Hello and welcome to the volunteer firefighter podcast where we listen in to a group of rural firefighters as they give their opinions on the challenges. They face both on and off the fire ground. We release a new episode every week. So please hit that subscribe button leave us a rating and share this with your fire family and friends now onto this week's episode. Where as always we ask the question. Are you DTF? Hello and welcome to the volunteer firefighter podcast. My name is Carl and tonight. I am joined by four members of my firefighting family. Eyelash. Hey guys, I have Rob. Hey there I have Scott hello, and we're joined by a very special guest Keri. Hey Gary join us today, but first. We're going to go to Ash and actually got some for me. Yeah, so we're sitting here tonight November 10th. So tomorrow is in Canada is Remembrance Day. Our friends to the South is Veterans Day. So we just want to take a moment and recognize the men and women in the military that are serving today that have served and Pay the ultimate price in the past. So yeah on this Remembrance Day and it's a hundred years this year as well the anniversary that's right of Armistice Day. I'm gonna sexiest that's a big word. Yes. I promise it wrong sailor Carl I missed this. Oh sure that is funny is there would be no we try to make them see things all the time. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you all of you for your service. I doubt any of them listening to us because that's like crabs overrun the in the fire service to Rachel. Yeah, I remember this a members. They also got a another another piece of news there ice which is pretty important too. Yeah, so I've hit more local for us here a firefighter. Let's see here captain and Jo Kohler color. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it, right. So 29-year member to the Kelowna fire department. They released a statement. When it says with heavy hearts that they announced the line of duty death of brother Joel Koehler Captain Koehler passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family after his battle with cancer and 29 years of service with the clinic fire department. I think this is especially around here one of the first cancer lighter Duty deaths that they're recognizing locally here. So that's a pretty big thing. So again our thoughts Go out to our brothers and sisters up north in Kelowna. Yeah, rest easy, brother. We'll take it from here. So on to the less serious notes of the rest of our episode Carrie Carrie, welcome back. Thanks for for know. So did anyone say yeah a long time ago. It's one of the various very earliest ones and then it could have been episode 4 return to carry pretty sure as our friend. Dr. Watson to we did too. Yeah bad Star Wars. But that's another whole nother robbed at Hope but care. I don't how long have you been on our department here? Hmm six years, maybe yeah, I think coming up to six years and then you were on a department before I is it yeah fully paid know it was a combination, right? Yeah. So there was a five people there that were full-time and then the rest were paid on call. That's where you learn who your mat not skills. Yes. I got my 1001 there. So yeah. Carrie to hurt anyone. Yeah good for her. Wow. Sorry on that they're making it like more so I never got I didn't have my my first aid like I don't know it so I never went and got the seals or anything because as already working at the fire department, so then just now since I've been doing the EMR, I was like I should follow up and just get my seals and stuff and they're making it really difficult. So I'm like struggling to get my Ticket that says that I'm qualified really? Yeah. Well, what are they being a pain with like all of it? They've apparently be don't they just change the rules out there and I guess they have you don't do it in two years I can say no, so and also well I shouldn't say this on here. But yeah, it was very very close. A lot of things. We shouldn't in conversation with like I thought it was a simple conversation, but the other side was struggling with Communicating so I don't know, huh? I know what's going on. I keep contacting them but so reach other one but not your pro board and I don't know my seals huh? So but so the thing, you know, what you doing? Yeah, you know, what well now is why you just you just started another course to write to really help supplement the whole yeah. She do to supplement. I think she's as it as another group up, but it's definitely helping but in that same instance, you're also taking another level of that training. So maybe it will start what training you just started taking. I just finished the EMR or so just yeah entry-level paramedic and like very basic and yeah taking my my licensing on Wednesday so fingers crossed and then if I pass a licensee and I can work with PC ambulance, right? Yeah and then is well, I think we had because normally what we do in our Hall normally we train people up as to get into the standard of train the trainer, right? So I think that was on the cards to as a not. Yeah, I've done that don't go Oh you mean with her medical side were going to try to get her. Oh, yeah, we're looking into that because it we've been talking about potentially going first responder. So if we do that, it would be expensive to put everyone to the first responder level. It might be cheaper to to get myself or one of the other ear. Ours to take the course to train because it's definitely cheaper way cheaper. Yeah way cheaper and then you can just keep doing it whenever you get new people in. Yeah, and it could even be part of standard training. So it's not a tree. Yeah, I think so. I don't bother listening First Responders everybody that we're going to take the training of first responder, but we're still gonna probably stay as kind of what we do right now and we We'll get like paged out still kind of as we are which is not as a first responder like going to every medical call, but it will allow us to go to more like urgent Milk Balls Like cardiac and stuff like that. And we'd also know what to do if we're on seeing like that's like with the with like mbas. Yeah when we need when we need it. Yeah. I don't think anyone here wants to go. No. No, um, yeah because right now the kind of the tide has shifted towards for the Ambulance services. It appears that a lot of them are there. They're more told you as Todd as those before stay near the state of the ambulance wait for the firefighters to bring the patient to them. So we definitely need to get that next level and I think we have a fair number of people that are trained on it already on a higher level of first aid, but we'd like to have everybody at the same level or at least at a higher level than they are currently are nice to have everyone on the same page to like like look at it. Athene and be like hey, this is what we should be our biggest concern with this individual as we get them out of a vehicle or it's also good like because I have him our and it's good when I like when working with the paramedics I know what they need, and I know what you're looking for. Maybe I my skills are Rusty but I can see. Oh, I know okay me they need this piece of equipment now, they need this now that I know what they need when they ask me for something. I know what they were looking for. So yeah. Yeah. What is this? I think again when it comes back to that standardized training and getting everybody on the same page. It's just like a fire scene at that point in the Since of cave houses on fire, we all know the process and we all know that when we see cuz we're trained to know what the each of the roles are. We know when we see a hole that we know our position to be able to take that and make sure it's filled and complete that task and it's just another asset right we get onto medical calls. We have a set few people which if they are not there, unfortunately again volunteer whole maybe they're not showing up. Maybe they're working, right? We have to deal with the situation with the people that are on truck. So if more people are trained to that standard benefits everyone because now we're all thinking the same things like we would be if it was a fire makes mr. Percent. So Kerry also part of the in fact everyone rub your part of the training team, right? Yep. Yeah, everyone in here part for me is part of this part of the drain and T1. What in the department what role do you take because obviously yes, you are part of the training department, but there's there's other roles we tend to have individually as well. What do you do for us on him? So I'm intrigued SCBA. Yeah, so I just keep up with the annual maintenance and and buying of new start and fixing what I can fix and yeah, and yeah, this one's not going right what time? Insinuated a few things you should apologize on Thursday the when it comes to the SBA we just went through or I guess just over the past few years, right? We've changed into what packs we were running now. So we're running G ones with the MSA so their newest model. So yeah, I think the it's been transitioning and since I got here, I think they got their first their first set under because we do like to what we just upgrade to at a time right to pakse are no. Yeah. Well before we started yeah, we had full fire hot, but I thought we had firearms for a while. Even when you were SCBA. We weren't buying know ever since I've been here we've been by and you on so actually are like the SCBA guy before I don't know if you say Names, but I won't anyway, he he he bought the brought the first you on Zoom, huh? Yeah, and they're good. I like him. Yeah. I mean since you've been doing a CBA not since you've been on the department since I've been doing yeah. