MRSA is nothing new, been dealing with it for years in the nursing homes!! If ya'll are like us, we go to those ALOT

 

this is the first i have heard of it, although i have been out of the EMS loop for 4 years.

 

Yeah MRSA is big here too. We had a big influx of asians here in the past couple of years so the TB is gettin really bad. Grandparents livin in their home, with their kids and grandchildren, just chillin out, spreadin TB to their family, which in turn spreads it to other people outside the house. Makes me sick!! haha get it!!! Oh, and we don't know they have it until the nurse lets us know at the hospital. Bunch of low life people.

 

MRSA, VRE, are pretty common in hospitals. We've all probably come into contact with it at some point in our careers. BSI and wash your hands, I don't really worry about it too much.

 

Well stated!!

 

thought I would bring this up again, got woken up at 5:00 this mornin and delivered my first baby. It was on the side of I-85 here in Georgia. it was fun, and nice to get woken up to something nice and not sad. yall be safe out there.

 

snapper do you remember the atlanta firefighter that was killed last year at a house fire? i'm thinking it was around october maybe. his name was stephen something. anyway the reason i was wondering was AFD invited a lot of departments to come to their critique of the fire and we had a few people go to it. AFD videoed it and i got to see it. if you didn't get to go to the critique and have an opportunity to watch the video do it. there is a lot of good information on it and i learned a good bit from it.

on another topic how many of y'all still burn houses for rookie burns? is most everybody just using a burn building now? we still use houses for our rookie burns but from what i have heard we are one of the few departments that do. me personally i don't really think that the burn buildings (especially the ones with the propane burners) are a good way to get rookies their first fire. its not realistic enough. what do y'all think?

 

Only burn buildings here, I agree, I think that an old house would be much more realistic.

 

yeah it was around thanksgiving, and I heard he got disoriented, the room flashed, and they found him 5 ft. from the door. it's sad that so many FF's have died so close to an exit. I didn't go to the critique, but would like to see it sometime.

We have a burn building at our academy. I can see where a burn building is good, cause rooks get to see the flames and feel the heat, but the buildings with the gas fires in them are just stupid. we load it up with pallets and wet straw. too many things that can go wrong in a house. plus we put so many recruits through our program that we wouldn't have enough houses to burn!!!

we've put about 40-60 recruits through this year so far.


I'm gettin kinda tired this afternoon. Workin on my 48 hr.(2nd shift) and it's at my regular station. hopefully we will get a fire goin sometime this shift. hopefully round 4, Get about 3rd on scene, go in and play, and then leave cause we have no hose on the ground.

 

Yeah, there is nothing like getting a job a couple hours before shift change, making one heck of a mess on the fire ground then getting releived on scene, especially when its our last shift.

We train daily in a few abandoned buildings running charged lines around and charging the place with fake smoke but thats it. All the probies do 8 weeks in house then go to the state academy for 12 weeks. It does not take to long for them to catch their first fire once they are back on apparatus.

Tim

 

IIRC the NFPA outlawed house burns for the purpose of interior fire attack training years ago. Mostly due to the inability to control how and when a house would collapse. They do allow special built burn buildings to simulate house fires.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm1WQbf8Xq0

Check this out, the operator is on the roof with the rest of his crew, A pump co. officer is at the controls of the aerial. I am not one to arm chair quarter back someone elses job, however, if you are on the turntable and your crew is on the roof under NO circumstances what so ever do you leave the controls!!!!!

Stay safe, Tim

 

thats terrible. im glad nobody was seriously injured or killed...i hope those boys lit the guy up that was working that ladder! its not like they are even complicated to operate. i also wonder if they re-certified that ladder after the heat exposure and all the abuse it recieved from banging against everything!!

isnt boston the dept that had the pierce ladder failure from stressing it against the building and it buckled

brett

 

Man, I found this section for the first time, TODAY. Looks like ya'll been doing this for a while now. I was thinking about tryimg to get something like this going awhile back. Now that I found it I will visit often. Happy Turkeyday. Ya'll be safe.

 

isnt boston the dept that had the pierce ladder failure from stressing it against the building and it buckled


Yes they were, the control box mounted on the turntable was to high for the station it was assigned to. If the driver did not have the piece parked perfectly in the center of the bay the control box would hit the overhead supports for the door. The investigation into the aerial failure concluded that the multiple stikes to the control box damaged the hydraulic valve body controls causing the ladder to slowly power itself down. The aerial in question was left extended over the roof line and unattended, so it powered itself down onto the roof and kept going till it failed.

As far as them retesting the aerial, who knows. I know we are required to and we have done it at my department, so I believe they must have.

Tim