Talked to one of my chiefs today about an exercise we did yesterday involving search and rescue. We had to put wax paper in our SCBA masks to simulate smokey conditions and zero visability. We went full PPE/SCBA which means all of our gear and on air. We had 3 people go in as the hose team, and I was part of a 3 person team called RIT (rapid intervention team) to rescue down fire fighters. All 3 hose people went down. Heat exhaustion ,mostly. Meaning they couldnt get around in their gear WITHOUT a fire present. Several others went down as well...even members of the 2 RIT teams. Only myself and 4 others passed this exercise and made it out. Out of 13 people taking part in this evolution 7 people went down, 3 critically ill. All for real. This is scary to know that all of these people would wind up victims in an actual emergency. The kicker is, I ran 4 damn miles that morning and STILL made it through. Thats a hot mess. To think, there was a time that I could barely get off of the couch. Toot
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:19:09 +0000
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