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we've only been getting to give us I don't like because we have two full trucks. Now I was going to say I guess that's they've been here for a while. We have eight packs. Time does fly. At to do it because other other Halls don't have that. They don't have the slightest thing that goes carries. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so other halls and I show them like though we don't have this. This is favorite that in my last apartment at some of them like when we do seminar which were going to talk about they don't when we have a shot. Yeah, we damn it. We demoed we like hey, this is a kind of unique to a few of these masks and they're like, this is weird. Like let me have em essays. They weren't Scott know there are elements. Well, sorry, not everybody has a Mercedes, but the people that had him Besides I said I've never seen that before. That's what this is. It's an addition they added that's interesting. Yeah, the one I love my last apartment had the yeah, I don't particularly like that thing cause I never use it because it's kind of Hanks funny in sideways. And yeah, so the new I like the G ones because yeah, it's almost it's more like yeah, it's got a bigger opening. Yeah. Yeah, could you want yeah great. We have the rechargeable batteries, which are fantastic. Yeah. I love them and then The connections just just not having to try and catch a thread as well. Like you have to do only for the quick and I can quickly be cooking. It is so much easier if you're in a night with a bottle change in few seconds, if you're if you're on the ball, whereas the other ones like you twist you twist right dirts got in there and you're trying to get the thread back to work. It's like man, this is not happening nightmare. Yeah, so you've been online for six years. I think so. Let's be coming up coming up to 6. Yeah Simon rob6 richer. Oh you join doughnut on the assembly floor. Yeah. Yeah speaking of seminar. We have our big seminar coming up good segue good segue dark hair. Thanks Burt seminar. We have talked about it multiple different times with just kind of alluded to different things. But today we're actually going to go into some solid detail on what we do where we hold. It how much it costs what you get and how many of you are going to book your tickets because we have an amazing amazing couple of days of fun. So I'm going to start with Scott on this one's got so you what do you want me to talk about everything? You said we show me to my seminar? All right. So every year sometimes held in DC. I mean, I'm sure the senator is hell. All over the world, but for the volunteer firefighter associate BC started BC volunteer firefighters Association. They have a seminar that they hold every year and for whatever reason for pretty much every since it started or for quite a long time. All right, we're always mid 90s mid-90s was when you started. Yeah. So for well over 30 years. I think we Our department has always taken the second year. So like it's with us one year, then it goes to other department. Then it comes back to us. And that's just the way it's always kind of mean. Why don't know why that is. I know we put on the best damn bar. Okay see the height - sweetheart. I think some of it is. Our town is very like open to it and they understood they get it. Literally, we keep me go to the rec center like a very nice bike ball diamonds and we go to the park in town take over there and we basically take over the park but we don't just know we don't it's not a seminar like classroom stuff. It's all pretty much Hands-On. I think every year for the last four seminars three or four Senators. It's always been Hands-On ways to have some classroom now, it's I'd say 95 98 percent of its Hands-On training so So with that Hands-On training obviously comes a lot of fire stuff. So yeah right in the little ball down and we'll have a burning car and we'll have a have a diesel pit burning over this ball diamond and then a life like we take our see cans we actually ship them down from our training ground because there's someone will well ship them down drop them right on them all diamond and get it burning. What's up. We usually use our damage deposit. Some years more than others. Yeah, it's quite a setup because because we do that like we could do it at the training ground we've talked before but it just it wouldn't be the same because they're training ground is you know, it's a training ground. It's if I'm sure everybody's turning around looks similar. There's going to be cars. It's going to be kind of it's always going to look kind of run down because you got your burning cars there and your auto accident and build its you can buildings everywhere. Not that these are the best. Environment to host like a kind of an event. So we've take this thing on the road the road. We take it down the road. We take it down to this community center and basically make it as big event as possible. Well, we've got a pretty good layout to because our community center is right besides ball fields where there's like five of them. Plus there's Tennis Courts Plus. There is the curling rink and the big parking lot. Everything is like right there. Yeah so we can do our banquet. Yeah. Are our vendors which is our like tradeshow thing we can do this the actual seminar itself. We have a river so we can do Swiftwater. We have a hill so we can do over embankment. Yes, pretty much. It's almost like the perfect training ground, but we only have it for the weekend. So it's quite the setup. Yeah, it's so we run it for a couple of days. You have two days. Really the Saturday is a big day the Sunday we run pretty much a half a day because a lot of people because people are traveling from all over BC. We have people coming from from the states now and even from Alberta they come in. So the Saturday is really the big day The Big Show day and then Sunday is more like there. I mean, we have two or three sessions in the morning, but by the Yugi The afternoon the last session in the afternoon is kind of like it's usually one or two people meeting / lot of time though. It's for mine at stay busy the entire time. I guess. I think I think it depends like obviously people are if departments are closer. They'll stay but the ones that have to travel 12 hours back to wherever they came from they leave for you really so yeah. Yeah, but Saturday is definitely I mean we joke now we call it the fire palooza because actually one of the nursing team members here once last seminar our I was talking to a woman and I was telling him that yeah, we got, you know, we do this and this and we live fire we had we're gonna have an exploded we have we have cars blown up at the beginning of the thing kind of as a welcome everyone. We have a live band playing and on the Saturday night. He's like, oh, it's like a regular fire palooza Mark. So let's let's talk a little bit about that. So let's talk about kind of at the schedule for the the Friday onwards. So as you want to talk a little about that. Yeah, so Friday night we Put up our Hall here with you registration party. If you will, we have a bit of a live band. Usually it's a bit of a local band. They don't come and play and we do like hot dogs hamburgers and a couple of chilled beverage has everybody can kind of mean what do you mean by that? Nice all the pots? Yeah. Yeah, maybe so we have that Friday night. He come in your register. We always give away some freebies like a t-shirt we've done mugs to what else will be giving away a little goodie bag. Yeah, you know, we have local coupons and stuff. But yeah, we usually when you're we have magnets for the cars support firefighter magnets the tooks were big one two weeks for those that are not k&r we need some being stocking caps, and he's me. Toboggan toboggan, it's a wolf hat that you were yeah keeps you Far East come on. What else about alien, Maryland the Brunswick? All right back Marshall this kangaroo pages. Right. We should we should give Budgy Smugglers Saturday quad. The new variant goes off the rails. Well, this is a good story though. The other guy was East India and a really nice guy, but he didn't know English very well and didn't or culture very well and we both started the same time and these streakers went by and he's like are they married? No. No, but they're naked that's why are they naked in ceremony? I think there's a bit of an opening ceremony on Saturday morning, and maybe we'll put up a couple photos of some of our previous with you started off Sunny like fire-related and then it just grew from there from what I understand and I don't know it was one year ago like flew in on a helicopter and it was Attached to a note like that one. There's there's that attached to her like like a long lead like a long line and he flew in and landed a chopped open a car. That was one year and then one year they had a helicopter fly in and try to put out a fire with the airplane came by it. No, no, no, no. No, we actually get a