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There was 60 people that came through so I didn't mark I do is actually going through 60 people. Always like there was always an easy to do crowd but we had many comes through the doors for sure as as the which is way that in the last time I think last year was our inaugural one and there's only like half an hour maybe less of a little more than six layers. There was actually a fair amount of people last year to one. A lot of family came last year, which is really cool because you're a really good turnout from the town. Just they knew they'd seen what happened last year and then nothing we can pump the advertising bitterness see her. So I just Socials. Well, I think I think this year we actually got the post up about a week before instead of the day off because last time it was a bit late for the day of yeah, so Ash. What did what did we get up to? What did the whole get up to there when we open at the house, which is really nice. It's really in the name. Yeah, we open the doors let Buddy come and have a look at what we all have going on here. I can start to climb on fire trucks. We got to explain sort of what each track is for. So the kids climbed around the adults ask questions. Sometimes the adults climbed around we did a bunch of demos like that a rescue how not to put out a grease fire what a oven fire looks like and then we didn't are big Grand Finale side by side the two building or the tube to room burnt. one with a sprinkler one one without it was good. Yeah, really we get her a really good day. Yeah, there is fire was a big eye-opener for a lot of people because I mean even ask is we don't we don't purposely make grease fires right often. So we found an old stove actually mild stole from my house and took out a while ago, but we rigged it. So propane around direct you it and it's actually harder to make a grease fire than we thought do you let it burn go for a while, but it was kind of dads around watching. Okay. Well this isn't happening anytime soon. So then they went and did something else. Actually we had a couple cars car doors. That's right. We like the kids kind of run the tools little bit and then they got to take a piece of card or home has crushed pennies. So then they came back and increase my still wasn't ready. So yeah, we gotta go on will ya Kevin? There's a picture of it on Facebook. Kevin came with a little bit of water and dump it in and it's got a pretty good explosion to it. And we're out in the open. So imagining side of kitchen. I've never stayed in that would be the you like just yeah a 20-foot flame outside versus you got three feet and then Cabinetry. Yeah, so it was basically like Napalm. So I opened a lot of people's eyes were very little and then we got going again later did another demo where we actually had the beta sprinkler or not sprinkler. We had the liquid like fuel fire. So we did a little bit of fire extinguisher stuff and got some some of the crowd is running around the fire extinguishers. And then we also I left the stove on fire again to show how like a small fires near sure could put it was dope fire if you I need you but like Bob says the chief A fire extinguisher is like a life preserver. You wouldn't necessarily stick the life preserver in the whole of the thought you needed to get away from the sinking boat. So maybe use it for a second or two. If it doesn't really affect on the fire use it to clear path to get out of your burning house. So that's what I'm not. So Bob always expresses it what does it'll small fire extinguishers are good for ya. A lot of people don't realize those kind of little they're the real small ones I think are like Five painters our sons but painters they run when the other day and it literally lasted maybe four seconds five seconds Max even the big ones the 40-pound ones are those ones. I think even those were maybe 15 seconds. We're isn't a big one and it was going pretty good. We had about five burns out of it five put out sick my colleagues extinguishment extinguishers extinguisher. Everyone everyone left really educated. We have the we had to find it on the stove and it was not very much of a fire. Yeah, it was good because a lot of people haven't seen it haven't seen a fire extinguisher used or out sorry. I haven't used a fire extinguisher. So they didn't know you know the past pull aim squeeze sweep method people don't know that. Yeah, so that part was an eye-opener for a lot of people it was really cool to me because we had like some younger adults. We had a couple of our like some of our local seniors were there they came over. There's a like a senior home really close to us. One of them was my mom. Well, really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The one was more like one of them was talking to somebody who's talking to my missis and there is a couple of around and they're like, hey, like like I don't know if we can do this like, you know is the easiest squeeze and someone's like I'm you know, I might give it give it. I've got like carpal tunnel or I had some sort of set mom on my wrist I go. I wouldn't mind giving it a try. I think that's when your mom went up there. Yeah, and she was over there and also the our local politician. Hey, there's their castles up later. She's like, yeah, who's that? Oh my God, what works no matter what? She loved me. So. And she wouldn't give give her a go and I think even she said he was the first first time so, yeah, I like it can be a little bit daunting if you've never done it before so getting the people up there that haven't operated one kind of just like wow, that's why we practice right? So this is an opportunity where they can go and do it and he's great. It was really well received. Good Mmm Yeah by all the seniors such as one of actually I A little I posted