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I recently separated from active duty military, and am planning on continuing in the reserves. Can you be a fire fighter while being in the reserves? ( typically activated 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year).

Asked by William over 11 years ago

Yes you can it is against the law to prevent a reserve from doing their reserve time.

What is one area that interests you in regards to fire dynamics, and why?

Asked by fire almost 11 years ago

Flashover and backdrafts are the most interesting for me. Watching how thermal barriers are layered in the smoke is awesome. If you ever get the chance to go into a flashover simulator jump at the chance it is amazing how science and fire work together.

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So you wanna be a Firefighter?

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What is a better way to start at a volunteer FD if you want to be both a firefighter and an EMT? EMT and then becoming a Firefighter? Or becoming a firefighter first and than becoming an EMT?

Asked by Richard over 11 years ago

This is dependant on the type of department. If they are EMS strong than EMT first but generally firefighter training is conducted by the fire dept. I recommend getting EMT secondary since it is longer and shows a dedicated effort towards further employment.

1025 Votes

Are you able to tell how bad burns are on sight?Like could you immediately tell if a guy who's still alive is so badly burned that he's not going to make it, so you leave him where he is to go find possible survivors?

Asked by Tim about 11 years ago

That is what we call triaging when we have to sort out our patients when we have large amounts of patients as who is the most viable for recovering. Burn treatment has come along way in the last 20 yrs. We had people with 50% 3rd deg dying and now we are having pts 90% burned and living,

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What does it mean when you "package" a medical patient? Is this what you do after you treat someone and before you transport them to a hospital? What is involved with this? Thanks.

Asked by Joe over 11 years ago

It typically means we are either placing a pt in spinal precautions, backboard etc or simply getting a patient loaded into the medic unit for transport.

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Landlord sawed off 1" off the bottom of all our front doors that lead into a closed in hallway.We're not allowed to cover the gap so we don't get cold drafts and the neighbors cigarette smoke. Isn't the gap a backdraft hazard? Can't move to new place

Asked by christinee almost 11 years ago

The gap would not be a back draft hazards based on the fact that it is not creating a tight seal that would allow a building to get to the decay stage and get dangerous with the application of the fresh air. I am confused in the thinking behind this though. The one thing it does allow is smoke and carbon monoxide to move freely into your home from the hallway or other rooms. I would recommend that you contact your local fire department code enforcement officer to see if this action is legal. I would imagine that there may be a few other issues in question.

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My local church has recently conducted a fire drill during a service. They thought they did a good job but they obviously had no idea what they were doing? Are public institutions like this required to be knowledgable of proper fire safety procedures

Asked by Chris about 11 years ago

Public institutions are required generally to conducted fire drills especially involving children which those are required by law to have monthly fire drills.

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I recently separated from active duty military, and am planning on continuing in the reserves. Can you be a fire fighter while being in the reserves? ( typically activated 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year).

What is one area that interests you in regards to fire dynamics, and why?

So you wanna be a Firefighter?

What is a better way to start at a volunteer FD if you want to be both a firefighter and an EMT? EMT and then becoming a Firefighter? Or becoming a firefighter first and than becoming an EMT?

Are you able to tell how bad burns are on sight?Like could you immediately tell if a guy who's still alive is so badly burned that he's not going to make it, so you leave him where he is to go find possible survivors?

Also on Jobstr...

What does it mean when you "package" a medical patient? Is this what you do after you treat someone and before you transport them to a hospital? What is involved with this? Thanks.

Landlord sawed off 1" off the bottom of all our front doors that lead into a closed in hallway.We're not allowed to cover the gap so we don't get cold drafts and the neighbors cigarette smoke. Isn't the gap a backdraft hazard? Can't move to new place

My local church has recently conducted a fire drill during a service. They thought they did a good job but they obviously had no idea what they were doing? Are public institutions like this required to be knowledgable of proper fire safety procedures

Firefighter

Ask me anything!

What do YOU do?

I recently separated from active duty military, and am planning on continuing in the reserves. Can you be a fire fighter while being in the reserves? ( typically activated 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year).

What is one area that interests you in regards to fire dynamics, and why?

So you wanna be a Firefighter?

What is a better way to start at a volunteer FD if you want to be both a firefighter and an EMT? EMT and then becoming a Firefighter? Or becoming a firefighter first and than becoming an EMT?

Are you able to tell how bad burns are on sight?Like could you immediately tell if a guy who's still alive is so badly burned that he's not going to make it, so you leave him where he is to go find possible survivors?

Also on Jobstr...

What does it mean when you "package" a medical patient? Is this what you do after you treat someone and before you transport them to a hospital? What is involved with this? Thanks.

Landlord sawed off 1" off the bottom of all our front doors that lead into a closed in hallway.We're not allowed to cover the gap so we don't get cold drafts and the neighbors cigarette smoke. Isn't the gap a backdraft hazard? Can't move to new place

My local church has recently conducted a fire drill during a service. They thought they did a good job but they obviously had no idea what they were doing? Are public institutions like this required to be knowledgable of proper fire safety procedures

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