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BLACKDOG

#60
October 29, 2007, 07:04:41 PM
Quote from: germ on October 29, 2007, 06:20:55 PM
He obviously doesn't have a sense of humor...I bet you could make it!

Erik

I know i could :yesnod: It'd just be a little narrower coming out :gap: 
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

Stocker

#61
October 29, 2007, 07:27:06 PM
Jason, I've been following this since it started in August.  It's great to hear how well you're doing!  Sounds like it's been quite a challenge but you've been more than up to it.  Congrats on getting halfway through, it's all downhill from here!   :biggthumpup:
My goal in life is to be as a good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

If you don't learn something every day, you're not paying attention.

BLACKDOG

#62
October 29, 2007, 08:36:04 PM
Quote from: Stocker on October 29, 2007, 07:27:06 PM
Jason, I've been following this since it started in August.  It's great to hear how well you're doing!  Sounds like it's been quite a challenge but you've been more than up to it.  Congrats on getting halfway through, it's all downhill from here!   :biggthumpup:

:thumbs: thanks stocker!!  It has indeed been a challenge, but I'm glad it has.  When you're pushed hard, you learn more about yourself, and more about what you can do :gap:  I thought I knew a lot before, and I thought I was in good physical shape before.  Its a whole different world when you realize that what you know and what you are physically capable of has a direct effect on people's well being.  kinda scary, but cool at the same time.  :gap:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

BLACKDOG

#63
November 13, 2007, 09:52:08 PM
Well, I'm getting there!!  After this week, I've got 6 weeks left in my academy, and as of today, I have 29 work days left :woohoo:  I can't wait to get out online.  We're nearing the end of our new training, and going to leave a few weeks of review before our final testing.  This week we're doing high rise evolutions, basically meaning we get to run up a lot of stairs, carry a lot of :pokinit: up the stairs, and then fight fire once we get there.  Next week we're doing some tech rescue stuff, then all we have to do is some vehicle extrication training, and some basic hazmat stuff.  That'll be interesting to say the least.  Our PT has gotten into somewhat of a routine, mon/fri we run stadiums and do 20/25s at UNR stadium.  Tues/thurs, we do obstacle courses and crosstraining type stuff at our drill grounds, and wed we go to a local gym.  Everyonce in a while, they throw in some interesting stuff though, last week we ran the stairs of the Silver Legacy casino twice, 42 floors, with full turnouts and SCBAs.  That was a bit of a workout :gap:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

abnormaltoy

#64
November 13, 2007, 11:02:14 PM
Congrats on the job!

You may have already answered this, but...do you have any idea where you'll be based for a first assignment?
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

Censorship, that most subtle tool of oppression, the tool of the fearful and small minded. 8/15/2008

"It is interesting that we are asked to NOT judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. Too bad gun owners can't get same judgment."
Travis Tritt (I know!)

BLACKDOG

#65
November 13, 2007, 11:07:31 PM
Quote from: abnormaltoy on November 13, 2007, 11:02:14 PM
Congrats on the job!

You may have already answered this, but...do you have any idea where you'll be based for a first assignment?

At a fire station?  :dunno:

:gap:









No, not really.  they'll divide the 19 of us between the 3 shifts (A,B, and C) and then we'll get sent out to stations.  They do a rotation of 2 months for FNKs (you figure it out :gap: ) We've got 8 months left on probation after the academy, so we'll get to experience different apparatus at 4 different stations.  After we get off probation, we get to spend a while in a floater pool, where we have to call in on the days we work, and we get sent to different stations depending on their needs.  It'll be a few years before I actually get to bid to a station.
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

abnormaltoy

#66
November 13, 2007, 11:14:16 PM
Quote from: BLACKDOG on November 13, 2007, 11:07:31 PM
At a fire station?  :dunno:

:gap:









No, not really.  they'll divide the 19 of us between the 3 shifts (A,B, and C) and then we'll get sent out to stations.  They do a rotation of 2 months for FNKs (you figure it out :gap: ) We've got 8 months left on probation after the academy, so we'll get to experience different apparatus at 4 different stations.  After we get off probation, we get to spend a while in a floater pool, where we have to call in on the days we work, and we get sent to different stations depending on their needs.  It'll be a few years before I actually get to bid to a station.

