Mopar1973Man

Please excuse me I 've been thinking the DrawStraw I was like my Drawstraw I (old school) but its no longer...

The fire was over 45-48 miles from me. I still made it there and worked 12 hours. I just drove to Riggins, ID tonight again for more work on fire trucks and getting another truck back in quarters after being repaired. As for being reimbursed I don't see anything at all. Nothing... I get a very small bonus check every year for attending all meetings and calls. but never see any funds for fuel. Solely my responsibility. I cover from top of WhiteBird grade to the top of Smokey Boulder Grade which is roughly 63 miles of highway and then 5 miles on either side, then include all side roads the same way so roughly 630 square miles of highway. Here is roughly the highway coverage. http://goo.gl/maps/PcTqz Our response time is so slow I never had a call where we got to enter a building. I've done all the training for doing searches and crawling. We still do the training for it. But back to actual calls we do most like wildland grass fires and vehicle accidents.

He sure wasn't talking to the police station, doctor, ambulance driver, etc... I can it being a different light if he was on the phone getting a ambulance there, or other help but to stand on the phone and do nothing just gets me wound up. I'm a fire fighter and I'm under the same laws as that police officer and I would gladly give everything I got and take the risk of being sued. I'm sure police dept. has wonderful lawyers and attorneys to keep them them out of trouble.

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Ahh... POV's yes. I've got the 02 setup with red lights and I do carry a radio. But the problem is in my area the radio signal it very weak and can't be heard. I got to travel at least about 5 miles to get out on my handheld where a truck radio is much more power. By the time I go 5 miles to get radio signal I'm 4 miles past my fire house. So I kept trucking for the next fire house with a engine I can get to which is about 25 miles away in Lucile, ID. As for the turn out I keep them in there bag in the bed of the truck. As for them being washed we do have turnout cleaner but I sure not going to put them in our washing machine. I've got to get time and take them into town or something. I normal take the outer shell and just use good old water and hose them down and let the dry. As for structure fires its extremely rare to go to them. 99% of our calls are wildland grass fires and vehicle accidents. 99.9% of vehicle accidents normal have no fire but we are on scene because of leaking fuels safety issue. So for the most part my turnouts are rather virgin yet to a real structure fire where you actually crawled into a burning building. 99% of all structure fires are typically already on the ground and a full loss. Personally myself only see one call where a small shop the saved. (I'm sure the had a few others but I wasn't there).

Any more news on the wifes progess...???@Hex0rz Both are excellent idea. I've got to use both on the extrication class and the seat belt cutter is nice but even a sharp multi-tool works good too. Which is something I always have on my belt. Glass punch can be made from a spring and 2 harden bolts.

Like today it started raining but the snow is coming by morning.

POV? What's that?I keep my turnouts in the truck.No one was home and the the Chief made contact with some that knows where the land owner is at.

There isn't a fuse for the stock lift pump. All you can do is unplug the pump. It will most likely toss a P0230 code though...

No. Yankneck696 (Ed Grafton) is having problems with the face plates and hole line up. Then on top of that Ed's computer got hit but the a Virus that wipe out not only his but his wifes computer. So I talked him last night and as soon as the face plates show up he's shipping out.

Out here locally I tend not to use seat belts because of the river. I've seen way too many die in the river because usually the impact with the water breaks at least one window and the in rushing of water and typically sand and dirt floating up off the floor board tends to jam the seat belt release. For what ever reason the ones that don't wear a seat belt that do go in the river live and the ones using a seat belt typically drown. Now for the excessive speed thing out here its typically the one that are doing speed limit and faster typically cause the accidents. Now as for seat belts out here in this case more survive head on impacts than without. So its a mixed bag to wear or not to wear.

Well gang... Got woke up to a fire call in Whitebird Idaho. Man what a way to get woke up. Well jumped in my clothes hauled out the door. By the time I got the gate open I heard my crew member responding in Engine 11. Dang I thought I got to get moving. So I beat feet for the fire station in hopes to catch him. Locked up tight. So on towards Riggins, ID. I'm think I got to get to Kelly's place pick him up and hit Station 4. So outside of Riggins, ID I call him on the cell phone alerting him to meet me on the street. Well I meet him and we toss on a turn outs and listen to the radio more. Fire Chief is picking up a water tender at Station 3 and I just happen to see my crew member from Station one make it to town. Wave him down and hauled with him to Whitebird, ID. I left Kelly to ride with the Fire Chief. The reason Engine 11 was behind me is because he never called from the station house he called from at home.So now we get there and it a Shop / Studio Apartment. It leveled to the ground already and still burning. Whitebird fire was trying to fight the fire but under manned. I was first on scene for Salmon River Rural FD. Water was running out and no water point was made. I did what I had to do for water so since Whitebird was only about 3-4 miles away I ran water tender back in forth to the city hydrant for filling. Needless to say it was a very long 12 hours from 3am to nearly 3pm I now got home and settled down, eating, I'm tired, and going to get a nap at least.

No. I think it the other way around I think Dorkweed will be asking for my extra wood I've got over 14 cords. Furnace? Thermostat? What the heck are those? I don't have either device in either building. Just a wood stove in both the main house and the guest house. So I have the task of firing up both stoves and heating both houses.

Failed diodes. I've seen them fail out of the box. Most re-builders or manufactures tend to cut corners and use cheaper China/Japan diodes instead of quality American so the AC voltage is higher.

I burn telephone poles for free wood.

Check over at DAP (Diesel Auto Power) site... http://www.dieselautopower.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=high+idle

You don't need a chimney brush you just need to light the other fire. Then call the Salmon River Rural Fire Dept. (True thing I get plenty of chimney fire calls)Oh I didn't know your party line was nailed to that tree? (Real thing back in the day they used old 1 wire party lines for the USFS look out towers)Oh don't worry about the chimney running horizontally along the ceiling. (The original builder of my house did this with the shop stove!)Can I barrow your chainsaw? (Answer is "Hell No!" with extra ice.)Can I barrow your truck? (Same as above)

Look out below the temperature are going to drop to single digits for my place. That means batten down the hatches and move to the living room for sleeping area. It just too cold at those temperatures to heat the entire house so we shut down the bedrooms and the extra rooms down stairs and just heat the living room & kitchen. Take notice its going to break minimum temp records for those days. Oh man its going to be minus temps in New Meadows, ID proper... Ekkk...

How do you light a wood burning stove?

Just use a little gasoline to start the fire... (BOOM!)My wood is a bit rotten...Firewood is too expensive...Chainsaw(s) are too expensive to fix...Too far to drive to get firewood...My truck is broke down can I barrow yours?Too hard to split firewood...

Way more than typical salt and pepper here. This is just my common collection of spices I've got even more in the basement.

Delay wipers on?Lose electrical connection?Wiper motor wore out?

Between pull the truck out of the shop, then getting to the gate and opening the gate, then closing the gate and locking it, then get to the highway waiting for traffic its had more than enough time to idle and warm up. Starting temps are typically above 32*F.

Yes sir...

Unknown... :shrug:But I don't see too much issues with it. I did hear that AH64ID said something about the fan clutch?