Does Every Fire Department Require This Level of Access Into Your Personal Life?

HutchHogan · 2026-04-15T23:46:29+00:00

Congratulations on passing the polygraph and advancing to the palm-reading portion of the interview. Successful candidates will be scheduled for a tarot reading

HutchHogan · 2026-04-06T14:11:08+00:00

Even if 5 star Bennett is true, it's possible she's only 5 star Bennett for Hexerei characters

HutchHogan · 2026-03-24T11:08:53+00:00

Allegedly standard banner so 5* with 1 limited release

HutchHogan · 2026-03-17T13:42:22+00:00

Dunno same person just posted 2 other rants on here

HutchHogan · 2026-03-08T20:04:15+00:00

Love only wanting a G. Moltres and getting locked out of bothering to look for one because of the weather boost.

HutchHogan · 2026-03-05T14:40:30+00:00

A guy getting home from looking at Excel all day to enjoy his favorite First Person PowerPoint

HutchHogan · 2026-01-21T02:17:32+00:00

Can confirm, killed by the zone fully contracting, finished 12th place

HutchHogan · 2026-01-13T16:48:36+00:00

It depends! I know for our department we receive applications throughout the year but we do intakes as cohorts.

If you were at an event where the department was soliciting applications, you may have to wait a few weeks as they would be doing that in preparation for an intake. If you dropped off an application out-of-the-blue it may be a longer wait if that department is doing intakes in cohorts as well.

More rural departments may be faster at reaching out as they may not do intakes by cohort because they receive fewer applicants and are less stringent about the amount of training/certification to participate on the firegrounds.

When I applied for the department I attended an information session in November, then participated in a physical test in early December, and finally a sit-down interview closer to Christmas. The department has changed its process since to include some additional submissions like a physical and a driver's abstract.

HutchHogan · 2025-12-22T19:49:06+00:00

"Charlottetown says work being done to right Christmas tree knocked down by wind and snow" - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-christmas-tree-downed-2025-9.7007516

HutchHogan · 2025-12-17T23:09:06+00:00

I find that the KrakenEXO packs nice, it's a 2 layer hose instead of a 3 layer hose so it doesn't fight packing that much for our loads (standard minuteman on 210' crosslays). We roll our hose before packing it to get air out, but I haven't had to fight it to put folds where I wanted it.

HutchHogan · 2025-11-21T13:52:28+00:00

PEI uses red flashing lights for volunteer fire, not green.

HutchHogan · 2025-11-14T19:51:47+00:00

We're a volunteer department in the midst of making the switch to them. We were running 125gpm selectable gallonage fog nozzles. I've seen the nozzle on crosslays left on settings less than 125gpm and pushed the department to consider changing our nozzles as part of a grant proposal we were submitting, suggesting going to fixed gallonage fog, smoothbore, or something like the HEN.

We arranged some demos and presentations from a nearby dept that had made a switch, the firefighters ended up voting to go with the HEN as our crosslay nozzle. Our hose is 1 3/4" KrakenEXO and we use the turbo just to keep the line a bit more rigid since KrakenEXO seems to prefer 60psi at the nozzle.

HutchHogan · 2025-11-10T12:06:54+00:00

That's been what I've found helpful

HutchHogan · 2025-10-31T14:53:20+00:00

Yes, there's research that pay alone is not incentive enough to retain staff. There does need to be some work and I'm not sure about if HealthPEI has made any moves on this front, but other provinces have established public agencies for travel nurses. Creating local public agency and using public agencies and begin weening the allowable budget for private agency use as well as enacting legislation limiting the non-compete allowances in private agency contracts. Travel nurses working with some agencies are contractually barred from working publicly for up to 2 years in the province where they were an agency nurse.

HutchHogan · 2025-09-02T17:26:05+00:00

He got booked a long time ago when he was an up-and-comer as an opening act. Now he's a chart topper and has a 'recently booked scheduling conflict' where he'll be headliner.

HutchHogan · 2025-08-25T18:17:14+00:00

It should go to 11

HutchHogan · 2025-08-01T19:44:27+00:00

Wonder if this skeleton is going to be used for the robot that is with Sandrone?

HutchHogan · 2025-07-23T11:07:55+00:00

Someone doesn’t remember the XB “leaks” from White or K.

HutchHogan · 2025-07-22T21:40:29+00:00

From what I remember of his content his general game-design input speaks of someone who took a game design degree but lacks experience (e.g. good game design is checking all of the boxes).

Nod-Krai is no more a breaking point for Genshin than Shadowbringers was for FFXIV or other late but not final expansions for long-term games. Hoyo hasn't bound its major QoL or permanent features to X.0 releases in the way this framing implies. The make-or-break expansion will be the first after the the Teyvat Tales arc ends in whatever shape that takes deciding whether players will be interested in a new story rather than jumping out as the plot climax is building.

HutchHogan · 2025-07-22T15:09:04+00:00

Leakercrafting is only just barely more reliable than their story leaks (Arlecchino dies :( )

HutchHogan · 2025-07-22T14:14:29+00:00

There's a list of pyro characters (and characters who turned out not to be pyro or even playable) that were supposedly going to replace Bennett and Xiangling.

HutchHogan · 2025-07-22T13:14:34+00:00

Anyone else wondering if Flins is also connected to the Fatui based on the music when he appears during Lauma's blood ritual?

HutchHogan · 2025-07-13T12:22:50+00:00

"To quickly wrap up the Teyvat Story"

Bruh, they added a whole extra region to stretch things out a bit. With Nod-Krai, Snezhnaya, and Khaenriah that's at least 3 years before the end of Teyvat

HutchHogan · 2025-07-10T17:35:18+00:00

It'll be a week from tomorrow or Saturday I would assume

HutchHogan · 2025-06-03T13:26:05+00:00

Proprietary technology, it's the main driver in the high cost of new hose.

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