So...you'll get to move around for a while. Cool.


I got it...FeNominally Krazy? Former Northern Kalifornian?
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

Censorship, that most subtle tool of oppression, the tool of the fearful and small minded. 8/15/2008

"It is interesting that we are asked to NOT judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. Too bad gun owners can't get same judgment."
Travis Tritt (I know!)

BLACKDOG

#67
November 13, 2007, 11:23:40 PM
Quote from: abnormaltoy on November 13, 2007, 11:14:16 PM
So...you'll get to move around for a while. Cool.


I got it...FeNominally Krazy? Former Northern Kalifornian?

I'll give you a hint, _____  New Kids 

:gap:


got it now?  :hahaha:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

abnormaltoy

#68
November 13, 2007, 11:29:50 PM
Man...  :shake_head: I didn't fall off the turnip truck last week!  :banana: Just trying to inject a little levity!
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

Censorship, that most subtle tool of oppression, the tool of the fearful and small minded. 8/15/2008

"It is interesting that we are asked to NOT judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. Too bad gun owners can't get same judgment."
Travis Tritt (I know!)

BLACKDOG

#69
November 13, 2007, 11:42:53 PM
Quote from: abnormaltoy on November 13, 2007, 11:29:50 PM
Man...  :shake_head: I didn't fall off the turnip truck last week!  :banana: Just trying to inject a little levity!

:headshake:

well not all of us are from Northern CA, duh!! :smack:


:hahaha:

:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

Stocker

#70
November 14, 2007, 05:37:52 AM
Quote from: BLACKDOG on November 13, 2007, 11:23:40 PM
I'll give you a hint, _____  New Kids 
OK, got it....  it's Friendly, right?   :greengrin:
My goal in life is to be as a good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

If you don't learn something every day, you're not paying attention.

BLACKDOG

#71
December 16, 2007, 06:08:55 PM
Quote from: Stocker on November 14, 2007, 05:37:52 AM
OK, got it....  it's Friendly, right?   :greengrin:

Of course it is!!  :thumbs:

Well, 2 weeks to go.  Since I last updated this, we had some water rescue training, learning how to work in a support position with out Water Entry Team.  We also did some live ice rescue training, practicing our entry techniques, and how to pull people out.  Each rig is equiped with a "duck suit"  basically a very thick wetsuit that is sealed on the inside, so it is "mostly" water proof.  The suit itself is fairly warm, aside from the fact that you find out pretty quickly where it leaks.   :yikes:  Due to the time constraints related to rescuing someone who has broken through the ice, this is the only part of water rescue that everyone on the department is trained to technician level in.  Anything else, only the WET crew will actually get in the water. 

We also spent a few days working with the Tech rescue crew, which does high and low angle rope rescue, trench rescue, confined space, etc.  We're also trained in a support role for this team, but we got to mess with some of their equipment and actually go into the spaces and stuff that they normally would.  Somehow, I picked up a new nickname along the way, Draino.  I've shocked more than a few people with my ability to wedge my big :moon: into small spaces, and work in them.  I can turn myself around in a 30" tube,and I also managed to crawl through a 30 ft pipe that had an ID of 17.2 inches.  Needless to say, I may be the tech teams newest tunnel rat once I get off probation :gap:

Spent 3 days on extrication, the PnP in sparks was very instrumental in this, they donated about 10 cars to our cause, letting us cut them apart.  The last day we got to run some scenarios with the Truckee Meadows Community College Paramedic class, using them as victims, and having to cut them out of the vehicles, while preforming medical aid as well.  That was a lot of fun.  You don't realize true responsibility and power until you are wielding a tool that can cut or spread with 60K pounds of force, and you're cutting a person out of a car. :disturbed:

Last week we spent 4 days on Hazmat training, once again learning our support roles for the Hazmat team.  We finished the week by being able to get into the Hazmat suits, and running a decon scenario in the RFD regional decon rig.  Reno has a large responsibility when it comes to hazmat, not only are they responsible for the RFD response area (650 sq miles) but they are responsible for Lake Tahoe, and everything lke Tahoe drains into :yikes:  they also go as far east along 80 as fernley, lovelock, and Battle mountain.

