Firefighter Survival

Should I lose the chub that I have on me right now which is about 20-30 pounds and then bulk up or should I bulk up now. I bought $150 worth or protein and creatine a year ago that I never used so its ready to go, but Im not sure I have 7 months to get into great shape and Id like to get the ball going faster and maybe get beach body before summer. I plan on joining the marine corps when I graduate which is in a year and a half so ill need to be in TIP TOP Physical condition for that so should i go skinny then buff or just keep adding on the pounds now?

Let me give you a bit of advice: Cardio, cardio, cardio! It's not so much the weight but how fit you are. Firefighters need to be in tip-top shape, granted, but the Marines will KILL YOU if you don't get off your a** NOW. Fit doesn't necessarily mean skinny. You'll have time to get ripped during firefighter training but if you can't keep up, what's the point of having a "beach body"? So, hit the gym, focus on cardio and you'll have a great start to a great life plan!
Semper Fi!
OO-RAH!!

2010-02-01 16:51:32 by Alex H

This is a Firefighter Training Prop that can be used to practice various techniques from basic skills to advanced rescue and survival procedures ...

How is the survival of the relationship if one is a career cop and the other a career firefighter? Would the stress from the jobs put a strain on the relationship? Can it survive?

Anything can work as long as you both want it to and work on it together

2008-04-21 18:47:25 by Antwuan J

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i got a question. i'm a seasonal wildland firefighter and i have a question no one can answer for me so far. what is the survival rate for firefighters having to use their fire shelters in a real fire?

We do not have a role of Firefighters who deal with Forest Fires, as in the UK nearly all our Forests have been destroyed.They have a desire that if they see a Tree they get their axes out or chain saws, and down it comes. We sacrifice all our Trees to put houses on for all the rest of the World to come and live here.As for the wild life well that goes with it as well.Our Governments idea is that everything is bulldozed to put up buildings mainly housing, to greet our Country with another shipment of foreigners. We will gradually become a land of nothing else but bricks and mortar, and we used to call it " The green green grass of England " well its goodbye to all that now, and the next lot of trees you see will be on the TV.

2009-12-07 12:33:04 by firetyler19

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I reckon so, Cos they do what we cant, Everytime the siren goes these men and women put themselves in harms way to protect us
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Summary | Newstalk ZB | NZPA
Wednesday April 30, 04:35 PM
Trapped, injured firefighter put himself in survival mode

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A firefighter badly hurt in a coolstore explosion says he went into survival mode as he lay trapped in the inferno with half his face hanging off.

Brian Halford and Alvin Walker were caught in the April 5 blast which ripped through the Icepak Coolstore at Tamahere on the outskirts of Hamilton.

It fatally injured Derek Lovell and injured seven other firemen.

In his first public words about the incident, Mr Halford today said part of the building fell on top of him as he lay badly injured.

"My breathing was raspy, gurgly," he told a Hamilton fire station media conference with four of seven firefighters hurt on April 5.

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"I was losing my airway. I was going unconscious and at that point it was like, `calm down, sort your crap out and get on top of this sort of thing', so I pretty much went into a survival mode.

"I got my breathing under control, got my airway under control and thought, `right stay conscious. If you lose consciousness then you have pretty much had it'."

Mr Halford told reporters he briefly thought he would die.

If it was not for the civilian heroes who dragged he and Mr Walker out of the burning building, they probably both would have died, he said.

Moments after the explosion he knew he was badly injured.

"My face was off from about the nose, the bottom of my eye. It was all just sitting on my shoulder.

"There was a lot of blood.

"The guys who found me thought I had no eyes and no face, so it would have been very horrific for them to see.

"They were having nightmares so they had to come and see me to get a little bit of closure for themselves."

He said his civilian rescuers were the heroes.

"If they hadn't been there, particularly a couple of guys who don't want to be known to the media, we wouldn't be here.

"There were a lot of surgeons there at the time and doctors at Tamahere and if they hadn't been there, I wouldn't be here."

Mr Halford met his civilian rescuers in hospital.

"What do you say? The only thanks they wanted was to see my face and to see me interact with my children."

Before the blast he was a keen runner.

"I am not running now. If I were to, the face would probably fall off, but I am doing a lot of walking."

Mr Walker, who had head injuries and broken ribs, said the incident had led to a far closer bond with the community and within the firefighting family.

He did not know how to say thank you to the people who rescued them.

"We need to get together and definitely buy them a beer. My wife gave them the biggest hug ever. Someone gave them their husband back."

When he returned to the front line, he would face every day as it came.

"I am looking forward to getting back. That's what I love to do, help other people. That's why I joined the job," Mr Walker said.