a picture but I'm on Facebook and the guy I know he liked give me a little bit of feedback. He's like no one's wearing gear. I said, well, it's a fire extinguisher said and when that when that really happens, no one's wearing gear like these people is this is for their home like no one's wearing here. Yeah, so I don't remember I don't I didn't want to give them a false sense of confidence of being like I'm in this gear or I guess we did they give since accompany because they'd be like on the on and all this gear. Like, of course, I'm not gonna feel the heat like I want them to feel the heat and we're in a controlled environment. There was literate to firefighter sitting there with hoses ready to do any work that needs to be done and we weren't getting like we're getting as far as ways of fire extinguishers and make it so I didn't feel any danger at all. And when I put it that way, he's like, oh, yeah. He was that make sense. Yeah, it's weird, you know downwind and are all pointing are using the fire put writers dine winds and a long day. And only for seniors went to the hospital successful overall well for the second for the second time through it sounds like it was doubled with kind of at least doubled with turnout. Yeah, and you know that and get the end Double burn that we didn't that really opened our eyes to a few things because it was a sprinkler demo. It was meant to be a sprinkler. No, but it's also I meant to show what a room fire looks like and how quickly it'll go and yeah, you know is that typical like four minutes from ignition point we had full flash over in the room and the sprinkler amazingly enough. We lit it and literally they got to let it be but my daddy came around a building this regarding off so it was in about 30 seconds. Yeah. He's quick and So within about the first ten seconds the Smoke Box we have smoke alarms in both rooms. It's about 10 seconds more. We're going off and then within another 20 seconds after that the speaker popped and interesting thing about this figure didn't put the fire right out, but it definitely could take kept it up Bay kept it on just the one side of the couch that we had it on and eventually the kind of went out and by the end we went up and just hit it with the hose ones. So it would be very that's exactly what it would be like smoldered on through the rest of the demo. Yeah, but it didn't Sprout is just we would still be required and that was telling you learn but It definitely kept it at Bay, which is great. Yeah. Now the other side of that the other half that structure well half the other portion of the burn was they said no sprinkler four minutes / / and interesting thing about that was a smoke alarm started going off and I'd say but million. Yeah, they may be climbing was no longer going off because the smoke alarm which is 99 ceiling had melted and Fallen the ground. So I and I never really thought about that before remember thought about how quickly a smoke alarm will become useless to us. I'm both rooms. Actually. I'm blossoms because yeah the sprinkler hit the other smoke alarm. It's right there one went off and shut off faster. So you get your 30 seconds sprinkler come more seconds or 30 seconds smoke alarm couple more seconds sprinkler cut, you know, maybe another 15 seconds smoke alarm done mmm, because now saturated water So really, I mean we didn't buy those expensive smoke alarms honestly because we knew we were gonna give something to them, you know, we but I you know, I didn't really thought about how cheap is smoke alarms and we've built like it's just plastic. So of course it's gonna melt but it's on the ceiling maybe the heat is so if you're not woken up in the first 30 seconds to a minute on the fire the smoke alarm becomes useless thing. Just something I never really shot. Yeah, and I probably would suggest not my in Electronics next to war you were right. I don't think like I'm looking like right now and I don't think there's a I don't think you ever mount a smoke alarm right next to a sprinkler. Yeah. We just had to for this case because of everything like in his diary room or 10 by 10 room or whatever. But yeah. Yeah, there's definitely interesting to see that stuff. So even Oscars we see fire all the time. I mean the fire itself interesting from the crowd because he did, you know, I'm talking it through my I don't know if we posted on Facebook. I'm not talking it through them like you know right now. Now it's this temperature actually said the temperature wrong because I said I said it in Celsius 500 degrees Celsius I said which is the temperature you could get turkey yet. That's not right. You cook your turkey at 350 degrees Fahrenheit Donuts. Not a thousand degrees Fahrenheit. That's what selfie as would be. But anyways into us like we are all of our guys because again, we have that stress inoculation through light burns and stuff. We're used to seeing that fire. So we're just like everybody's kind of chilling Raw. Item and you know everyone's filming and but in You Hear The Crowd Oh my God exploding and flames shooting out and if you don't see this every day all the time, he's gonna be like, holy crap. This is hot. Yeah, so did did it go full Backdraft to or better than background we can host the video and we will if it's not up there already if you watch that you will get more. Satisfaction higher movie Backdraft to you. So that's curls alluding to that night for some some strange reason. We'd be talking about doing a movie review for a while and that night Kevin actually send a message out. Hey who's here? Who's down to watch Backdraft to tonight? We're actually be said Backdraft. Yeah, so I said, well we're going to watch a movie Let's watch and the newest one which is probably so you did it. I was the worst mistake. So, yeah, so Out of the old movie store, which