This week we're getting our uniforms, our own turnouts (not leftovers) and we're running 2 days of scenarios on a condemned hotel in downtown reno.  We're going to get to do everything except actually putting out fire on a motor lodge, which is going to be a lot of fun.  finally, the week after we take our FF1 and 2 written and practical tests, and graduate!! :woohoo:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

BLACKDOG

#72
January 13, 2008, 05:11:32 PM
As requested, here are some pics of graduation, and some pics of my station that I'm right now (station 10), the reserve engine we have right now (frontline engine's transmission went out, got sent to Allison for repairs) and our brush rig



Ruger taking pics at graduation:











My side






:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

topar

#73
January 13, 2008, 05:53:51 PM
 :thumbs: Congratulations.  I have always liked the green trucks.  Thats what they run here in the County but in the city its the red trucks.

BLACKDOG

#74
January 13, 2008, 06:12:21 PM
Quote from: topar on January 13, 2008, 05:53:51 PM
:thumbs: Congratulations.  I have always liked the green trucks.  Thats what they run here in the County but in the city its the red trucks.

We're slowly going to all red.  The green rigs are old country rigs, Reno Fire Dept merged with the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District in 2000, so we've got all of their equipment, and man their stations now.  Pretty much all our reserve rigs are old TM rigs, and some of the frontline rigs still are TM rigs.  All new stuff is going to be red and white, or red and silver though. 
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

BLACKDOG

#75
March 04, 2008, 08:17:58 PM
Well, I finished up at my old Station (10) last go around, and started at my new station last Sat.  I'm now at Station 11.  11 houses an engine, a brush rig, a truck, the heavy rescue and USAR trailer, and a boat rig for the Water Entry Team.  I'm on the engine at this station, my last rotation I'll be on Truck 3, which is far busier than Truck 11 :gap: 

Here are a few pics of the lovely ladies I get to work with :gap:


the real Engine 10, not the reserve green one.



My sis came up to visit, so I took her to the station when I was still at 10




Her in the brush rig




Engine 11

I love these old engines!!





My seat(s) Not a lot of room.  Yes, my shoulders hit both the window and the doghouse when I'm sitting in either seat, I can sit facing forward or backward.  Most medicals I sit facing forward, but when we gear up for a fire, I sit facing backward, so I can put on my airpack





Truck 11  This thing has so much cool stuff.  Has more tools than most of us prolly do :gap:





Heavy Rescue.  This has everything our tech team needs to preform high and low angle rope rescue, confined space rescue, trench rescue, building shoring, etc.



USAR trailer



Brush 11





:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

red

#76
March 04, 2008, 08:34:10 PM
congrats :thumbs: looks like you've got some fun equipment to play with as well!
read and comment :whip:

USAF EOD tech

BLACKDOG

#77
March 04, 2008, 08:48:18 PM
Quote from: red on March 04, 2008, 08:34:10 PM
congrats :thumbs: looks like you've got some fun equipment to play with as well!

Thanks!!

:disturbed: :yesnod:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

topar

#78
March 04, 2008, 09:36:08 PM
 :thumbs: Cool pics.  My sons godfather just finished his medic stuff and last year he did the swift water rescue training.  Last weekend he took his LT. exam  :crossed:

abnormaltoy

#79
March 04, 2008, 09:49:54 PM
Wow...all the cool toys! I would have given anything to be there when I was 6.
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

Censorship, that most subtle tool of oppression, the tool of the fearful and small minded. 8/15/2008

"It is interesting that we are asked to NOT judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. Too bad gun owners can't get same judgment."
Travis Tritt (I know!)

BLACKDOG

#80
March 04, 2008, 10:01:34 PM Last Edit: March 04, 2008, 10:27:46 PM by BLACKDOG
Quote from: abnormaltoy on March 04, 2008, 09:49:54 PM
Wow...all the cool toys! I would have given anything to be there when I was 6.

:rolf:  Hell, I still feel that way!!  In the evenings, after I'm done with all my chores and stuff, I've gone out to the rigs, and just wandered around the bay, looking at all the stuff. 