He rated the pain level about eight out of 10, and said he had not properly grieved for Mr Lovell, who died from his injuries the night of the fire.

He was close to tears when he left hospital to go to Mr Lovell's funeral.

"The people who actually saved us and who had worked on us had formed a guard of honour for us.

"Really, we should have been doing that for them. Those are the real heroes, the people who worked on us and the people who carried on working and the people who rescued us."

Adrian Brown, who was badly burnt on his hands and face, was released from hospital six days ago.

The response from the Morrinsville community where he lived had moved him.

Cameron Grylls returned to duty two days ago and said one of the biggest hurdles was leaving his family to go to work.

"It is hard to describe. It is something that I wasn't quite expecting to be that hard," Mr Grylls said.

Like Mr Walker, Dennis Wells had yet to accept Mr Lovell was dead.

"I probably won't until I get back to work. I was unconscious the whole time. I remember absolutely nothing until the next day.

"I remember them telling me about Derek and I couldn't accept it then. I still expect him to walk in the door and give me some flak."

He had no second thoughts about getting out of his hospital bed to go to Mr Lovell's funeral.

"He was my mate, I had to, I had to. It was my last chance to say something.

"I can't stress how much we owe those people at Tamahere. If they hadn't had that gala day ... there would be at least another three dead firemen.

"We were so, so lucky. If something was going to go wrong it could not have gone wrong at a better place and at a better time."

The most seriously hurt firefighter, Merv Neil, was still in a critical condition in the burns unit at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.

Fire fighters the world over are incredibly brave people. They can never predict what will happen on any given call, yet they go out and put their lives on the line for us!
It would be nice if we had Fire Fighters' and Police Officers' Day! They deserve to be recognized!

2008-04-30 03:41:00 by Spectre

I am turning 17 this august and still am in high school, therefore i am planning to enter the air force through the softbook program. I have talked to my recruiter and even though I am dying to be a firefighter in the AF, I know the job is very hard to get a spot in even though I volunteer now at a station will have have FF I and FF II cert. by the time I graduate next june.

Anyways I need to pick 4 jobs as a member of the Softbook program. One is for sure fire protection apprentice I like to help people and to make an actual difference. I also want something that has a good translation to civilian life.

I was thinking possibly as the other three:

Chaplain Assistant(I dont know much about this, is it or is it not a combat job?)

Aerospace Maintenance/ Jet Mechanic/Crew Chief

Emergency Management/Readiness

Aerospace Propulsions Systems

Air Traffic Controller

Security Forces

Integrated Avionics Systems

space systems

Intel (Dreams of one day working in the CIA)

Crypto linguist (I am Greek and am interested in learning Greek, but I know that Arabic is in high demand, I wouldnt mind learning this, and maybe I could get stationed at souda bay in crete,greece...just a thought)

Airfield Transportation/Management

aerospace physiology(I know nothing about this job)

SERE,EOD and PJ [probably more of impulse choices]

If I had to pick today i would put:
Fire Protection apprentice
integrated avionics systems
Intel
Air Traffic control or crypto linguist or Chaplain Assistant

Thank You and God Bless.

What is harder to become SERE, EOD, or PJ?

PS: I have also thought about the coast guard as an AST (Aviation Survival Technician) and more minor as Damage controlman
Also, How much time do you have between tech school graduation and base assignment?

You cannot simply decide to become a PJ in impulse, it takes a lot of preparation to get to the level you need to be at to even try to make it through indoc. This is a Special Operations careerfield that has a 90% attrition rate, you must truly want it to get it and you must be prepared before trying.

SERE is a conventional job, it is not Special Operations, but it also requires some preparation on your part. The indoc for SERE isn't nearly as strenuous as PJ indoc, but it does require you be in somewhat good physical conditioning. You'll also need to have an interest in becoming an instructor and have an interest in the material you'll be teaching. That is their mission, teaching.

EOD is also a conventional job, though in other services they are often times pulled to support Special Operations due to their highly specific skillset. AF EOD not that often, but it does happen. They currently have a 60% attrition rate, the school is very long and very academic. If you want to render safe unexploded ordnance and IEDs, you would probably enjoy this career.

You have an incredibly large list of things that vary .. I would suggest sitting down and narrowing it down to at least three and working from there.

If you do decide you would like to try out for Pararescue, you will need to get that in a guaranteed contract (GTEP) as we're not really looking for volunteers out of basic training thanks to the GTEP contracts. Indoc classes are filling months in advance. You will also need to spend about a year preparing for it because if you don't, you will fail indoc and when you do .. it's needs of the Air Force for the most part.

Good luck.

2009-06-27 08:47:40 by mrtupac21