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Ritterskoop · #1 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:59 pm

I have one more morning left of this emergency response team training, and it's a doozy: we do live fire exercises tomorrow, including LIVE FIRE. I start on the medical treatment team, but we all cycle through all four stations, and we all get to put out our very own fire.

It will be nice to go back to working at nights. This 8 a.m. stuff is just weird.

Here's the program we've been doing all week:

http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/

SportsFan68 · #2 Post by **SportsFan68** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:24 pm

Same here! Except I think the 8 a.m. thing is normal.

Have fun at your fire training, and may you never have to use it.

kayrharris · #3 Post by **kayrharris** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:30 pm

I don't have to be to work at 8AM but I do work days...when I work!

However, I am semi nocturnal and stay up way to late every night.

Good luck with the training. Why are you doing this? I forgot...sorry.

Ritterskoop · #4 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:54 am

kayrharris wrote:
Good luck with the training. Why are you doing this? I forgot...sorry.

Unlike much of the team, who were voluntold, I volunteered. Most of the others are maintenance, security, like that. They Know Stuff, and they know where stuff is.

The idea is if we have a hurricane or earthquake or whatever, police/fire/medic will be busy, so we could maybe help get the paper back up if we were lightly damaged. The paper is essential to communications - after Hugo many people had no power for 2-3 weeks, and we were their sole means of knowing where to get help.

We have to tell people don't laugh about an earthquake. There's a fault line running up here from Charleston. It's not very active, but the idea of these teams is to prepare for stuff that may never happen, but if it does, you have some basic skills to cope.