire so he could learn what nozzle pattern to use.
As for experience, I've been out of firefighting for 10 years and still have more training than all of them combined. One of the Captains literally said on scene of a structure fire "see, this is what we need, more real world experience, we don't need to go to no training." To which I asked if he would volunteer his house to burn next; turned to the crowd on the street 20 ft away and told him to ask one of those people to die in a house fire so he could learn what nozzle pattern to use.
Respect to these heroes 18 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
I was volunteer FD for 11 years, 1200+ calls. Started asking what chief and secretary were writing checks for and wouldn't tell us. $17,000 in 7 months. Started getting nozzle on structures without backup on line. Near breaking point was one fire, chief pushed a door open from outside, and someone slammed front door closed on his way out. Water shut off, I was alone, flashed over, coat shell liquified and set hard when I crawled out the window. They tried killing me 3 more times before I stopped coming to calls. No charges ever pressed, but they know better than to even speak to me now. Can't send a FF to Hell, I know the bouncer.
I feel the pain & smell the burntness through my phone!! 13 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Inflatable kiddie pool, small fountain pump to keep skin moist, zzquill and a fan blowing the AC all day & night.
Satan and Jesus role swapping 9 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
"... proven to be useless?"... Pesado... I hope you're not referring to the 20 ft wide test sections that people are walking around. The actual wall would be a bit more continuous.
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Someone had to say it 16 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
What are your qualifications to direct this movie?
I wrote, directed, produced, edited, co wrote the entire score for and personally coached 31 actors / actresses / stunt persons / animals / cyborgs in a student film that won 12 awards and grossed 300 times what it costs to make while entirely sustainable on wasted and employed 1,200 locals whom I'm now sponsoring for citizenship.
Sorry, we need to hire a female who has a lawyer.
I wrote, directed, produced, edited, co wrote the entire score for and personally coached 31 actors / actresses / stunt persons / animals / cyborgs in a student film that won 12 awards and grossed 300 times what it costs to make while entirely sustainable on wasted and employed 1,200 locals whom I'm now sponsoring for citizenship.
Sorry, we need to hire a female who has a lawyer.
I believe I can fly 7 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
The flaw in your "future" theory is this was built "a long time ago..". But I agree, fusion power, oxygen replenishment, slave labor, and it can travel to planets to resupply food, recycle water... payroll is biggest cost and you sell food to troops..
Nautilus gears 2 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
I have been looking for this exact motion for 15 years. What else are mechanical engineers hiding from the public? Frictionless bearings? Silent velcro? Transparent aluminium metal?
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Electric cars are too quiet 17 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Can I customize the sound, want 10,000 screaming monkeys or B-29 stratobomber on takeoff. Horn is quad 50 cal machine gun.
Best reason to go to Iceland 27 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Typical millenial... 60K per year in free money and assume you can't ALSO have a job.
Big hero 6 21 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Alexis Bledel "Rory" from Gilmore Girls is Hispanic... blue eyes no less from half Mexican - half Argentine
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Looks like she needs a gun too 14 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Wouldn't it be funny if the person she attacked was an off duty cop? Oh I could just see that right now.
Husbands payback on cheating wife 21 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Best part, her family will still like you and hate her since they saw it with their own eyes. None defending her saying "my sister is not a cheater, he's probably the one." ... of course... now it's a meme and worldwide that you knew beforehand. But still brilliant.
Do you agree? 7 comments
inspectora
· 5 years ago
Speaking on behalf of those with a rare medical allergy to hemp... I fully support non recreational hemo development. If it made good paper and bad highs, I'd support federal funding. Just. . Not around me, I break out in hives.
Jeremy Clarkson murders Big Willy 5 comments
Let's play spot the main character 11 comments
Sherlock and Watson 1 comments
This guy gets it 1 comments
Best was one structural fire, found a gun on the bed mopping up. Chief took it and was going to keep. Mentioned it to sheriff who was outside and he tried to deny it existed. Went to truck, got chief's coat off the door, gun in pocket. Sherriff now sends deputies to all their structure fires. Surprisingly, lot fewer house fires since that...