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From: <Jbdvr@ao*.co*>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:04:28 EDT
Subject: thoughts on emergency services and ''personal preference''
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
List,Being a cave diver and firefighter/paramedic with a ''good size'' fire 
dept,(20 stations and 375 members) for the last 17 years. i often think how 
DIR is almost universely practiced in emergency services, vs ''personal 
preference''. From day one in rookie school you are taught how to rig and 
wear protective equipment including the air mask in a safe and streamlined 
manner. Everyone is required to wear their gear whether dept issued or 
purhased by oneself in a similar manner, so that in a dangerous enviroment, 
with zero-vis, in a unfamiliar location,( like cave diving?) in a out of air 
emergency, each firefighter can locate his buddy by touch contact alone and 
locate his regulator to begin emergency air sharing. this is drilled into the 
new firefighter in burn buildings for weeks on end. i can't imagine how many 
firefighter deaths we would have if each member was allowed to configure 
their gear according to their own personal preference. I asure you it would 
be a huge cluster f...   Even the pumpers and ladder trucks or set-up in a 
similar manner so anyone can locate a critical piece of gear off of any 
vechile in a emergency. As for George Irvine being a loud mouth hard ass, you 
should hang around a firehouse for a few years and listen to the veteran 
firefighters go after the shiny new rookies that act like they know 
everything when in fact they have yet to puke into their mask at a major 
structure fire. It reminds me of the wild kingdom  T V show where the lion 
goes after the gazzel. NOT a pretty site!           joe boone
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