spectacle. Oh, okay. People are actually give us demonstrating their fire apparatus stuff, like one guy flew with the helicopter. I understand I wasn't here then and then they had like these things that shot like pressurised water out of the helicopter going to put the fire out. Wow, but the guy Guys are guys put so much fuel in the burning structure that this basically made it impossible to put out. No Arc. Yeah. Yeah. So then what happened was with the airplane do the fly by which that was like a shot up the car and exploded and then their helicopter came with a bucket water bucket, and he instead of putting the fire out. He did like a surround you don't even need to be able to look at all. Yeah, but I think the really the runway for your rejected up. I think that And that we really got going this was that trailer that we repainted as a meth lab every boot up and then we're gonna put out with the gunfight and that was that was wicked. We have that on that's on the UT. That's it. Yeah, we have a couple of one you to grab a couple of we got the side by side ones on YouTube. We are I think the I think the one in that first one we did was Todd and his shotgun with the glued the glue over the a friend of mine. He's on me. And they came the one year that they really becoming for about three or four step three times. Yeah, so when I guess he was a little guy from here, so he's my friend growing up. So I said hey you want to come to the seminar and he's like, yeah, we got training budget will come some of his partner. I remember they pull up and they pulled in the bin bomb squad car and they think it's going to be a because when we see seminar everyone's seminar great. It's gonna be exciting like cream serum or no watch Powerpoints and Do nothing so they pulled in and I'm like, oh, hey guys, how are you guys doing? Yeah, so we got forget our free breakfast over there in about half an hour. We're going to go blow up a bus and he's gonna be like, but like yeah, we're gonna blow up a bus. I'm like, there's a burning car over there. There's a lot of fire you're gonna be over there and they're like what the hell kind of seminar is this? I remember I was standing next day him and his partner when we now use I think it was a year. We may be dropped. The car through the drop the truck into the end of the bus and the blue bus out. What post that one for sure. That's a really awesome picture and they're just like what is this all about? So then they said well, can we blow something? Absolutely. You're the bomb squad. You can load ever you want so that afternoon they they are the only people qualified attorney that afternoon they actually they got their reward. Openly they did a demo where they they had real explosives not like Gasoline and stuff they had like they went out with C4 and they detonated a bomb like as though they would get rid of like it was a car bomb not a Car Bomb suitcase bomb so they went in and they drop some C4 and they made it, you know, they made everything safe and they blew it up. It was pretty awesome. So now every year they basically when they come they have they find something for lunch hour. So everyone gets your their lunchtime snack and they go out and watch something else below. So it is really a fire pillars after the other got it. Did we do we get away with a lot? We really do get away with a lot. Well, like I said and I started off by saying that it's we're unique in the town is very supportive. It sounds super supportive. Yeah, you know, they know what's for one weekend. Like there'll be a black cloud of fire over this is like burning fuel over the town because they understand why we need to do it. We're not just training ourselves were treating the entire the entire Province, but a lot of people come from around So the town's pretty forgiving Ministry of environment very forgiving but they actually put on a they put on a demo for they put they come now and they do a demo for us. They do a session on how to clean like spills and stuff. So there they understand I was well like, you know the train fire you have to make fire like to train it properly you have to make it so they get it. So yeah, it's counts pretty cool though because they actually like every year for Thing in like puts up a power pole in the field like they dig a giant hole and they dig up a day of a 4 inch gas line. Oh, yeah. Yeah and then we do that in the volleyball pit gasoline the volleyball pit looks like it's quite a thing. It's pretty so let's actually I mean, we've already touched a little bit on some of the stations but let's talk about some of the station's you run so care. What do you run last year laughter? Hmm. We're sorry you before I serve you. His writing skills not like you did. Yeah. Yeah. What was it was just that the basics was it going through like firefighter named packaging now, we did the whole packaging and took them out of like a mock window so different techniques of getting people out. So we just went through through that multiple-time some and just let people play around with different techniques to just to give them as many tools as we could for. Toolkit. Yeah, I think one thing we have to stress is not a there's no certificates given doing this because our sessions are fairly short. They're only like 45 minutes to an hour. We might tweak a little bit this year make a little bit longer because some of our people writing sessions are saying that I'd like to see it a little longer just so this kit they can teach a little bit more and get the skill development. But even an hour long, you're not going to get a certificate of this is all just skill development and its really good because I find other firefighters that are there they'll Gus like it's more about like getting together with other people and talking it's not a not necessarily about us saying this is how you do it. You better do it this way. You're not going to get a certificate at the end. It's like hey, this is how we do it and show it to them. How would you guys do it? And then they do it. Yeah. I find it really helpful too because you have all skill levels coming you have people who've been on for 30 years and some people are like brand-new and and some of the people who've been on for a while have a their wealth of information so they gave me tools for my toolkit to I got every time I've ever been in I always liked take time to hear from them and just use what they have to it's good. Hey, one of the big things here that I want to just maybe make very clear as most of these most of these like little seminar pieces that we've run most of the actual train in areas that we run solo run training sessions. Thank you are all run by our guys. It's all of us. It's our department for the majority of those things. We do have external sites are about half. Yeah. Well was it last year half and half Yeah, because we run about 24 different sessions around the fields, right and I'd say there's about 12 12 of them are external instructors. Any other 12 are our guys. Yeah. Yeah, so we have you said about 24 different sessions. Yeah, I was actually making the eyes look at the list today. And right now I have 24 on the list. Some of them are iffy some of them like ash we run it this year. Like some of them are there's a couple new ones that we haven't really secured yet. And if you you're not bringing in yeah, and then there's some that didn't quite work out last time. So we're gonna dump them and then somehow I just don't know until I have We're meeting with with Fortis who is are they basically are gas and electrical for the area for as well not all of these see there's still Pockets, but there is a very large company. Yeah, they're very major electric and gas company. So I have a meeting coming up two weeks from now with their like one of their heads from Vancouver and they're going to tell me what they can bring this year. So you like last time we it was actually pretty cool. We had them we always have electrical And that's actually a couple the local guys put in lines and they carry said they they literally bring in and actually I think it's two telephone poles they bring and then they strictly used to string a wire and then connect it somehow to another telephone pole. But that would they would they blow circuits and stuff. So they stop doing that but they always have them, you know, I said really cool demo. They have a car into a pole and show and they take Spray paint and spray paint the zones and then they actually bring out their little with a weiner cooker boards instead of being at the wiener and they cook it with electric electricity and it's for it's a pretty cool demo. It's not really Hands-On but it's it's every kind of shows a visual visual. Yeah. It's a visual thing and it's all like it's not like a model. Everything is like they're it's like this the telephone pole. It's real telephone pole. They show all that sort of stuff. So that's one thing that for his does and then they every year for as long as I've been around. They've like I said, they dug up they dig up like a 4 inch gas line. Yeah, and then Ash that she runs that you're not runs at you kind of run the firefighting set of videos. Yeah, so it's nice because they so they send a couple tax and then we have a couple of our guys there and we do a gas wall. So it's like if the service Coming to you residents catches on fire. They break down like