Hey, I'm a newbie, but planning to move to the Dr very soon, any retired Canadian F.F. down there or American F.F. I 'd like to here from you.
Hi Capt. Sparky,captsparky said:Hey, I'm a newbie, but planning to move to the Dr very soon, any retired Canadian F.F. down there or American F.F. I 'd like to here from you.
For the most part in the DR it's like me stepping into a time warp and remembering what I used to sell 20 years ago (although the Dalmatian would be the same -LOL). Many of the resorts fight fires by design, not with equipment. They design their higher risk buildings (like restaurants) to be in separate buildings so that if they catch fire it will not spread to another building. Once it burns down they simply re-build. In the past five or so years I know of at least four resort restaurant buildings which have followed exactly this design plan.carina said:Gregg, this is interesting.
What are the goods/bads etc with the Dominican fire equipment?
Do you know anything about the training the firefighters get here?
I mean not only in terms of fighting a fire, but resque etc etc etc
I Puerto Plata they do have a dalmatian!
FireGuy said:Hi Capt. Sparky,
I'm a fire equipment supplier from the Maritimers and my business partner is a retired career and then volunteer firefighter.
Which Dept. did you retire from?
Have you visited any fire halls in the DR yet to see the equipment that the DR bomberos use?
You ain't seen nothing yet!
Gregg
Anna Coniglio said:
Living in Dartmouth, NS - even if my heart is elsewhere.captsparky said:Hi Gregg,
Small town in the interior of B.C. called Nelson, I've been to the DR. a couple of times and the apparatus is older than I am. Where are you living? We are thinking Samana.
CaptSparky
An "old firefighter" from the Atlantic coast would have known better. Maybe 6 years experience in suburbia qualifies as a "teenage firefighter".LynnCox said:I remember the Capt. telling me that I needed to leave the house when Hurricane Georges was coming, you see we have 650' of ocean front property. I told him no I was staying, and I did and got some amazing video of the ocean coming up onto the house. Guess that's the "old firefighter" in me, the adrenalin and excitement always is there.
Lynn
HOWMAR said:An "old firefighter" from the Atlantic coast would have known better. Maybe 6 years experience in suburbia qualifies as a "teenage firefighter".
Only made the comment as you were so proud that you didn't follow the advice of the "old captain", in spite of never experiencing a hurricane. What you did was a very typical reaction for a civilian, as demonstrated by those of New Orleans who waited for the water to enter the house bedore they decided to evacuate. I'm glad you did make it out OK, and nobody had to risk their life to rescue you.LynnCox said:Well you see I do have common sense too HOWMAR that I was taught in my training as well...when it DID become dangerous and water was coming at us from 3 sides, I did instruct all people that had stayed at the house that we had to leave immediately. There were 4 of us there, my sister and our 2 security guards. Thank god we were all safe and nothing happened. We had a lot of damage...but that's not what this topic is about.
I had excellent training and gained LOTS of experience in my "short 6.5 years", if I was still in the states, I'd still be doing it. Gee that would give me 14 years, am I still a teenager? LOL...just jokin. I truly respect the job and the people that work in the field and hope that someday when I move back (probably this summer) maybe I can re-train and start again.
Lynn