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Lives in:: Apartment

Department:: Student

Title/rank:: FF/emt

Years of public service:: 12

Agency structure:: Paid fire department

Top issues in your department:: Have been a fed Wildland Firefighter, Municipal paid on call, Municipal Volunteer, and a Paid Private Ambulance EMTB. Training, quals, and expanding scopes of response to better provide for our customer ( the tax payers). Permanent Federal Wildland firefighters are often sent out to do projects during the winter, and equipment and apparatus that the tax payers are paying for is left to sit. Many seasonal federal employees already have structure quals. Many people that are permanent employees want to get the quals. In many areas, the need for year round augmentation or assistance to local often volunteer agencies is needed, and often desired. Why not use them

Professional Qualifications:: Lots, mostly NWCG, EMTB SWRT1, ICT5, ENOP, ENGBt, CRWBt, DOZBt etc... HAZMAT FRO, currently (finally after 3 attempts via volunteer FF1 programs that I was unable to complete cause of fire seasons begining) attending TrainingDivision.com to get Texas F.F. I and II.

Topics you provide training for:: Wildland FF1

Areas of expertise:: Mostly Wildland fire, and have studied much about Truck Company Ops. (what can I say, Truck Company is where my heart is)

Bio:: 12 years as a firefighter... ( Wildland FF's are Firefighters too! Congress give them their own job class!!)

Jason Myer's Blog

IN THE ZONE... LCES (#2 28 APRIL 2011)

As I sat here contemplating what to write about this week, thinking about our fellow firefighters that have been injured or have paid the ultimate sacrifice on fires in or near wildland-urban interface areas already this year. Two firefighters injured in North Central Nebraska, A firefighter injured in Arizona, Two firefighters killed and I believe the total injured at one point was 8 firefighters injured on separate incidents here in Texas. And I have been wondering what is similar... and I…

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Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:30pm

"In the Zone"...The Urban/Wildland Interface.......

Hey all don't know how far this idea will make it, but some friends of mine said I should so here we go....

The Name of my Blog for all to read will be "IN THE ZONE". For this blog, "The Zone" is the Wildland - Urban Interface Zone, or the I-Zone as it is commonly referred to. Even if your deep inside the heart of a major metropolitan city, anywhere the Urban Fuel… Continue

Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

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