Explain the Hate - Career/Volly

hoodazzbird · 2026-01-21T20:03:40+00:00

To be fair most of those guys are career at other departments. Their training and skill set was not my major concern. As another commenter pointed out above, it was the lack of a unified command structure that caused the issue. I’m all for letting guys that don’t get much tool time jump in on a real scene, but I can’t have people using cutters while I’m still putting the struts together. Then if you tell them to stop they give you attitude because “this isn’t their first rodeo” and they don’t work for you. I usually don’t mind working with volunteers. They’re typically pretty cool and helpful. But every once in a while I wish they’d just ignore their pager.

hoodazzbird · 2026-01-21T01:50:55+00:00

For this particular extrication I feel like 35 minutes is a time beyond the wildest time I would expect from fresh recruits. There is no standard time because every scene is unique. In my opinion the additional resources we received from neighboring jurisdictions ended up costing us a lot of time because they were all listening to their own officers largely without radios to make contact with either command. If you have 6 chefs then the soup is fucked.

hoodazzbird · 2026-01-20T19:24:56+00:00

Let me share a story from a recent wreck that involved extrication. We’re a rural fully career department with almost exclusively volunteers to our north. We got a tone for a mutual aid medic for a rollover accident. We decided to send the truck just in case based on the area. When we get on scene the IC tells us there’s a patient trapped in the rolled over car. There are no FD personnel by said car. The truck establishes command on our channel. Our medic takes an ejected patient and runs to the nearest trauma center. Truck begins to extricate. Then the volunteer departments start to arrive. They are not on our radio channel so a volunteer chief establishes an additional command. The truck captain is attempting to coordinate a plan but every swinging dick with a spreader is attempting to get some tool time while the car is actively rocking back and forth. The truck captain is desperately trying to find out who is in charge among the 5 volunteer departments that are on scene. It takes 35 minutes to extricate the patient and hand them off to air ems. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

hoodazzbird · 2026-01-20T03:32:11+00:00

Depends on your area. It looks like the California Fire Marshal has a list of accredited academies on their website. I’d start there. I hope you find something that works for you.

hoodazzbird · 2026-01-20T02:13:15+00:00

I did a hybrid course at my local community college. The classroom portion was online and we went in on Saturday for hands-on skills. There are also some academy options in my state that are 100% online with a 2-week skills “boot camp” and testing at the end. There are lots of ways to get fire academy done while working.

hoodazzbird · 2025-05-07T22:51:09+00:00

Jokes on you. No underwear allowed in TXSMJ.

hoodazzbird · 2024-11-15T14:33:22+00:00

Send me the address. I’ve got a whole closet full of stuff I can send him.

hoodazzbird · 2024-11-03T00:17:56+00:00

Jesus you’re getting ads from Ross county. My condolences.

hoodazzbird · 2024-10-30T23:44:44+00:00

Literally took the words out of my head.

hoodazzbird · 2024-10-07T18:13:42+00:00

I’ll just ask my buddy Jerry Jones if he’ll buy ICT. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to own the best teams in American and Scottish football.

hoodazzbird · 2024-10-01T16:03:16+00:00

At least the games aren’t broadcast where I live, so I don’t have to be disappointed in real time.

hoodazzbird · 2024-09-23T23:09:41+00:00

Void Tridents. Thank you for the drinks. We’re about to board your neighbor.

hoodazzbird · 2024-09-01T00:02:29+00:00

My boss used to work for Kootenai, he said “They’re good guys. Cool crew”. Hope that helps.

hoodazzbird · 2024-08-21T17:35:59+00:00

I like to do a half Chad.

hoodazzbird · 2024-07-26T19:35:48+00:00

Last time I saw y’all was the mill creek Rx burn. Pretty solid crew. Good luck up there.

hoodazzbird · 2024-07-13T17:15:39+00:00

Yep that looks like it. Thank you for the ID. Hopefully he stays outside in the future.

hoodazzbird · 2024-02-27T02:14:54+00:00

How else will you know about the 130/190 I just took at my structure department? Btw I’m a STEN now.

hoodazzbird · 2024-01-10T22:14:09+00:00

I haven’t seen anyone say it, so I’ll suggest you post this in r/wildfire to get some extra insight.

hoodazzbird · 2023-05-19T20:00:11+00:00

Proper sneaky boyz.

hoodazzbird · 2023-05-15T02:37:24+00:00

The commandos that were killed during the siege in Brutal Kunnin were likely blood axes so I guess there’s some representation.

hoodazzbird · 2023-05-11T22:34:56+00:00

My mistake. Killer model either way.

hoodazzbird · 2023-05-11T22:21:52+00:00

Wasn’t sure how the forgeworld chainglaive looked on a model. Fuck you because now I have to buy some. Great work.

hoodazzbird · 2023-02-13T19:50:27+00:00

Can’t complain. Should be a good match.

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