how much pounds are just coming from the main coming through the regulator going to your house. And then so we like that up. We have a vehicle which would have drove over a gas line and then lit up underneath the vehicle. And then the last one is if there was a underground rupture which then caught on fire. And we always preach if you see it on fire. You can see where it is. You know, where it is. It's safe. If you put it out now, it's just going to have a sphere that's not really ideal, but it's not also not fun. So we try to get the guys and girls to put this fire out more times than not it ends up. They don't put it out and it's now real it behind them. So it's kind of like a mile per hour. Irwin yeah, so you're not really getting a skill set out of it. You're getting a you just it reminds you that you can never be too safe. This is something that can happen and now all of a sudden the fires back behind you and you're in a really bad spot. So they've got the tag fits right on the the valve. So the moment it jumps back behind them, they're shutting that off but it's great. You can watch guys they all push their way up. They'll get a couple teams going and make it halfway 3/4 of the way there. They're doing really good and then it pushes back behind them and its nipping him in the back. So kill it quick. But yeah, so they do the three up on the top and then the last couple years or last year. They brought one more demo. Yeah, so last year because the lmg let some liquefied natural gas is there is a big industry not so much down in our area but in the north and stuff and police so they actually brought it in big tanker truck of LNG and And they ran it like for this pit they have this over they call that thing of the vaults because little you know, they have this Vault and it's actually super cold and because the grass died but it wasn't from the heat. It was from the from the freezing temperature. Yeah, and then they'll if they let this flame on it and was about 340 feet in the air and the the way to put it out as he actually don't even with the hose you go in with a dry Kim. So it was cool because last year they actually did a special session just for our people so when we were done for the seminar for the day, they They got like 20 30 of us to come. We kind of shut down the seminar while I was already kind of shut down but rather than packing up right away. We went over and we all can I sit around in a bunch of us got to go with we that's where the special flows and we'll go out and play around this liquefied gas and they lit it up and we put it out and yeah, it's pretty cool. So I'm hoping they can do that again this year this year. We wanted to change where the Vault was because we didn't actually think about what are we had it and we were right under the flight path of evil of the local Airport. I think the other thing too is to mention about Fortis is they've actually sponsored right with us to the past. This will be the third year. Yeah, they've done they do a big they've done a couple big signs for us. And that welcome everybody on the last year. They did are they sponsor or two weeks or whatever you want to call him? So it's they're a very big Commander the help and they want everybody be safe because you know, a lot of stuff they they deal in is dangerous to us. We think last year they were really pushing training with fire departments or with First Responders about safety with natural gas with electricity. They had a big advertising push media blitz with ads on TV for like a year that was directed specifically at training with First Responders. So for us to get in on that one, we did was was pretty big. To yeah, yeah completely. So yeah, it's gorgeous. Well, then rub You've Got You Go Station to write one station. Do you know? Yeah because you do you do pretty much the same one every year. I do call the right thing firefighter challenge. Yeah skills, there were certain. Portions of it that didn't make sense to me and we took those out and added in other things the basically it's the carrying of a hose up a set of stairs. You're gonna drop the hose. You're gonna holla type donut roll up to a landing. You're going to go back down you're going to do there's various ones out there. There's the Kaiser. So that's the brand name the actual the actual sled that used to hit between your legs. Brad yeah, it's either Kaiser bun on your way down the stairs. But if you just woke up from us, we're lucky enough to have a barbecue. Like I can pull down guys. We were lucky enough to have one built something built for us last seminar, which we call Big Joe, which is basically a it's it's an elevated pipe that we He is heavy enough. It's whatever 400 come water fountains metal piping That's Heavy to hit. So you have to sludge that from both sides, you hit it with your strong side. And then you're off off-handed. I think the reason why I did it because it was definitely more of a simulation of striking a 40 degree rather than rather than hitting between your life because it's at about that level and some some guys we try to get them to go down on me and hit that. Yeah, and then we go to a hose coupling where we've got a forestry hose. We've got an inch and a half. And at two-and-a-half hose couplings that you have to put together from there you go to a hundred foot hose direct charge hose drag hit a Target, which I'm actually considering changing up and actually building a wall with a couple of different targets. So happy. Yeah, so you hit the target and maybe it'll swing Open Swing to another side. So maybe I'll maybe I'll colorism so I'll tell them blue. Yeah, and if the hill the blue targets and I'll swing to another side and it'll be a different color for the next person. And then you go to your dummy drag because one thing started I never really liked about the the hosting was like you dragging me and it's like it's really nice and this bullet on a tennis court basketball. That's a good roll away. So then I made that new Target. Yeah. Well, it's called the new Target of it like nine years ago because I hated watching guys chasing his basketball but I like Rob's idea better because it really like that like one shot. It was like one shot in the Target Falls over. It's not really a firefighter skill. It's like Sure, nozzle of cutting off with I like your idea where you can actually hit you get hit it'd be nice or even something that was a window a door frame and a window and you tell them window window door or something like that. Just just to get used to moving to after that. But from there you go to the dummy drag, which is a fire. Yeah cut the metal pieces of the like fireplace and I forgot what the person that pop up like a Damsel in Distress. I'm thinking is Dennis is going to be busy. Yes from there. And then you've got your dummy drag, which is I can't remember how heavy the dummy is that we get brought in. So there's we well we use is a use one from Todd's apartment. Oh just because there's a lot of dragging and if he's got they got the older riskier anyone's but 150 160. Yeah game over. Yeah, and so we do a hundred foot drag which used to be a straight drag. Which we change now, it's a 50-foot drag around a cone and back because resetting this takes a bit of work and it's hard to get enough manpower to do that because we've got all these other stations so as much as I can make this self resetting make sense makes it really easy on everybody. So yeah absolutely plans all time and it's all times. We see some awards. This is the one that we actually have Awards and giveaways. It's for for a top. So what how are they what we've got like age group, you know, 19 plus 19 to it like 25 26 to 30. We break it down to that. We've got like 50 plus we do an award for top time with an officer and with the ladies as well we do which I need to revisit and break it down to age group for the ladies as well because we didn't do that. More so I got in so much trouble last seminar for not getting that. So this we're going to break it down. Even further. We're going to have the man we're going to have the lead we need the officers because it really there either men or women or right? Well, it's something to look at but say but yeah and we doing a word we did last year. We did a challenge coins. I think I'm gonna go back to the tee shirts. I think people like to get the T-shirt as well. But so yeah, that's our firefighter challenge. It sounds good. - maybe we can Urban teacher we can throw one of our challenge coins. That's right. You guys my chief Miller? I don't like I know it was there like actually enough women to actually like break it down. Like how many I don't think we have that much. I'd have to look back at my time. I didn't get that many through mine. No, well, then fall that not I saw a lot of women's and This was no getting played. We ran a lot of women through the course Pika and my I don't care how fast you do it. As long as you complete it, yeah care who you are. Yeah, how old you are how young you are how fast you are complete the course whether you take five minutes to do it and we get we get departments Dad don't know these people and they're right up beside them cheering them on as much encouragement as we can to get them across the line. Yeah, and I think I had one lady come it was kind of funny one lady came up to me last seven or and said you by chance