I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope you're able to grieve and process everything, but unfortunately, there really isn't much in the way of a single, solid answer to your question.
It's nearly impossible to say how well they'd be conscious or when afterwards, because it varies greatly depending...
Idk, prob some combo of 1970s logic "Well if there's a fire, we need the Engines available more than the Ladders" combined with "That's how we've always done it" and a dash of "Why *should* we change that?"
Where was your hotel? It's funny, because Honolulu sends Ladders first up for medicals over Engines... most of the multi Company station Engines are far slower than their counterparts lol
HS -> Active Duty Army (I was a 37F, PSYOP Specialist, working information operations, counter propaganda, basically trying to advertise "Taliban are the bad guys" hearts and minds type of stuff.... it was interesting but never really quite my forte) Decided I wanted to go Fire Department after...
Just finished binge watching Netflix's new live action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. I liked it, thought it was pretty neat, looking forward to the adaptation of Season 2.
Granted I haven't watched the original cartoon version in a while (maybe a year or two?), I did feel like the live...
So Dune Part 1 was playing on the tv last night on shift (and we were able to watch the whole thing uninterrupted). Both the other FFs at the station wanted to watch it because they had both just seen Part 2 in theaters the day before (I hadn't watched Part 1 since it was in theaters...
Pretty sure that's exactly what the Reddit threat was referencing, and yup, never heard of these lol
Guess I don't run enough jobs during my tour on the bus...
hmm ,never heard of such, at least as a specific type, where someone would say "chore jacket" and I should picture the exact cut/style lol
Vs just, you know, a jacket you happen to be wearing cuz it's chilly out, doing chores or not *shrugs*
Stupid question, but what is a "Chore Jacket"? (Specifically a denim chore jacket). Is that an actual common term, or like a specific bit of regional slang?
Cause I mean, sure, I lived mostly in warmer states (lol) but I have also spent multiple years living in states where snow in the winter...
Apparently one of the City Council Members suffered a cardiac arrest at a meeting... a meeting attended by our EMS Medical Director, the Fire Chief, and one of the Deputy Police Chiefs (who got to remember their CPR training and start bystander CPR and using one of the City Halls public access...
The fact that this is even theoretically possible to essentially crash your helicopter into your same helicopter, much less not-just-theoreticall-but-well-known-cause-of-way-too-many-fatallities, is just insane to me
That moment when there's more EMT/Medic coming out of the ambulance than were FFs off the Engine lol
(They were doing training both new EMT and Medic so had two FTOs and 4 total, we're running with only 3 FFs today lol)
A previous system I worked for, we were absolutely required to chart Fires run number. It was no problem when they'd just give us a paper PCR that had it printed already... but when they switched to an ePCR system, theirs and ours, at least in the field, could not talk to each other, so they'd...