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My name's Chris, and I'm a Probationary Firefighter with the Sierra Madre Fire Department. We're located about 15 miles NE of downtown Los Angeles, and are bordered on the west by Pasadena, on the south and east by Arcadia and on the north by the San Gabriel Mountains. We're a town of about 11,000 residents in a 3.2 square mile area, and are home to the only all volunteer fire department in L.A. County. We're also currently the only BLS fire department in the County...all the rest of the departments provide ALS service. About 60-80% of our call volume are EMS calls. We have a skilled nursing facility and two assisted living facilities (with a third under construction) in town, along with mostly residential and some light commercial/retail businesses.
I've been on the department since June of last year (as a Trainee until December, then as a Probie) but have been involved in EMS for about 4 years now, primarily in an industrial setting. I started out as a First Responder when I worked for the L.A. Times and helped set-up the Medical Emergency Response Team there. After that, I worked for a major oil company where I served as an emergency responder and safety officer on a couple of primarily HazMat response teams, and got my EMT-1 (aka EMT-Basic) certification while I was working there.
I'm a new dad with a beautiful 3-month old little girl, so aside from her, work and the department, I don't have a lot of free time.
I've been on the department since June of last year (as a Trainee until December, then as a Probie) but have been involved in EMS for about 4 years now, primarily in an industrial setting. I started out as a First Responder when I worked for the L.A. Times and helped set-up the Medical Emergency Response Team there. After that, I worked for a major oil company where I served as an emergency responder and safety officer on a couple of primarily HazMat response teams, and got my EMT-1 (aka EMT-Basic) certification while I was working there.
I'm a new dad with a beautiful 3-month old little girl, so aside from her, work and the department, I don't have a lot of free time.
