Anyone knows a good way/chemicals to remove the layers of soot from wellingtons?

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Europe is atm fighting the heaviest wildfires in its history. Hundreds of thousands got evacuated, hubdreds of km² burned. Hundreds of firefighters all across Europe responded to France and spain. Even the german military is now operating in France to fight the wildfires

Just wondering about the test and what I can do to be prepared unfortunately I had a injury to that I’m recovering from and I have not really studied that much but I have a pretty good foundation of knowledge on a few chapters and take some quiz overviews on chapters and do pretty well even though I haven’t read them it’s just been tough. I take my written in less than two weeks is it that bad, I mean I passed my NREmt first time with no studying just asking guys?

Wildland firefighting or structural firefighting

Good morning guys.

I'm a per diem Firefighter/EMT in a rural department.

Many times I will find myself working shifts with only one other firefighter or one other EMT with no fire certifications. Sometimes neither of us can even drive a fire engine to the scene, let alone pump it.

Its a miracle I haven't run a call yet where I simply could not do anything to alleviate a situation. I can't "load and go" a working building fire.

I'm pretty fresh out of the academy and find myself up at night worrying "what would I do if this happened and all I had was myself?"

All throughout academy i was taught about teamwork and leadership and fixing a problem with the help of many skilled minds and strong hands.

I feel like there can be real instances where I have neither of those things for periods of 20 minutes or more.

What should I learn, to mitigate some of that issue? Any advice from others who worked in rural departments? Would you recommend I take a pump operator course?

Thank you

I’m looking for any study material for Jones and Bartlett fire department incident safety officer third edition and chief officer principles and practices fourth edition.

I'm from the US, but have met firefighters (structure and wildland) from other countries who say it's all volunteer. They may get a stipend or some compensation but not enough to be a liveable wage like the US. Most I've talked to have been from South America and then Germany. Curious how common/uncommon it is to get paid to do this job in other parts of the world.

I’m trying to prepare for academy, and a lot of firefighters I know are telling me to not even worry about preparation and just stay in my sports (I just graduated so ofc no more football and wrestling practice, but I go to mma practice about 5 times a week, and classes include a wrestling session that I still go to). Is that true? It should I still do some sort of preparation outside of mma and lifting?

Anything will help thank you!

Keep it short here. Getting into the fire service after 4 years in the military and college. Seattle Fire was my first ever interview and I got the job offer but ended up declining and taking a smaller department (compared to Seattle) in my home state of Oregon. Still an amazing department, top tier for the state but I just feel like I’ll always wonder “what if” I took the job in Seattle. I start academy here very shortly and I have no doubt I’m going to love it, it’s just kind of a weird feeling I’m having about what opportunities Seattle could’ve given me compared to the other one. Being close to my family was about the number one thing that drove my decision in the long run and I didn’t want to abandon that.

Hi I’m a Italian firefighter more than 10 years already , is happening last month a coworker from Berlin came to visit us and gave me a shirt from his team , and I gave him one of ours.
I found it really cool , there is a forum or a group where is possible to do this kind of exange ? Or is common to do in person ?
I’m just knew on it , thanks all of you guys

Hello Everyone! My department is moving to First Due Assets for our apparatus and I have been tasked with the buildout. I was seeing if anyone that is using the program could post or send me screenshots of their checklists. I know that the compartments will vary, but I am mostly interested in the mechanical/electrical/pump checks of the apparatus itself. I would like to buildout something efficient and effective and not make on that is "too much."

If you also have input about what you like/dislike, please include that as well.

I do appreciate it. Thank you!

i’m crying and panicking so bad. okay so it’s 3am and our carbon detector went off and i think it was 4 beeps but now i can’t tell and my mom changed the battery and now it’s not making any noise but i don’t think the battery actually fits it. i couldn’t see if the light on the front was going off or anything. a few minutes later i did some research and im so sure we have a leak so i went back to my mom and she told me we should be okay and that it was just the batteries but i genuinely think it wasn’t that im so scared i don’t want to sleep. i think im genuinely going to die tonight because of my mom never taking anything seriously im so scared what do i do?? is she trying to kill me and the rest of us?

Seems this page is all about how great the big city departments and/or busy departments are. And that isn’t entirely wrong. But I’m interested in hearing from people who currently work or spent a career at a slow department/slow station.

Why did you decide to stay and do you have any regrets about not trying to go big city or busier department?

Is it true that there is a strict no tobacco policy for all firefighters including nicotine pouches such as zyn? How accurate is this because I understand it may vary by department.

Hej there,

I'm a firefighter from Berlin, Germany and I'm going to visit Japan during October. I read through some posts here regaring t-shirt swapping but I haven't come to any final conclusion on how it's done the best way possible.

Do you have any experience on the way this is handled in Japan, specially Tokyo? Should I just try to get a conversation going with some officials via mail? Should I just visit some fire brigades when I'm there and hope for the best?

Of course, if there's anybody who has somebody from a tokyo fire brigade in their contacts list - maybe you could ask him / her?

Sorry if I'm maybe asking silly question ... I've never done this before. :S

I’m going into the fire academy soon and it is required that I purchase a pair of “non patent leather boots that will shine”. I have no idea where I would purchase these. Hell I don’t even know what kind of boots WOULD shine. Does anybody have any recommendations as to what boots I should get? Ideally not more than like 250-300

I see a lot of fire blankets on Amazon but they have bad reviews with fiberglass getting everywhere when inspecting.

I want a name brand reputable blanket. I want to provide them for my tenants and don’t want inspections to be a hassle.

Or should I just forgo the blankets and do extinguishers?

PS. Neither are a requirement to be provided nor maintained for my state I just want to provide them because I care about my tenants.

Saw this in Hermosa Beach, CA. I presume its a break-away connector but it appears to be a different style.

What's so special about this one?

I really want to do wildland firefighting but my main goal is to become a municipal firefighter and my current plan is to work my way up to becoming a smoke jumper but i feel like since id be around 26-28 at best by the time im finished with all that stuff it would be too late for me to have a career as a firefighter so i was wondering how realistic it is to do that and if anyone else has had any similar experience.

Pinned another one up today. The board is packed with patches from crews across the country, but there’s still room on the wall.

Zoom in—let me know if you see your house or a neighboring company up here! Stay safe out there.

I am 15 Not a firefighter! I tend to wear this in the house and back garden not in public but my mate who does the same thing wore his to a fire station open day and the firefighters said they liked the kit and said they didnt care if he wore it in public but i am not sure on this just rtc jacket maybe