actually when we post on Facebook a lot of people were more surprised that they're still movie stores around game rentals. What? Yes, yes. We still exists we found one, but tell you what, we didn't need it for seven days even went back the next day. No that night when I drove home car fast. So Backdraft here, we set it to watch. Yeah, yeah, it's either it's I don't know man. So from everyone because I haven't watched it and gladly didn't come but it basically everyone's just say it was a cop movie. Basically a terrible one at that. Like I thought it was a good thing, you know, I was expecting anything from it because really one wasn't that great either. Like I remember when it came out it all like when I was younger all the all the firefighters last best part for movie every will probably only one of the time but it's really not a good firefighter movie. There's no smoke. There's then like them Kurt Russell's Chasing Fire on Xanax the fire runs away from them. It's that weird. It's just but anyways, so I'm not expecting a whole lot from backdrop to other than maybe some firefighting. There was no fires. No man. That's whack for the first scene. There's people using a hose. Yeah first thing I look like super high pressure. No. Yeah. I was like they're just bad. And every fire fighting scene class alarm for days every time there's a fire is happening. Like who's on rent like that guy? Yeah. It was a yeah, it didn't make any sense. Like he was a fire investigator and then movies opening starts with like he somehow sees a guy in a crowd because looking funny at him and he's like, oh that's just started by a candle in that. Sorry spoiler work lowered under the bed. And yeah, it's dollars what Freddy killed her so many tackles them and and then when I think we had posted like do we post that the one I'm a firefighter helmet. This is we have a live. So this is the opening. I'm a fireman. Can we cheer because it's ridiculous the guys it is he saying ridiculous to me. I've seen you do it at least twice as last week. You say we should you say she won't cash ruffle coming up for the rest of the we just went downhill from there. Don't watch it. Give me down hill from there was only there wasn't an uphill every no sense. There's this a complete so that they had their Spinning Wheel of fire fighting terminology, which I think that's how they wrote part of the script. Hmm. Okay. Now we've got these people they're inside of the building and there's a fire pppp pppp flashover. Okay. All right. This is what we're going to do. All right, so you guys are over here hiding and there's a fire in the room and there's Johnny Bag. In the middle of the room and misses it. He says all right, he can't move he knows he can't move because if he moves he's gonna cause a flashover but it was our trip wires. Yeah. So there's a guy whose arms are out to the side and he's like on the verge of being burnt toppings like he's getting hotter in that he needs to leave but he can't leave his if he moves boom flashover. So it's just watching him like almost burn and finally, it's too much. Each forms again. I'm out flashover his partner. Okay, go now they say she crawls into the into the room. Yeah, so he sends her out piece, which is literally everything in the rooms have been on fire and she's okay. So she makes it out. She's still talking and breathing and not burn it all and she's in like a polyester wouldn't break right now. scared no chance and then you he doesn't decide to crawl know. What does he do positive pistol ventilation say takes his gun out pop the window because he has a gun because he hasn't pissed off because he's a fire investigator cop thing. It's not a pack even investigating. Is he running gear? This? Is he going to see beyond this point. He's a coat but he stopped wearing halfway through the movie after we complain enough. It's like he heard us. Yeah for the first half of the movie. Look at this old turnout coat of his dad. So it's the premises. He's the son of bull ball from the first movie of Kurt Russell character first week. So he's wearing his turnout coat like with bowler on the back for the first half of the movie everywhere 1985 old turnout coat and so he's doing like a fire investigation and he's at the diner where an external code. That means like get a shower at this tournament internal cooldown. Is that would wash we need all this is a spread. And then for some reason that they're halfway through the movie stop wearing it was like I don't need that color anymore straight leather for me. Now just a regular comes like is the reports came back from the doctor uses that word. Everyone around you is mega-concert. We think it's your jacket, please not worry. Yeah, then oh, yeah that whole scene. So yeah, she shoots a window out vents for the room, which is I'm like at least two men in the room think that is a cropped building to save some Girl, they crawls partially that down and then of course the pipe breaks and he's hanging and he throws the girl to a little ladder in the building explodes and he was flying like 40 feet through the air and lands a dumpster and no one goes looking for him there. Oh, yeah, he's obviously thinking so the chief who pulls out for others to see it as like, oh there goes someone so fine that looks to be a Baldwin Baldwin, of course. Yeah. So your soccer is over there. You are found you in a dumpster like he can't he can't It out the middle of a heart-to-heart. Well, he's pinned. Yeah, he's down there out of his neck. How's dad died? And I was like what things I love entire. Oh man. So during all this there's a other there's a side story of a missile has gone missing and I'm hunting a missile. The fire department a hunch he has he went rogue is he got pulled off spoiler? Right? He has spoiler. Yeah, because he got suspended for