Slow Day

The fire department was a slow day over all. There was a lot of down time during the day. We did one training exercise where we were in a dark room wearing our turnouts with SCBA mask. The SCBAs were taken apart and then the straps were tightened and tied together. We had to figure out how to get them apart and then put them together properly in the darkness. Then get them on and go on air. There was real loud music playing and a lot of yelling to make it so we couldn’t concentrate and communicate easily. It took us thirty-three minutes to get it done.

I helped Jay with a project he is working on with starting to use text messages to people on the department to announce things like training updates, transfers, and more. That way people outside of the area of the pager can get notified of things more easily.

We ran one call up to Palouse. When we cleared the hospital we picked up the food for dinner. We had turkey burgers and fries. It was very good. We watched Super Troopers before going to bed around eleven o’clock.