do military. I'm like no. She's like because You're always yelling and encouraging and and I'm like, nope. Nope. Nope, just like like to see everybody finish. So that's here's a fun station though. I guess it's always like fun over there. Yeah, there's a lot going on. There's a lot of people there. They're cheering. They're chanting and everyone everyone around that station can't help but get a little bit pulled over to that and to help cheer. Everybody was right in the middle, you know where we doing most of the stuff? So that's kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good it's a really good station really empowered station. And then of course there's Awards and stuff at the end and everyone, you know with everyone being the kind of person on each side as we are. We like to beat where else we can at things. So what's interesting is making these changes from year to year. There are specific departments. Yeah. There's that remember they take pictures video. They remember what the course layout is and they trained specifically for that coming up the seminar I want to win because they want to get top top. Mark's smart and we make these little changes and they're like our guys made that change and out screwed me all up. We even like our because another recession we do is a rich challenge. So that's kind of like have fun. Yes. That's kind of work. It's kind of like what Rob's talking about but now we made it into a writ thing. So it's basically we have a bunch and we've made it head-to-head for the list, especially I kind of we saw other people some other people do it once in a seminar so specifier like we can make that harder. So we basically made it a head-to-head race. Race and we kind of have these little rip Optical setup. So the doorway that we have to go through and but we have it head-to-head so then they race and yeah, it's it's definitely tough. But it's yeah like you're saying some of the Department's they've taken pictures they take measurements and every year were just like, oh, what do we have this year? We're doing changes here. So yeah some years we have the dummies actually tied. He's actually wired in he's falling through the floor, but now he's his legs were tied in so before they go out on their course we had My pair of wire cutters. What's this for? You'll see so or you know, they have to bring in the Hologram or an ax and if they leave behind that's Point deduction. And yeah, so it's basically the team event version but it's I think it's a Lardo I should say it's harder. It's different skill sets different skill. We blindfold some of them sometimes actually all the time. I think at least one or two of them were blindfolded. Yeah. We do a little tweaks every year make it harder - I like tortured. Chamber that whole place. I wish I could make mine head to head but you need more manpower if there's more structures there's so it just doesn't work out but I think I think fighting against yourself on yours as well as is a really good thing to have right? It's a personal challenge as opposed to a Team Challenge off against somebody else you're fighting yourself and put in your thing and you're pushing your own endurance, which is cool. We should have a departmental challenge. So whichever department has the best overall score chili. I said when something on Saturday night, that would be a good one your average of other times. Yeah, Joey lots of things. We talk three gems like some departments. Yeah, Sophie. Yeah, we should totally do that. And then so we also have we have things from actually harsh but you have a conversation with some people recently about breaking some doors and things. Oh, I don't know. No, yes. I had have had a conversation the past with prepare for their. Vancouver Island maybe remind there Down Coastal, but we have other guys coming. They've supported us for many years. Now the West Kelowna boys they come down and do a forcible entry. So this year I was actually just talking to Tim so this year so the force will injuries. That's our bread and butter thing and then every year they do one other thing for us well for the last few years, so this year I've actually suggested to maybe we'll do one of those Like a parking lot whose movement kind of maze so we're all set up some the pallets and barrels and it'll won't get people to move through. I was actually thinking maybe inside the maze will have targets like Robert stalker mode like pop up targets. Yeah, and then guys you guys are moving through that. They hit it with the hose and keep moving. Yeah, so I'm wrapping my head around that right now because there's a few on the internet and various places. There's a few kind of like kill has kind of an idea. Yeah. It's going to kill us. We do inside of Arbor nothing but now Out in the open so you know the pallets I idle take a look exactly we do it but it's actually a fairly easy thing. A lot of departments do with that don't have buildings like we do and such a good skill though. Because like I finally hose movement is one of the hardest things coordinate like yeah, especially when you're you know, you're trying to get your partner to bump up and all that stuff. Yeah. It's a hard thing to learn to do. That. Sounds like they're in for that this year. Like every year for the last few years, we've had the burned buildings. So again this year we're going to have I think we have two were Milling sister. Yeah that fire Dynamics kind of thing. Yeah. So one being the last year we did the ventilation. So we push in we actually get it because a lot of these people are like Kerry said there we have a varied skill set range, but a lot of the small departments they don't have they don't see life are very much. So we this is their opportunity we take them in and you know, if they're not comfortable with doing actual like hos working here, we'll just take them into hey, Want to see my fire? Yeah, so bring them just for that. So 10 out of that this year. We are going to have a fire Dynamics one again. Last year, we try to get the Backdraft going. Yeah, it wasn't working out of the way we wanted to do but it was still a cool thing because Grant one of our officers he was on here. Once he was talking about he he could talk through how the fires progressing and a thermal layer is all that sort of stuff and what should smoke weed and smooth everything smoke. So this we're going to change a little bit we're gonna actually take that same see can because it's only a 20-footer but we're going to the back the plan is to put on a steel shelf in the back. The pallets up there. So basically make a mini version of the Rover room that we actually sit firefighters in there and they can watch the fuck the fire build and and just see how the Dynamics of the fire grow and feel the heat differences and stuff because there is that skill are there is that varying degree of skill level some people haven't seen like fire. Well, I know one of our very first things that we've discussed it before is that cold start right going in showing your keys and we are very lucky, right? Yeah, and it's again we're talking about That they're coming to this thing. Some of them have never seen it some of them. This is their first opportunity, right? This is their first training session for that kind of stuff. So getting used to their gear and things in that cold start environment and watching it start to build the heat changes and then the start that but that thermal layer. Yeah. Yeah great great introduction to that kind of stuff and what's nice about when people come from small departments and they see what we're doing with the 20 foot so you can like it's not about your mind out. And what you can accomplish with a fairly small or just small budget even if all you're doing is just that cold start watching how the fire builds a little bit of nozzle technique. Once you're in there people are coming in. They're learning things that they can take back to their department whether it be a skill set or whether it be something for training. So I like that it's very multi-layered on what you can take away. It does not one of our container companies come to as a vendor or do they just put they put up the containers and assign well funny thing is we have a new members as well as the gator coming. So this year I'm hoping I've kind of alluded to them then that he can bring some of these containers down and and stack them because most those containers that we have down. There are his that we bought off. Yeah. So yeah and this year we're going to have Make a round six or seven seconds on me because not only do we do live fire and two of them or three of them is of the burned buildings. And then we have we make we make a v is room that's a sea-can and that house of horrors that Andrew built the cassette search building that basically we can go around forever and it's a 26 you can is a bunch of options. Yeah. Plus we got car fires. Yeah, so we do in years past Oh Thomas Todd's ran the car fire for us. Maybe you might be out this year. Yeah. We'll see it's always been a chore for them, you know pallets and all that stuff. All right. It's a big pain in the ass. But um, so this year I'm hoping to get the Fords gasps guys tied and maybe we'll be able to do some like natural gas inside there so they don't have to keep reloading the stack of pallets. Yeah, one of my favorites to watch and in