being too Rogue. You're wearing his turn a jacket with me because he didn't wear it where they go mad. If ya don't wear your PPE on that one, and I've learned that I have not been taken advantage of my firefighter giving right to park like a dickhead. Oh, yeah, like anywhere he goes just little Street nail the street. Yeah, put her in p pop. So you like it. I mean it only goes sandwich a little road lights on let's up getting Sammy's words can express a terrible movies. We're trying dude. You didn't pretty well. I think you don't even know man, like like I was a shaped charge gasps thing under the bed is like this. So every time they bad guys are trying to kill him. It was through fire rather than just walking in and shoot him in his apartment because I like set a trap under his bed. Like they should have shown us their I think. Yeah, what are the shoot both of them? So they sent this gas trap under the bed. He's like, ah, it's a gas goes off. It's a shape charge. It's gonna blow me in the air and then Baldwin shows up and was like, I'll say to you by Smashing that our ceiling open and let the gas out into the Where I am and maybe sacrifice myself spoiler alert rather than being like hey gas company. He shut the gas off in this building. Everybody just shut that baby up. No sacrifice myself. They didn't even bother. I'm sure although whoever listens to this nice. Probably we can just upload your guys review the bone. Let's see. My whoever was doing quite well in the acting and we just realized he's got this really old and doesn't know ideas at a move. If you started talking about dragons and stuff is about the dragon the dragon. Yeah. But I think it was about drivers to see the dragon. Did you ride the dragon chased the dragon and I'm gonna drag you here Jason with his Firebox so bad. This sounds terrible. Well, 67% of people like this movie news Rebel that 25. That's why I don't listen to Rotten Tomatoes. They were well, there's more firefighting and Rambo than there was in this movie Rock again is Rollins wins. sixty-seven percent Yeah, no, no. No, he's a Rotten Tomatoes 15% We had sorry that's not better. Yeah, 50% of here Ryan story was written 69 user rating or six men. Yeah stupid users. They will pay guys not giving this more lip service in the desert. Absolutely. Yeah, but still that was hilarious the future we might review some more movies. Actually are maybe good mmm. He Ladder 49 somebody mentioned that if we know now, I haven't seen a lot of 40 hours always watch what I see. It's a it's pretty good. I've been watching nothing. I'm sure I want to start watching Men. She is all that when he was little my ya burnt with the yeah the inner city Detroit Detroit in Troy. Yeah. Did you start watching Rescue Me? Yeah, that's what Kevin not Kevin. Yes. Larry likes. Ya better flirtatiously housing Kevin O'Leary and Denis Leary never seen it never heard of what? Oh, man. Yeah disappointing. Well that's cited atrocious. So I'm glad I missed it. We on a different note our Zima. X which we will get to a little bit later in the show notes. The code has changed and they got back they might help with the stench of this show. That's a perfectly good for anyone. That's the stench of this movie has amassed RZ. Well, we had we had a few people reach out about any regime has pieces but we had somebody who was covering our see mask over your eyes to Blind you blind from so you didn't have to watch it. They were asking about what else we use or what we use the RZ masks wrap the other grass around our heads and have to hear it either three three things right there lime juice deafen you and to completely just remove any sense of watching by crafting. You're welcome public RZ were strewn on Backdraft to these is one of the real purpose is for Real. So yeah, so there's been some questions like I got one. Well, we got one today. I just happened to see it. I know we've touched base on some of the things that we've used them for we've tested them for and they were just asking that okay, I get that. They're like they're great for a while. Then Bush fighting. That's awesome. Just fucking bushes. Yeah. Thank you. I'll get my turn. Okay? Yeah, we wardrobe Elsa last review its great super cozy. So Wildland firefighting it's great for that. We've spoke about it pump operator along of are you know, fire scene? These five operator you're trying to park the apparatus in a way that they're not going to be affected by any sort of smoke or anything but winds change things happen. You can't just pause the surgery down. Yeah. I remember em back up 30 feet. It's fine. So RZ mask upon the pump tack, you know, you're not writing it but you getting some of it so that that helps and you know, we don't say we're not here to say that there. A replacement for SCBA absolutely any means but if you're out in the frames you're out of that idea, uh, but you're still I mean if you can smell it if you're still around it, but you're not in it. It's a great substitute for nothing. Right? I mean, they are a rated a safety rated mask, which is great. They've got readings like they've got a particular rating and you can get different filters for different ridiculous and such so that that That's a really good thing. So we just were as what other uses. Have you tried them in and what other uses would you like to try them in? So round table. I'd like to spray Scott in the face with pepper. Spray it again. That'd be fun for having down. Yeah, that was pretty neat. I want you want red Bears pretty one first, very interested. Yeah be curious medical schools. Yeah medical schools. I mean again, you know, it's It's a good again. It's the go-to of anything. If you've got something is better than nothing and when you go to some of these things you don't know what you're going to come across especially with all the