the 100% directionless thread

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100% how I feel today.
 
If I ever have to intubate someone again wearing a half face respirator and a PFD I think I'm gonna quit.
 
Tigger said:
If I ever have to intubate someone again wearing a half face respirator and a PFD I think I'm gonna quit.
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PFD? Personal Floatation Device? That’s a little strange...
 
DesertMedic66 said:
PFD? Personal Floatation Device? That’s a little strange...
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Gotta wear a PFD if you're on the shore and throwin' ropes. He ended up being out of reach of the throw bag so I went to set the ambulance up and never got a chance to get out of it.
 
And here I was thinking PFD had some other meaning. I'm tryna picture someone with a bright orange USCG certified personal flotation device, and half face respirator doing CPR in an ambulance, but I just get a mental image that looks more like one of those satirical cartoons lol
 
DragonClaw said:
What rope
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water rescue throw ropes.

A throw bag
A throw bag or throw line is a rescue device with a length of rope stuffed loosely into a bag so it can pay out through the top when the bag is thrown to a swimmer.
 
And said throw bag should only be used by personnel TRAINED in its use, that's for the noobs out there...
 
CCCSD said:
And said throw bag should only be used by personnel TRAINED in its use, that's for the noobs out there...
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The trick is not to hit the rescuee in the head.
 
Seirende said:
The trick is not to hit the rescuee in the head.
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*hurriedly scribbling notes* "Not hit them on head..." lol

(We have similar rope bags, but generally only used for hauling up equipment 2 or 3 stories at a fire scene (which I've never actually seen done yet, but we still practice tying up axes and pike poles lol), my engine just has those yellow tubes for water stuff, tho a neighboring station has a jetski...)
 
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Jim37F said:
And here I was thinking PFD had some other meaning. I'm tryna picture someone with a bright orange USCG certified personal flotation device, and half face respirator doing CPR in an ambulance, but I just get a mental image that looks more like one of those satirical cartoons lol
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Well you aren't wrong really.
 
The Jetski is for..."rescues"...yeah... SPLASH!
The rope bag is for haulin' Howlies.
 
Seirende said:
The trick is not to hit the rescuee in the head.
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The trick is to take the D Ring off the bag... someone may have been clocked in the helmet during my swift water rescue class.
 
Back in the day when jetski training was left to the individual companies, yeah they were known to spend all day "training". But now there are soooooo many formal training certs that have to be gained/maintained it's more a PITA, and we might completely dump the entire ski program to the Ocean Safety Lifeguards (who already have their own jet ski program...)

Now, the Rescue guys, they have 22ft SAR boats (complete with SCUBA gear). They will disappear all day for training lol

(They turned our basement into essentially an isolated substation for one of our two Rescue squads, cuz our parking lot is at the basement level. So to prevent COVID and keep isolation they built dorms and a kitchen downstairs, kicked our gym up to our Apparatus floor, brought in their own workout stuff... basically made two completely separate stations, one on top of the other lol, so now we have to park on the Apparatus driveway, it's a bit crazy lol)
 
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