Quote from: topar on March 04, 2008, 09:36:08 PM
:thumbs: Cool pics.  My sons godfather just finished his medic stuff and last year he did the swift water rescue training.  Last weekend he took his LT. exam  :crossed:

Thats cool!!  :thumbs:

We don't have Lts. out here.  We run 2 FFs, an operator, and a captain on each rig (engine and truck, brush rigs are manned as needed)  Truck captain is the station boss at two company stations.  I'm hopefully going to be working on my EMT-I next year or so, and 'd like to get on the WET and Tech Rescue teams.
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

abnormaltoy

#81
March 04, 2008, 10:14:54 PM
Quote from: BLACKDOG on March 04, 2008, 10:01:34 PM
:rolf:  Hell, I still feel that way!!  In the evenings, after I'm done with all my chores and stuff, I've gone out the rigs, and just wandered around the bay, looking at all the stuff. 

I figured you were living your dream.
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

Censorship, that most subtle tool of oppression, the tool of the fearful and small minded. 8/15/2008

"It is interesting that we are asked to NOT judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics. Too bad gun owners can't get same judgment."
Travis Tritt (I know!)

BLACKDOG

#82
March 04, 2008, 10:28:06 PM
Quote from: abnormaltoy on March 04, 2008, 10:14:54 PM
I figured you were living your dream.

:yesnod: 
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

Wermz84

#83
March 06, 2008, 05:07:01 PM
Have any good stories yet??     :D
I like to Drive!

unclejpl4x4

#84
March 06, 2008, 06:30:45 PM
Reno 911 
build thread http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=39214.0
CB install http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=45467.0
roundeyes http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=33294.0;highlight=round+eyes
LC exhaust head 2 tip, EB RVstreethead O/S valves,EB  268c/torker cam , .20 over , metal t-chain wear pads
MARLIN clutch 1200, master clutch cly

BLACKDOG

#85
March 06, 2008, 09:16:46 PM
Quote from: Wermz84 on March 06, 2008, 05:07:01 PM
Have any good stories yet??     :D

not realy.  Pretty run of the mill calls so far.  I've head one fire, a vehicle fire in a junkyard.  Got to put that out all by myself, which was really cool.  It was cooking pretty good too.  Other than that, nothing real major. Sick people, car accidents, etc. We had two accidents that were crazy in their results though.

1) The roads were real slick, and this guy was coming up an onramp, and slid on black ice, and flipped.  The vehicle (s10 blazer) wound up on its lid off the side of the road.  It landed in about two feet of snow, driver crawled out the pass. side window, and the rig was fine!  No broken glass, no body damage, hell, the roll didn't even rip the mirrors off. 

2)  During our last big snow storm, 2 women in a ranger got hit by another truck on the freeway.  At the point where she was hit, the free way was raised on an embankment about 25 feet above the surrounding area.  She wound up going under the barrier fence, and rolling off the embankment.  She landed on her wheels, in a parking lot.  they took her to the hospital with her complaining of a headache  :o  If she had landed on her lid, or even on her side, we would have had a body recovery.   :conf:
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

Doof

#86
March 06, 2008, 09:29:46 PM
how long is that stick on T11?

BLACKDOG

#87
March 06, 2008, 09:38:06 PM
Quote from: sillywilly on March 06, 2008, 09:29:46 PM
how long is that stick on T11?


Its a 100 footer. 
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent

Doof

#88
March 06, 2008, 09:44:31 PM
nice... have they let you fly it yet or just stand back and admire?

BLACKDOG

#89
March 06, 2008, 10:11:01 PM
Quote from: sillywilly on March 06, 2008, 09:44:31 PM
nice... have they let you fly it yet or just stand back and admire?

we got to do that in the academy! :gap:  let me see if I can find a pic real quick.  They stuck it up, away from any buildings, and the wind was blowing near the max limit (don't know what it is for sure, thats just what they told us)  and had us climb to the top.  That was cool, and kinda crazy.  You could feel the ladder swaying in the wind.
:usa: Its better to die on your feet than live on your knees :usa:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. "

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
              -Ronald Reagan

Don't take life too seriously, it isn't permanent
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