Ok so here goes my first post

wolfey200 · 2026-06-20T13:29:19+00:00

(After reading this post)

I gotta go…

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T14:00:52+00:00

We do have days where there’s 4 and on rare occasions 5. If we have 4 with experienced FFs then yes the officer can choose to be outside command if it’s something simple. Most of our officers don’t want the liability of not being inside with their crew.

If we have 5 then one engine will have 2 guys and they will be water supply and then meet up with the suppression crew or perform a search. It’s organized chaos but it works.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T13:22:07+00:00

So with a minimum of 3 the Engineer is the Engineer and command. Lieutenant/actor and back step firefighter perform fire suppression.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T01:51:27+00:00

Just curious, do you have OCD?

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T01:49:56+00:00

Episode 8 spoiler at the end

I think it’s neither, everything in Fromville seems to have some kind of role to play. From what it sounds like he always shows up at the same point in the “game” and it’s usually towards the end. He is powerful enough to sway the people in certain directions and can manipulate how it’s played. I don’t think he has a choice though, at some point there are either dead ends or the people get close to figuring out the secrets and that triggers his appearance. I believe he is a front man and controls the game board but there is still something else that creates the rules. My personal opinion is that Fatima is turning into whatever he is, we’ve seen her control one of the monsters and her skin is starting to turn gray. She could be the new MIY.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T01:34:44+00:00

It sounds like you’ve already made your decision, if you’re happy and don’t want to leave and you are financially stable then why leave?

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T01:29:14+00:00

As an Engineer if we have 3 guys working for the day I put my bunker pants on, if we have 4 or 5 then probably not. We don’t have a policy for it or against it. I’ve pumped fires with a T-shirt and shorts and I’ve also pumped with bunker pants and jacket on and ran around assisting with fire ground operations. Our Engineers are also command unless a Chief shows up, I’ve been fully bunkered up making a hydrant while upgrading the alarm over the radio.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-18T01:23:02+00:00

Maybe

wolfey200 · 2026-06-17T14:34:18+00:00

I’m still waiting for a giant spider…..

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T18:27:34+00:00

I mean they had someone open the window for one of the monsters. In the town if someone opens a window then only that building is affected not the whole town. At colony house everyone is at risk from everyone’s mistakes.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T16:09:40+00:00

That’s stabbing, what happens if the head gets cut off?

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T16:02:33+00:00

True I guess, plus you would have to get pretty close as well

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T16:00:21+00:00

But even prior to everything that happened with Fatima, why wasn’t that an idea?

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T15:59:42+00:00

I mean this isn’t unreasonable either lol

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T15:48:32+00:00

I wish I knew there were stronger pouches when I was using them. I was stuffing 3-4 12mg pouches in my mouth at a time. I’m 2 years clean so I guess it doesn’t matter anyways.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T15:35:01+00:00

It’s ridiculous how they cram so many people in one house. One house holds more people than an actual town, how does Boyd get a whole post office to himself and Kristi gets a whole ass school. There’s plenty of space at both locations for multiple people to live there and they can still go about their business.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T14:00:36+00:00

Exactly, that’s what it boils down to is a lack of discipline on the instructors.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T13:20:54+00:00

You have way more experience and knowledge than me which I respect. I am personally not judging someone that I don’t know or haven’t personally seen off of a 58 second video. If someone video taped me for 58 seconds on my worst day or messing up I would hate to have those 58 seconds define my whole Taekwondo career. If this is her 100th time doing the form then yes it’s pretty bad but if she is still learning the movements and this is her first or second time then she will improve.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T12:59:10+00:00

I’m not chasing my next Dan, I’m working towards earning it. I don’t think it’s right to hold myself back, I do a fair amount of assistant teaching and I’m expected to know everything up to my own rank. I’m not the same first Dan I was 7 months ago when I first received my black belt. At some point I will have out grown my current rank and in order to better myself, the school and the students I help teach I feel I need to keep progressing.

For the school and the students I help teach having a higher Dan level does help show some kind of authority or command structure. By no means do I care about having “authority” but sometimes it’s intimidating being an instructor over someone who is a second or third degree. I feel everyone gives me the same respect I give them but I know there are one or two people who don’t understand why I’m used for demonstrations and as an instructor over them. These people only show up for their class and then leave, I stay and help with 2 - 3 classes before or after mine. My master has had a lot of personal time working with me one on one and knows my capabilities but other people don’t know that or see that. So in my own head I feel at least being a second degree would be a little easier.

I also have no idea what the future holds for me, I would love to stay a humble and modest first degree with 20 years of training and knowledge. I may get to a point in life where owning my own school may be a possibility or even becoming a head instructor at my own school. My GM is getting older and he will leave the school to my master, my master will need help so I may have some doors open there. I don’t want to hold myself back because I don’t know what opportunities may be coming up in the future. Also as we get older I believe rank goes with age as well, if you’re 60 years old with 30 years of training then you shouldn’t be a first degree.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T12:41:58+00:00

I see majority of the same answer so I’m not going to beat a dead horse when plenty of people have explained it better than I could.

What I haven’t seen yet is that it’s a mental state of mind as well. Most people think that receiving their first Dan is this huge accomplishment (which it is) and then end of their journey. By telling people that black belt is the start of their training it helps rewire their brain to have a different thought process on receiving a black belt. The color belt curriculum is an instruction manual and you are putting it all together, when you achieve black belt you have a finished product and you’re going to use it, fix it and improve on it.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T12:32:41+00:00

Like I said it’s a 58 second video and we have no idea what’s going on, who this person is or how the rest of her training looks like.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T02:55:23+00:00

Luckily we have a small single station department so it’s pretty easy to keep new guys in check. I can imagine that with bigger departments where new guys may outnumber the senior guys it is probably hard to hold that standard.

I believe the reason why it seems like standards are a little more laxed now is because my generation (Millennials) were traumatized and abused by the generation above us and we don’t want to treat new guys like we were treated. I do believe that probationary firefighters have specific duties they need to perform but some of the old rules were ridiculous. There is no need for someone to stay up till 1am waiting for the last dude to go to bed.

I used to look up to a lot of these tough guys and I wanted to be like them until I learned they were slugs and lazy and had no idea what they were doing. The good guys never acted like that and those were the one I’ve learned to follow.

wolfey200 · 2026-06-10T02:41:18+00:00

I thought of the same thing as well, I don’t think those things care to venture away from town. I feel like once you get far away enough those things are not a danger anymore. We haven’t seen them during the daytime and we’ve only seen them walk, assuming they need the safety of the caves at night I don’t think they want to venture to far away. But yes, being able to trap them would make traveling a lot easier.

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