drugs and things that are in vehicles nowadays. Yeah, and how the little exposure you need to be effective when our car fentanyl or fentanyl is not necessarily fentanyl in a car. No, it's it could be track that know it could be. The worse much worse like carpet and all the like white sunglasses. Yeah medical schools for sure. It's always it's it's definitely a good good thing to have on those sorts of bulls for one thing. We noticed in that in the stop oblique. This was I'm like just even the fake blood spray with getting in our face like some guys got hit in the mouth with it. And you know, it's like Kool-Aid water or food coloring and water. So if some of our guys got hit in the mouth with this stuff and they're like, well, yeah, I mean actually not a bad idea to have a mask on, you know, always turn a mass movement and mask a mask my profile I bro. Yeah, you're wanted in those mucous membranes. Yeah. It's about be 1/4 plus 2 is the the fence No, yep for the car stuff for sure farts. Yeah, so, you know drugs medical like the blood the pathogens. I mean even like off here if you can go ahead and place where the sickness not even knowing when to yeah, so that's the medical side Fireside. We already talked about what while and sure mop up. the pump that's is there we use it for. Yeah, that's kind of really stress so far. That's really yeah, but for the instances that we have used them now, everyone has them like we've all got them and they're all in our turnout gear ready to roll. She's the one thing I remembered because I had my own cars. We have the original sample sent to us, like months months months months months ago Frank. Yeah. Yeah because I think I was thinking because I haven't done it yet, but I was thinking unlike around here unreal Cold nights because it's neoprene so we could be actually throw it on and it would actually keep the face warm, right? Yeah. Yeah, it probably was because lots of nights like when we go fight cold like right over there and they're really cold. Like I see bees froze up and stuff and we're still out there doing work put that on your face when people put their balaclavas on stuff but you know don't have his full of sweat and stuff. And yeah. Yeah, it's cold sweaty. Yeah full of toxins that your knight breathing is are you throw that are zmapp? Strong and so we can keep your yeah. Yeah that we keep your face warm. Let's keep going to work. Hey guys now we're just running really making up. No. No, thanks. Well, I'm in the oh, yeah, the three levels of stopping Backdraft to from being being seen is mighty nice and one for your friend in case you know, there's with a warrant. Yeah, I mean, you know we do is promote them each week, but we don't we don't get anything out of it. It's just the fact that they are good masks and they do good stuff. There were raids. What do they end in? 95? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Silver's are 20 20 hours heavy and then you have depending on you can then they're cheap. They always they come with two anyway. Way / my skin then the other fillers are fairly cheap. If you are looking to pick one up then you can get one. I'm just going to shave for Argentina where Kanye robot there. Anyways, yeah pretty much so you can get one from their website. If you use the code, we have our own a DT f f funnily enough if you use the the discount code of DTF F. You will get 30% off of your RZ masks. We Ordered for E all the M ones and I think we saved around 300 or something for bucks from this get chunk. So it definitely works out because again we were getting for the full department but still 30% off is a really good deal. That's so very impressed. Yeah. Yeah. So DTF discount code RZ website do it and it's working like people are utilizing their mentioning that they're hearing things from us. We just great and we really really appreciate that. I was kind of it's just if you can mention like if you're ever in conversation with the supplier of energy or whatever if it's something that we've spoke about even if we're not pumping it like the RZ is or or the motifs, whatever if you hear hear they say yeah because we're always looking to to train and test Out product and It was a long way. Yeah, the more we can get our hands on the more we get to play with the more we can tell you whether it's garbage or not. Like yeah, we'll run it through the burning buildings and we'll run it through the hard tests. And you know, we'll give it a good go and tell you whether it's worth buying or not. So if you even if there's actually something specific that you would like us to test less know, I'll reach out reach out to whoever to see if we can get our hands on some. In fact, we were just recently talking with some friends of ours close by Department that are part of the Very large company that deal with all sorts of fire product who have asked us if they could send us stuff to do exactly that so if there is something that you were looking it test it out or looking at purchasing, that's no bull. Let's hit the irons to it and we'll see what we can do Scott working on so we got runs the show sir. Yeah, right. Jake Miller Likes shares promotes a whole bunch of firefighter content. He's got a harem of podcasts that oh, yeah. It's a word look at that. I think it's it's a group of I'm still on Bush boy. That's just Right. So yeah, it is a social media presence is crazy. Yeah, he's got cheap Miller Chief Miller media. She's Miller ambassadors on the Instagram a lot of power, which I think is over Nazi Miller apparel.com if you want to look into that Facebook, I think he's just cheap Miller. I don't know. What is I'm not really the Facebook site away. Yeah, check all that out guys got some apparel out there. He helps out with her challenge coins, which I think we're pretty much got a small handful left for