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Comment by Dan Rice on March 5, 2009 at 8:19pm

Just wanted to give everyone a quick hello and thank everyone for there input and suggestions sense I’ve been on this site. I hope everyone stays safe out there. Thanks

Comment by holden shough on March 5, 2009 at 12:45am

we usualy have an average response time of 5-8min up here in orland

Comment by Tom Burger on February 25, 2009 at 6:46pm

Thanks guy's

Comment by Lee Waterson on February 24, 2009 at 7:03pm

Our average is 5 minutes. Depending on the time of the call it could be less or more.

Comment by Bob Costine on February 20, 2009 at 7:50am

We have an average resonse time of five minutes.

Comment by Dan Rice on February 19, 2009 at 8:26pm

We usually turn out the first engine company with 6 men in no more than five minutes from our time of call.

Comment by Eddie Rogers on February 19, 2009 at 6:55pm

We usually average about 3 to five mins from time of page ubtil we roll an engine.

Comment by Tom Burger on February 19, 2009 at 6:22pm

I am a lieutenant on a paid on call volunteer fire dept.
This is my first post ever. So I'll make it a simple one.
Just curious as to what your average response times are?

Comment by holden shough on February 17, 2009 at 7:17am

thanks eddie building the maze sounds like a good idea to me and i like how you kinda set up a whole mock scene with the IC and all wich we do sumtimes too. but we havent ever toyed with the idea of havin the safety officer being dispatch i think that would be cool and really make the IC stay on his toes. thanks a lot eddie ill hafta take a look at the videos in the training minutes to get sum good ideas thanks again. stay safe brother

Comment by Eddie Rogers on February 16, 2009 at 7:49pm

Hey Holden, what if you took some of the rit training videos in the training minuites, and retooled them to make them more intense. We have built mazes in the station bays with stuff as basic as thick cardboard and folding tables, to short pieces of 3/4" plywood to simulate walls. You can get really creative with these mazes. Black out a couple of masks, put a perosn in the maze somewhere and send in a team to rescue them. We have sent in a mock attack team and then a rit team to get the down man out. You can change the entry and egress points by simulating a portion of the building collapse and make them find an alternative means of egress. We have personell assigned to medical, rit and attack as well as an IC. The IC, has "curves" to deal with as well. Our training officer acts as dispatcher to limit his options and have him (IC) think on his feet. We also have a larger city dept that has a small "heat" building that has multiple levels for doing multilevel searches, and working off of ladders. You may check with some of the dept's in your area to see if that opportunity is available.

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