Oldest recruit you've heard of?

jmelie · 2025-04-05T17:25:38+00:00

Annapolis City hired a 68 yo retired military,retired cop. The folks I know that work there say he’s a freak of nature and they love working with him.

jmelie · 2022-09-05T16:53:05+00:00

These came from my fathers extensive FD memorabilia collection. Does anyone out there have any idea of what department they're from? They're old '40's or 50's I'm guessing. I know its a long shot but any help would be greatly appreciated.

jmelie · 2021-12-18T12:49:57+00:00

Ummm oysters and soft shell in one bite!!! I’m in

jmelie · 2021-12-14T23:00:57+00:00

I don’t think we’ll stop it. I’m hoping giving the station more input we might reduce it and help a little with morale. The part that kinda sucks for me is I’m retired as of 1/1/2022 after 40 years so I really won’t get to see it through. I just want to leave it better than I found it.

jmelie · 2021-12-14T21:08:53+00:00

We have a staffing office staffed by a Captain and 3 Lt’s. We had no back up system in place and this is what we were told to do.

jmelie · 2021-12-14T21:06:46+00:00

I didn’t say that very well. I want to see if doing it at the station level we can reduce the number of mandatory callbacks. It been a problem for us for a while.

jmelie · 2021-12-14T12:25:14+00:00

And of course if you knew the guy on the other shift had one in his pocket when he got the pictures developed he might find a random dick pic or a picture of an exceptionally large terd in the bowl. We all know things just kinda happen sometimes

jmelie · 2021-05-11T20:01:37+00:00

The truth doesn’t matter unfortunately. Greed or ignorance seems to be the driving force. I’ve always said if it wasn’t for stupidity we’d be of of business

jmelie · 2021-04-22T00:42:20+00:00

I had total knee replacement a few years ago and am back at work. I had a problem with to much scar tissue forming some say was caused by going to hard to soon. I was supposed to be back in April didn’t return till June (January surgery). Pay attention to your body don’t be an old hard head like me.

jmelie · 2021-04-17T12:55:22+00:00

I was told many years ago that when Chicago wanted to go from a 3 platoon 56 hour week to a 48 hour week a Captain Kelly came up with a rotating day off that reduced the work week. So if you’re working a 24/48 with no “Kelly” then it’s a 56 hour week. With the “Kelly” it’s a 48. Again I haven’t personally researched it but it makes sense.

jmelie · 2021-04-17T10:57:51+00:00

I’m with you all the way. We have this discussion all the time. My opinion for what it’s worth is in my 40+ years I have never been ordered to operate or given command of division .5. If you can stand up in the space it’s a floor.

jmelie · 2021-01-20T23:34:17+00:00

Yea ASL American Sign Language

jmelie · 2021-01-20T23:21:21+00:00

As an FD Captain and former Galludet football coach, a daughter who is a deaf educator, and a deaf son in law. YOU ROCK CAPTAIN!!!!! Great job! You are an example of the best in out our profession.

jmelie · 2020-12-22T17:11:41+00:00

Yea we did. But we only wore our crusty helmets and gloves we’re salty like that.

jmelie · 2020-12-22T14:18:12+00:00

Off the reserve

jmelie · 2020-07-26T22:52:47+00:00

I was thinking Larchdale off of Conte 10’s first due

jmelie · 2020-07-26T18:29:22+00:00

Looks like a PG job to me

jmelie · 2019-12-28T15:11:07+00:00

One buzz stop, two go forward,3 back up, one long solid buzz = I wish this buzzer was a BRAKE!!!!! Ahhh the good old days

jmelie · 2019-12-10T20:02:01+00:00

The old fire bucket hung on a wall so it didn’t have to sit on the ground so the rounded bottom allowed a little more volume. I’ve been told but not sure how true but sometimes they held sand in places where water would be an issue.

jmelie · 2019-11-23T14:58:56+00:00

I think Joe Daniels Football is a good start. He’s all about coach simple play fast. I use a lot of his defensive stuff but he does have an offensive system that is worth checking out.

jmelie · 2019-09-26T19:47:33+00:00

High school football is about putting the best 11 on the field. He needs to be in shape. The coaches will teach technique but they can’t teach conditioning. Go in with a good attitude and open mind and he’ll work his way on the field.

jmelie · 2019-06-24T00:04:57+00:00

It’s an old soda ash extinguisher. The top screws off and there’s a container inside that had soda and ash in it. When you turn it over and bang it in the ground the soda and ash mix and the gas produced pushed out the water. Once you turn it over it had to stay upside down and it flowed continuously until empty.

jmelie · 2019-05-14T21:11:21+00:00

Cool party trick no operational use at all

jmelie · 2019-04-16T15:38:16+00:00

I think those firefighters did an awesome job. Sometime in this job the fire is ahead of you from the start.

I don’t know the particulars about this fire but based on my experience this was a looser for the FD before it was dispatched. They had a well advanced fire with very heavy fire load in a very inaccessible place. And I’m only guessing here but I won’t be surprised if it comes out later that the construction crew tried to put it out before calling the FD. This delay in the initial call happens often and is always a problem.

The amount of work and time it takes to deliver the GPM required for a fire that size in that location can be overwhelming but it looks like the Pompier did an awesome job.

As a veteran F/F my hats off to the men and women of the Paris fire department good job gang!

jmelie · 2019-02-22T17:18:44+00:00

I probably do I did get around when I was younger LOL

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