personal guests, maybe but yeah she Miller. Don't make him do it. The promo code for motifs is DTF F5 will get you five percent. Of your order wedges snagger tools some other fun stuff that they go on the way check them out. They um, oh, so I just saw this new it's like their truck kit so you can customize I think you can like just give money and get the whole kit. It's a pouch snagger a couple of wedges LED flashlight some other crap. stop I do the hand signs. He everyone can sit everybody see this. Hey guys, it's a witness big. Yeah. I don't know whatever that is. He buddy sure quick three three iPhones by three iPhone 6. I like that. You gotta iPhone probably because you're listening to it. So yeah, I'm thinking like duty truck. I'm thinking like any sort of command vehicle be at my side pocket of my guys my personal. Yeah. Yeah. Pull her out and say yeah, it's got it. Hey a plethora of products that that throw up you with your your firefight needs. We gotta check them out. Whatís there on the Instagrams around the Facebook's and the interwebs? Yeah. Yeah. We use their snagger quite often I or at least those of us that have them do it over to you Scott. So during our open house one of our former members who now lives actually maneuver he works for he's a dealer rep for hex armor gloves. No, so he gave me a pair to try not to X for all X. So I'm going to test them out. You seem really good. They're very like they're tactile and they're very like kind of sticky so there seemed very good. So he's he let me test it up there I'ma run through spaces because usually one thing with my gloves for execution, I would blow through them. Yeah, which means she might see how these ones hold up. Yeah, and actually warm their hands armor like summer. Yeah. HEI exide has asked the most is that I had forgotten with the name myself a chi-x armor. Yeah, so So far so good. I mean we're in for 10 minutes, but I felt pretty comfortable. And like I said, they were actually somewhat warm inside and I know it's like because most of my auto xw used they're not warm you found him. Yes, the Thin Lizzy you're on the wrong side chest right there. Yeah, they're all fancy colors in the Whiskey in the Jar there. Check him check like Morgan will tell you what they're really like once Scott Burns room. And when he was look like you like the blue and greens are noticing some how y'all and every one I call. I forgot the bread of the model number is on the model is the rig lizard way. Yeah. Anyways move thin Lizzy's aren't big pigs or what next he likes. Maybe he'll yeah. Yeah. Sort of play around with test. Yeah hex hex on her him cool RZ mask. We've already mentioned them. So yeah, we can skip over that one tsf Unicode Checkmate 30% They're good a lot of bar boys. Okay. Well, if you decide we're Fighters, you lost all of your English English. Are you absolutely know this is all Actually did it their all so no. Fantastic. Yeah good. So I was like me happy. Well that the the bar boys where they his main, right? Yeah. Yeah main, they they do the same as us. But Diane there they yes instead of here. This is my ocean only. This is why would I listen I listen to Nick but You're always in covered intoxication and I pull this one out of the fire. Yeah, she's often Bush as so a couple things. I know that they know that they are fighting for a Dying Breed. They are yeah, I know that they are doing that. It's right and they do a good job. It's raining song. It is ya know the we need to spoof of that time. We're done with this we are. Yeah we all have So they are there the Downing main group of guys. It's out there and I think they're all from a different department. Oh, really? Yeah, all three are from different which is interesting is they all have different takes on things to be like when tacos here. Yeah, but we didn't we would need another person what we need to come regularly to. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, it's like you're all so and they're all which is Cool, they're all from a leadership role one way or the other from each of their departments one of their guys Paul all nothing. Suggests. Got ya Chief really? He's getting his own assembly. You can park like a dickhead. It's a park in the Harbour. That's great. So so they yeah, so they they just started doing their Wednesday box alarms. That's that short run which is really cool. So a lot of those small ones are Nick just as a quick little blurb and it's usually something about some bold leadership or some quick training tip or tactic wherever this last one was about what it was at. Training based and it's sort of well, I think we listen the full episode again. Yeah, so sorry not the bomb slam their last episode the most alarming box allowing the word Joker. Yeah. So then how is more yeah, it was really cool. Yeah. So check them out sounds like they want to get involved a little bit more on the video content the training stuff. They were really pumping our tires if you will for some of our videos, too. We've been putting out which we love and we thank everybody for for following that and commenting and such so there was sort of jungle right now. Yeah. Yeah. We're only two hours away from Farmington. Yeah origin main is a necessity chocolate ones, right? So basically they're Brothers. I'm sorry. So go visit Pakistan, definitely Aryan. However, also Farmington Maine I hear and When I hear it's because of their podcasts that's a house where that accident. Yeah, that was that big propane explosion accident. Yeah sounds like so there's a there's a maintenance guy. They got it like really bad and he's fluctuating between critical and not stable, but it's like the one step under critical so I don't either but maybe he is there a step worse than credible. Yeah, so it's better than that. So it sounded like they didn't