fact, one of the most kind of impressive views is always the diesel pan right with the foam application. Yeah and watching that one and as it slowly kind of just builds a layer and the smoke that we got. I mean that's the thing you can see from like miles around that's when you're teaching some other session and then that they like that thing up and suddenly you lose all the students in this. Yeah somewhere the change that around slightly this year because we had a little bit of spillover last year. So this year going to have we've been referring are some methods of making it more environmentally safe like us because we did have some spillover and to do some cleanup. So there's always that like how far do we push training and still make it safe and environmentally safer. So there's always that and then also we go we go then obviously we've got these twenty twenty four is twenty five sessions all On with again different companies that are coming in plus our guys teaching these things and then we've also got a whole bunch of vendors and these vendors are from all different types of businesses and places from cancer societies all the way through to tools and equipment. I was looking to get fire trucks. So we get our guys in that we end up buying our trucks from yeah. There's there's all sorts of vendors there that you can go and View and buy stuff from in fact, we may even have some of our stuff there this year maybe yeah, absolutely. But yeah, that's another good good large part as well it with that whole section to now I think we're going to be doing the the a little bit different just it we host that portion in the arena. So where are we are we get really nice temperatures that time of year normally generally and I think last year was around 25 26 Because I was in I was in the arena and I kept having people coming in actually from Spencer's. Yeah, and they were like dying. Yeah, like I'm supposed to be somewhere else but I need water and shade. Yeah, it was super hot laughter. Yeah, why do I had to because I had worn and Kevin your brother in in the burned building with me and we were like usually it's like one Tech goes in but now is like there was all three of us are trying to work in there because it was so hot and we one of us would go in there for two minutes we come on back out because it was so like we'd be sweatin. Then came back out smoking. Oh, yeah, come on goats with our helmets are off gallivanting smoking when we come back out as like, yeah. It's a little warm in there and then it's not what it's not cool out here. So it's yeah pretty much but then that's what we've got that Arena Force. So this year we'll be setting up where when we have our lunches and stuff that were set up. You can come you can eat your lunches there in the cool environment because this is a this is like a hockey arena right? It's nice and cold inside get you out of that heat. You can wander around by things from vendors take Look at some new equipment tools, whether you're in or extrication, whether you're in know whatever we've got something for everybody in there. And so you'll be able to pick up some cool merchandise and here and some good information to and then we're gonna go see the other big banquet. So it really is a full that sorry. Yeah Rose Doug was just literally gonna roll over to the bank right side. So if you want it a banquet, yeah, so we have, you know yet fed in the morning. It's just talk about meals now in the morning. It's basically breakfast by donation on Saturday lunchtime lunch is provided as part of your ticket cost to come in with all your other sessions. And then also the that night and Saturday night is a banquet where everybody gets together couple will be what kind of beverages you say Shuffle of chilled chilled leverages all yellow Falcon. So yeah, so some some some beverages nice catered meal really kind of hangs out and then we have the awards for fastest tongue. Different challenges in these other presentation there's some position we try to limit the speeches to a minimum because no one's there to really hear species. There's also a drill right because every one of the vendors that comes brings a portion of every gift of some sort from whatever it is and it could be a driver's door prizes, right? It could be by the club has it could be coffee mugs. There were so many different things like a light jacket from Hub. Yeah the program. Yeah, that's kind of the big cooler. Or something like that. Yeah. So after the banquet what we've done now in the last few seminars, we now go outside to the what we call the after party and we have a lot of bands. We have a big stage full stage Arena Stage with a caged off area. That's a banjo such an arena like a selling Iron Man. This is stage at speakers and it's gonna slide in this awesome. Did did you confirm? Yeah, actually let's talk to so we try to get we hit the local people with the there's a fellow that I know Tanner Olson is Harrelson band. He's an up-and-coming country guys. So he said I've been coover. So he's I just talked to him today. So yeah for sure. I got him pencil in so they're going to come and play a live show. It's country ask he knows. I'm not a big fan of the country. So he's I think they're gonna throw a little bit of rock. Yeah, but it's live sand. We invite the townspeople super people. All these firefighter dudes are not going to want to like hang on dance together. So let's open it up for for any locals. So we do the small cover charge just to keep the weirdos away and sometimes it doesn't work. But you know, we get you know, full security all that kind of stuff. It is an actual like we're running an event. It's yeah, it's yeah, it's a common basically concert. We're running people come again more more cold beverages out there. Yeah, it's always a good time. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big one. And then again we roll that into Sunday for those that aren't too filled with alcopops from the night before we put on a free breakfast we put on the free breakfast the next day to make sure that we can kind of reduce and regenerate whoever whoever does shot and then we roll into Day 2 and day 2 again as a lot like day one. We have those stations still set up and you can go and head to whichever ones that you're scheduled for 4:00 that day we have so much going on there is It we've had a lot of feedback from a lot of people that have come and everyone knows and everyone early say tell us I don't know. They're just trying to blow the trumpet or what but they do tell us that we run the best seminar in BC when it comes to this stuff. So if you're interested it is when Scott, it's May 1st 2nd 3rd. Now the first is a like acid its that's the Friday meet and greet kind of Registration registration Night Live band like the local live band some pops and some stuff like that and go get your hotel room, but book hotel early because you're our town. We only have a couple of motels hotels and then we're Todd's from there's a bunch down there because it's more of a there times where we touristy Town. Yeah, and then Saturday the second is a big the big day and then the third is more the same and the Back in and clean up for us which is a whole other. Yeah. Yeah. I'm weekend what and actually doing better. Now that first of all we have these pecans weekend's move to Atlanta to like build this stuff anymore. It's green buildings had to seek an the mobile walls and there's yeah. Yeah, but ever since so so what happens is like IG station myself at the training ground and then I usually get Andrew on the other guys because he's very like Construction he's structurally like yeah, so him and I are on radio. Okay. Send me this next send me this now so then it's very organized. We try to like put that record button that we put there. Yeah, because we basically deconstructor for any person Lego. Yeah. It's like a giant Lego so we deconstructor training ground and then move it. So imagine if you have your train ground if you have a training ground and you take it all away put it somewhere else for the for the weekend and take it back. It is quite a task. It's good. It's a really really great way to learn a whole bunch of skills. We have Mentioned obviously, you don't get a certificate but as we've always talked about certificates don't always mean what you know, they're not even know what worth the paper they're written on in some instances. It's just the hard work that you put in. Well, I'm part of it too. Like I get a lot of Chiefs and stuff messaging me throughout the year because I made you the one that's I'm kind of like the leading us on this they send emails and they said well what certificates do I get to see what you don't give certificate but what you do get is because I said, there's twelve other like so we teach basically half the other half get taught by outside vendors you get to maybe see these people teach your guys and a short class is basically it's not I mean, you know for a minimum price and maybe you're like a the I like the way these guys teach I will not hire this company now to come teach a full weekend. So it's like a quick burst of stuff. So maybe they can or maybe you know, they go to they go to carries and they learn more about written and I know I think I think this right thing we should Higher higher the training company to come in so they actually serves