Fire Academy: Days 7-9, Turnout Gear and SCBA’s
A long hot Saturday of gearing up and gearing down… over and over again. Turnouts, boots & breathing apparatus
Fire Academy: Days 3-6
I’m behind. Blogging is a difficult thing do between work and the fire academy. At this point, the days are becoming a bit of a blur and with the changes to our schedule, it’s hard to keep track of where I’ve been. In an effort to catch up I’m going to consolidate a couple of days into this one post.
Fire Academy: Day 2 – History of the Fire Service
The last couple weeks have been brutal. Between the fire academy and my new job, I’ve been slammed. I’ve been to Concord Uniforms so many times recently, I’ve though about volunteering there. It was my hope at the start of this blog that I would be...
Fire Academy: Day 1 – Orientation & My Big Blunder
Today was the first full day of the Los Medanos Fire Academy for my class of cadets. I say full day, because we did have a 3-hour orientation two weeks ago, but that was more of a “welcome to the academy” day than today was. With all of us in our brand...
Interview With A Bay Area Battalion Chief
I recently became friendly with a Bay Area Battalion Chief who was kind enough to give me his time for a brief interview. What he said…