expected to make it and now like he's better he's getting better. So there's there's something there. It sounds like the chief for somebody is coming home very came home. So that's really good. Yeah. Yeah, so a couple of the people that were like in a bad way are starting to show so so that was really good and then which kind of Titus and you are our house fire smoke smoke alarm. They did a bit of a save at their department. They had a call from him is like an apartment complex neighbor calls in smell it. I've heavy smoke. So fire department comes gains access to the apartment and here's some dude sleeping on the couch and the whole place is just covered in Smoke and you like burnt is postures. And I've nothing crazy truth version We sober I'm sure I'm sure he's Stones over how everybody was there smoke alarms. He sleep through it was there no alarms like what was the deal exactly how Smokey was the room but it sounded like it was quite Smoky and you know, the guy was assessed and then released but yeah, I mean they're calling it to save I'm gonna have to agree. I mean if he was hard on the liquor, I mean we're we're not saying was but yeah, he kind of slept right through it. Okay, all that smoke inhalation. Absolutely, you know was how that could am. I right good job boys are so good job on that will put barbed. Wish I was Let's go - my Motors probably probably we've talked a little bit already with the are doing its initiative throughout the world is I'm not yeah when we talked about Lots free online training teach it to public. We actually got a pretty good comment. You did Carl. You got a message. Did I probably from a guy in Alberta? Yeah, we have not talked about that yet. No, we've not, you know bring up. Yes. So what happened is shortly after our its kind of ties to our attack attack. Stop bleed all to come together to find it. Did he did he was pretty exciting. Yeah, so you got good. Yeah, I'm not sure the fellows name calling. The last name is Cliff to Cliff contacted us last week. Basically said they were in the Prairies which I think is Alberta for the I don't know what problems he's actually in Alberta scoffs what's going on and they went to a call where the patient was trapped between the seat and the - car outside in the edge of an embankment. There's a car versus semi There's open femur fracture and they're worried that there is going to be massive Hemorrhage. And and also I'm not sure if they were meeting for you by the questions raised. Well, it was kind of both couple things were in their mind. He said he told that yeah, so he said they advised the EMS to tourniquet based on what they've heard from the DTF and solid lead and our Tack and so that's pretty cool. Yeah. As you said he's not sure if they save their life, but it probably surprised eh s guys fit here. Like he's probably put a tourniquet on that. Yeah, because I had school that was very good. I actually sent that for I forwarded that to to dr. Nick as well. So that was awesome. It's it's really humbling when we get things like that come through right like really humbling it one that even people listen to our romulans for an hour. How about Backdraft? But my trusty sorry save some of these two hours of their time obsessing while I'm here literally saving time, but it's always humbling that people the people listened but when people actually take something away and come back to us with something like that and just say hey, you know what after kind of listening and bits and pieces it helped click and now we've we're doing this now our department has changed and we're doing that as a trainer. Officer I have now implemented this new thing and it's working really well. It's awesome. What's the thing back to the bar guys? Like I was happy when Nick the other Nick sent me a message that they were doing stop the bleeding because even if you know, it's simple stuff, but even if one person gets saved from not from it and it was, you know, based on us getting this course and teaching everybody and telling everybody about it. It's awesome. That's what and that's what started leads for. That's what it's called. And that's what this park is for try to spread the word. Absolutely. Yeah, I want to think like I don't think we're doing anything crazy special no miss doing it for stupid about doing it the way that works for us and we're talking about it. I think one of the biggest things in the volunteer, like in fact the cross fire departments everywhere unless you're in the fire department. You don't normally know what fire departments do and when you do it's very rare that you know what other departments do and how they do it and it seems like there's this kind of mystical Cloud that just covers up. Goes on inside the firewall and what they really trained for and how they do it because there's there's videos and stuff. And yeah, you can go on online you can fall into the YouTube holes, but no one really kind of normally break stuff down you have to go and you have to pay for these courses. There are thousands upon thousands of dollars to then sit and take a test which ultimately is Scott said before anyone can pass the test and keep a piece of paper for the rest of their lives right until it's taken away and you can't take that away. So you know it I'm not slumming it at all. It's a good thing that you've gone through and done these things but still there's other ways of getting that that content out there and making sure people understand there's just share it like talk about it. If you do something wicked tell people show people maybe it will save a life. Maybe it'll do whatever but you tell us and if you want to come on we'll bring yeah, absolutely. Absolutely speaking of should do some more interviews. ghost people in shed Let's unleash the people who want to have a chat. Yeah, we have