another training company because they kind of get the idea of what it is because all these things are daunting you see him on paper earlier or we can teach this are we gonna learn this. So yeah, it's a really good opportunity for new firefighers old firefighters anybody to get involved learn some new skills. And yeah walk away with some better knowledge every time we do it it always works out. Well and this year we got again big things planned, especially For opening ceremonies and yeah, it's gonna be a blast also last time around we did this we did a trailer which we will be putting up pulling a trailer like a movie theater and moving trailer which we will put up there with the one from last time. We'll put the last Oh, I thought you had already done it and like you go. No, we've been done. I don't know if we're doing this one yet. We're still in talks as to whether or not we can make it work. If we can't find the budget I'm gonna pay for it is not the problem. It's getting there photographer the camera guy my guy and editing guy who's almost like you guys should be pretty good at it by now. Let's turn videos that were frightened. I can't do you like no way like I owed you did such a good job, but we'll post that up so you can take a look at that as well. But yeah, we we would love any of you to come. Yeah, please do if you're thinking about it rub your some pots. Get finished with you. If you have if you'd like to come it is going to be my first second third and it is going to be an all over BC and there is a price tag of I think it's 200 right now and it gives you your three meals your two lunches Saturday Sunday lunch your banquet access to all of all the sessions of course and In the after party, so oh, yeah. Sorry. I know of course our t-shirts. So everybody gets a shirt which is pretty coveted some years. We got some pretty interesting ones. Like I think Ash is wearing one right now the shut up and train that was so every year. We try to come up with a model model for the seminar. So that year was shut up in training that was grants. It's a good one innovate adapt overcome. The last year's I think this one might just be stand by to get some this year might be we're just talking about Bellezza your fire blizzard. Somebody get some. Well. No, I mean the name and then yeah buddy get some data model. I was gonna say talking about having townspeople allowing us to come in and do all this. We actually get some that come regularly with their photography gear and take some excellent pictures of all the action to know and yeah, they put out. Some great photos, what's kind of funny? Because the one year we realize that we were laying the we were laying the sessions out. I think Andrew and I'm sitting there going if there's it because it's a walking path around community centers from like if we laid the sessions out and we like it's almost like they're walking around to people that come for a walk. They can watch take a walk by because you know, we don't fence it off to anybody but never a in common what again? Well, you can't stand in the line of fire, but he come pretty near stuff and it was Irv in the observable things and they can walk along the - it's almost like a little Mall of firefighting. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have the do you have the full list of of sessions? Yeah, I don't because it's I don't enjoy the full list until April okay change beginning there was something that we can post just to show the kind of things because I know we didn't mention obviously we didn't mention any of the like the car stuff that we normally do as well as a few like Givens we're going to be we're going to do the live fire and like the positive positive pressure attack probably or some sort of ventillation live-fire. We're definitely do the fire Dynamic the you know, the cold start there will be RIT whether to be the rich challenge with skills something V is a very talk to Jason he's going to do that one search building of some sort of happy to I think they're going to be like the crazy search building where we get kind of Trapped and self turn around and like self-education and then there's gonna be like an organized search sort of thing. But there's some like up in the air still like working on getting dr. Nick to come in teach at triaging possibly with like that's active shooter kind of situation. That is Worth the $200 on its own. Yeah, just with him and his passion for me. Yeah, I guess yeah, he's okay you thought Nelson so we was talking to him and I showed him pictures of the explosions and stuff. So I'm hoping to get him. So that's why that one's I'm saying her up in the air. Like I'm not sure but you're some data they're definitely happening. Yeah, we little have over 20 for sure definitely going to be a good time or it's always fun always. So tiring but sometimes yeah, it's a lot of work on our side. But man when you when you see the things that we can do in a weekend with with just you know that we do it with our art department and then we do it with again the fire family and even some older members that don't necessarily come to anything more, you know, like four other cools, but coming from other stuff in the local ties apartment comes up. Department just from a North are coming this time. They're probably at each that I talk to them. So yeah, I talked to a couple guys they know from their there. They're planning on teaching them. Hey my actually car far this year if Todd's not able to but um, and then yeah, there's three departments come to help us because it was obviously we need more engines because we have to also protect our town. So we have some of their engines and lots of Serbia. Yeah. I think Kerry goes out to like what ten different departments are gonna see these know what attend but I go around the Fairmount, yeah, so it takes like a lot of a lot of Fire Halls to make it happen around here so local because usually by in booked three months Kari starts asking me how many or maybe sooner you would ask me how many Seb and we need so I started making the numbers and some are you know, are they working? I see because some of the things we do were just they guys have to have scbas on with their mouths on but they don't have to be there like the rich challenge but some of them obviously like live-fire we need actually certified as CPAs to go away. So steel 2,200. Yeah, if you're unlucky enough to get nobody your own that you're running on ashes for that one, right? It's normally your operation. I know we're trying to go we're trying to get away from yeah, but yeah, but we didn't have too many last year on the big ones. No, it was not but even last year I'd say I was or you before like 50/50. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, so May 1st 2nd 3rd all over BC 200 bucks for your ticket. Three days or at least two days of full fire but three days of partying fun. And if you're a fireman like this is the place to be for those three days. You will not find anything the beets this for what we do we do an amazing amazing event. And yeah, come see for yourself step by get some. Yeah, obviously not, you know not to mention we have a lot of people that they'll drive up. As like a couple like they are bringing. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, you're right. We're we're kind of dead in the center of the Okanagan Valley which is wine cup almonds. So as you the firefighter might be out fighting fire your spouse can whine to her or craft Distillery tour we got A lot of craft distillers beer Beach Lear at Luke's and such as you'll maybe see Spas restaurants are video clips. There's actually Sometimes some of the firefighters jump on the Wine Tours. There's one. Yeah, there's a couple of Chief said there's one chief he comes every time he just gets on the bus. He drops his guys off. Yeah, I'll be back. Yeah, okay just gonna take that stand by to get some but yeah, like you said - it's a if you are looking at coming and you just want to make it a trip you want to come see the Okanagan can bring your wife and you know, what? You're more husband her husband. Yeah. Yeah, bring your partner bring a spice bring them over you want. It's good fun. I'll come along this week. A kids are the kids - we don't have a Kids Zone. But yeah, but yeah, there's lots to do for for people that are coming with you. So, yep. So if you are coming again, May 1st 2nd 3rd 4th album about the fourth. Wow. Yeah, we're doing one more day and I met first make it worth her knobby with you for a second third and 200 bucks. Get you those those three days of awesome fun fire training. So come join us Oliver BC. There is a hotel. There's not many book early. If you are going to do it book early if you are gonna do it because they will not last long. In fact, I might even talk to him and see if we can get a discount price for five hours for that weekend bother you very good. He's got a sorted out Wicked so we can order sir. So if you cool, and you say that you are coming. For the seminar then say you're a firefighter coming for the seminar you will get a discount fantastic. And I think also we did last year. We did something with the taxis locally as well where we gave Rachel did we not give people around look. I know we have a show for sure. So it's not a big thing. The nearest town other than ours is 20 minutes away. So it's not. Yeah. She probably got a shuttle from Murphy's do yeah. Yeah. Well this year I don't look at heart. The local bars are definitely gonna get hit. I'm sure way more than they did last time because now we've got more places for people to actually stay stay here. Yeah right in time. It's the first time it's pretty packed there. It was it was so it was the the firewall that's why it helps with your I mean helps the town. That's what I'm like see ya. