The Critiques

This has been a long wait for this day to come. I could not wait to talk about the issues out on the car accident that Friday night so many weeks ago.’

I had the home inspection and pest inspection scheduled for today. The home inspection guy did not show up. Finally after twenty minutes past the time he was supposed to be there I called him. He said that Pam, my realtor, cancelled him. I was upset about that, then I asked if he could still do it. He said he would come up.

I was only able to be around for part of the home inspection because I had to leave just before six to get to the critiques. In one night a few weeks ago we had a car accident and a structure fire. Rescue played a pretty big role in both. We were on scene with the first arriving engine. We got the dwelling lay and the fire knocked down before the others arrived.

Later at the car accident we were the ones who started extrication. I was upset over the choice of tool on rescue. We had switched to the new rescue and no matter how much I argued to keep the old tools on the new rescue people kept saying there wasn’t room. That we only had room for the combitool. I got caught on the scene of a car accident with better tools miles away in the city. I did what I could with the tools in hand, but I was unable to make the quick cuts that I would have liked to make. As a result of something happening to the Engine that had the tools on it, they were recently put on rescue and replaced the combitool. I was told this will be permanent.

I think the main critique that was made of me is that I should have take a role of a group leader and directed the extrication instead of doing it myself. They said as a crew leader I need to start to take up leadership positions.