to in the bar was on man. That's the collaboration. It's a we keep putting off. So we'll have to really look into that get that happen. Well, they're all in bed by like 9:00 o'clock only. Yeah or 9 o'clock, which is there 3:00 in the morning, you know, we already on no shirts. Yes. We're at Like if it was pig roasting, we're at about 4:30 in the afternoon new measurement of time is to take Gracie. Sorry about 4:30 in the afternoon or like just about done. We have crispy skin dramatized in we're like, yeah, it's almost done slow. Pull it out get in there get in there. Brilliant. Well, yeah, you will actually be able to get t-shirts soon then but the signs of it. Yeah, maybe - yeah, nice girls dealing with it. It was not in my did it second alarm dot-org second alarm dot-org. Our buddy Matt. It's coast East Coast man. Is he has second alarm don't East Coast was he like in trial? No. Oh no. He's in a state, New York. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. I thought you just a bunch wrong or just below trying to I mean sure I don't need you over fees. I mean, yeah. Well I do know is he's not in Canada. He was from Kevin. Yes. Yeah. Second alarm to alert me West Coast. Yeah, I guess we're wife, right we're like way in like, yeah, I guess he's ghost. He has a cold boot cycle second low note. They are trying to raise attention of communities and people's and the world. Hopefully one day but definitely on a national level on what we do is Volunteers in the fire service and try to get more and more people involved and spread the word that you know, this is a fun thing to do and great for the communities and You know building of phenomenal relationships that will last for a long time including experiences and all the other great fun sassy things that you can get through doing this kind of stuff. So take the time go check out second alarm dot-org help out in any way you can yeah great great calls, and then we've got us. Yeah, we're ready. Yeah love us ma'am. We do stuff. We're pretty alright sometimes things The reason videos of the hotel in stuff that got your okay. Yeah, they go got quite a lot of Charities and like sees any that's a big thing Smiley's the things that we can do the anybody can use among all the fancy prop. Some training facilities are great. But like those those videos were in the bay and from just outside the door. Yeah, that's something Continues clicking easy doesn't take anything special and some of the any member can go on take on right? So I think those those are having the cool videos of librarians, you know further down CPR stuff like that ladder asking those things are wicked. But yeah, we've gotten great feedback from those easy things quick and easy like we were right there. We show all three in 35 minutes. I think by the time we'd set up and we were done. We don't we're broke down in that to and back button for way. We're doing the talent here. That's the tough part was hate to clean them roll. I don't know. I know they weren't as big a fan of it as we are. Yeah, they're talking about Trucks and one of the mix wasn't a big fan of humor. Which one do they use something different. They went back to this to flatly. I think are followed. So for some of the things and it is very one. Yeah, they were talking about maybe trying to Minuteman out. Yeah, there was talking about that and it's funny because everybody like they said yeah the AAA like they like your Blaine. I don't like I've never met anyone who likes that thing, right? Then in fact of the pores pretty cool, which I can't remember seeing one deployed lately because none of us around here use them anymore. I think the one guys up on the hill. Yeah, they still use it. But I've ever seen it in Washington pack it up watching pack it up is a nightmare and I'm like I know but yeah, you don't have to you know pack me up shouldn't be shouldn't be your biggest problem because it's after the fires over that's from usually a fairly or not surfing and we've been doing it all wrong. Yeah. They said oh, yeah, usually Mitchell impacts of the hose. That's a bad. The bar boys said Mutual Apex balls. We happy to neuron that's never taught. If you're listening time. You're getting pictures are gone to some fires another department of pack of Rolos We Trust our Haggard but, you know, we always get it done yeah, yeah. Yeah weird interesting interesting. Yeah, I want it. Yeah, I mean again it's that we don't talk about things that everyone should do we talk about things that we do and maybe it will work for somebody else to even rolls work for us, especially in a lot of the Situation's we are not getting ourselves into yeah. Yeah. It sounds like they had some deployment issues. Yeah, and we've made really wrong we've done. Couple times a Cleaver always come out and it hasn't deployed. You know a person pulls alongside hooks hooks up funny and deployment issue happens, but in the end we get started out just by pulling open a links and doing a quick relay of it. So, I mean, it's never been like super Tangled. Yeah. I've never seen it where it's regarding employable. You're like, I've seen Minutemen dropping Heap and you're trying to sort through it. I've seen other ways drop it he'd been trying to sort through it. So it Yeah, none of them nothing ever to place perfectly. They're also way easier to carry. I find then don't rolls NZ we easier you can carry out on like getting out there and adding a couple lengths on relatively easy. I mean it's a game for us it works. So well definitely no the Wildfire stuff to when you're at our flight in the bush. Yeah, wait man with that much is coming at you. Check us out if you like because we're stitious Meyer Friday. It's got all right. Thanks everyone for listening stay safe if it's your phone.
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