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Come see us man. We got lots to teach you got lots of fun to have and yeah, maybe you can buy one of our t-shirts. We do have a nice couple of books. Yeah, I got one son. He's off the spigot. Well sooner we don't you start selling them. I don't know if you know we referred to the buying I'm telling Carrie if we were because the shirts taking so long and I was we were comparing the shirt purchasing to the pig roast that we had. Is it time for the pig is final? Anymore for anymore. When are we gonna do announcement soon as I can long after some I am I missing get a butt full of solid content. Well, I know solid so solid - Carl. Are we done as always Chief Miller check them out. Facebook has become a gram. I don't think she'd Miller's coming you might ask. I'm gonna invite you should yeah, so check them out Facebook Instagram and Twitter actually Oliver for palooza 2020, right? You heard it here first the overnight maybe last I will mention his his Instagram crashed again for like a second time. So his main one is Chief underscore Miller one like the numerical one. So check them out there. He's also Chief Miller media. Uh Chief Miller ambassadors. Yeah, he's everywhere. She shares a lot of content. 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Yeah, unboxing the reboiler. There's a mask inside. Yeah, we've using them for I don't know like months and then good. Yeah, lots of different options lots of different methods to use and they do have lots of different options to they have, you know, three different styles for three or four different like yeah form designs. Yeah, and then multiple like you can get pretty cool actual designs if you want to look like a shark or we just had a basic black neoprene and ones you could have got sharks. Oh and you know the black ones. Yeah made this decision We Carry On I would think if you're wearing the mask and then you're like doing medical: yeah. I'm to get 30% off. You will just now put DTF. So that's our actual code. They gave us now. So yeah, they're shutting off 30% office. Yeah, a lot of presents. It is three of them three actually, it's great that there's that much carry over to Bar Bar boys Brotherhood Academy real podcast. The oh we should have queued there right next time sir, right? Yeah. We got us the full song. But yeah, I'm being in diapers. That's right. Yeah, so I made the joke once here, I'm wondering are they are they going to start sick calm because it seems funny man. It was it was we got Dave had to cut it down because there's added. Host now, so that's why yeah, so is Nick and Pull and that was the originals? Yeah now, it's Nick Nick of the known each other since we were in diapers. That's why they got the same heartbeat. Yeah volunteer fire crackers. That was fucking 4:30. Yeah, he's super catchy. York Maine look York State Bar's it's not like dynamically Peppermint Patties York Peppermint Pattie. Yeah. Hold your pictures your the original like where they like is that where the the original ship climate? I don't know nothing about how people got here makeup history. Yeah, it's where the sun is first loaded. He also talked about firefighters to bring this back around China and Chad. Yeah, great group group of guys. They are kind of like the East Coast American version of us. We love them. They love us and we give each other a shit back and forth every week. So yeah check those boys out. My boys are boys fighting for a Dying Breed brother Academy radio. I'll play the song after. So happy with your comb, but Brody writer Fighters stop the bleed. Yes, stop it. Just stop. No, it's not tonight. We filmed two to my videos right make it applications. So self-application return ticket and application on a patient or femoral artery. Yeah, as we're gonna go it's free for free training all over North America. Let's go wait, please stop talking. It was just telling me I wasn't Stop stop it. Yeah, really control dot-org. We're gonna go and free training. You can become if you're if you're trained in like carry, for instance, if you're higher level of Medical Training actually become an instructor in it and they encouraged to go out to the world because I think last thing I saw on your website because they've just redone their website. They've trained a million people like throw a instructor because when I teach when I teach a course, I have to go online and I say, Why don't have to but I do I say we're doing these courses put them all down and I put down many people have came and all that stuff and that all gets put into their stats. So, yes, they trained over a million people in the last few years. How many of each right now? Probably sit down over a hundred? Yeah. I heard him something. Yeah. It's pretty impressive very small period. Yeah and your tan are doing a few more coming up. I know it's Kevin mentioned that you was bringing out to the ski hills and stuff. Like this is stuff that we you know thinking I started that Looks like where else can we apply this where all these people Parts Association for hikers? Yeah, it's crazy funny because it seems like we're the tip of the spear right now as I was talking to somebody else and the government because they're like, oh we haven't heard of this before. I'm like, yeah. It's kind of like hidden big people are starting here where it is starting to become a thing, but it's still like kind of a new thing which is going to weird new thing up here. But definitely we're pushing a lot. So yeah, so yeah. Let me have that school second alarm dot-org second alarm its East Coast. Matt is a calls to try and get more firefighters in your firewalls. We obviously all understand and can appreciate the fact that try to find people to become firefighters. These days can be challenging for some departments in certain areas, especially when it comes to the volunteer so many things Matt's calls is a specific one that Jose and it it tries to Showcase and really really show what we do the fun behind it the skills that you don't necessarily need when you first walked through the door the stuff that you can learn the life experiences. You can gain from it the Brotherhood and Sisterhood that you do find in it as well. There's a lot of bonuses obviously that we all understand and know because we're still here so it's a really important cause if you do have a minute please go Go and check out the website second alarm dot-org and show him some support and some love. Anymore for anymore. But what about us? Well, that's what it says right there. Just a recap we are. Yeah, I guess all about us tonight. So you got shirts we do. Okay, we have sure this don't have a way to selling T-shirts. We also I spent contact her directly if you want a shirt. That's the worst idea. It will see any way. We do have the the YouTube page now has all of the content up that we Done so far apart from the three beers this evening, but everything else all of our video content is up there. So like share follow subscribe all the other fun stuff. We need to get to a certain point before we can start advertising through there. So we need like a thousand followers plus 4000 hours of watch time. So by the time we're 50, we might get there. So if you do get a chance, but yeah, so obviously we're on the Facebook and Instagram. That's all of Ashes fun stuff for the Instagram follow him there actually dropping the ball on the Instagram. So we'll put that back up. We're gonna write write that ship right that ship. Yeah. I think it's probably been like three weeks. Yeah. Is really bad. I apologize to well I should get on them. And then yeah with the Facebook and stuff obviously join the Fire family like subscribe do all the fun stuff and yeah, you can be the latest to kind of keep an eye on all the fun things that we do. We post other things with news and stuff anything that really kind of we read and we like the sound of WE Post. We don't just post them post and post front post garbage that we don't actually read and pay attention to but everyone. No, we WE Post what we believe and we posted things that we like to read stuff. So if it's interesting great, give us a like give us a follow and yeah, obviously just the final touch on that Oliver spring seminar 2020 $200 May 1st 2nd and 3rd for the Friday Saturday Sunday parties buyer cutting things open running around like a lunatic with Rob. Maybe throwing things out the window and carry you never know. Yeah, come join us. Meet us have some fun. And yeah. Anymore for anymore. We good. Happy birthday Marines. Happy birthday Marines and henna Gracie. Is it headed to Philly go re coming on yet. So you need him later like friends talk to him - thanks guys, Rob. Good night. Stay safe, Scott. Oh, that's his line. Can I stay safe? Sunday Carrie, I don't have a line Nick. Yeah. Goodbye. Everyone lady tff. Oh, he does. Say yeah every occasion. Did I?
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