Training Night 6/10

Well, last night was to be the first night of the Essentials class, but it got postponed, so I went to our training night.

Actually, a little after 6pm, the sky got dark and lightning started flashing, so I started watching the radar (via the NWS website), then opened up WebCAD, and was just amazed. Usually, there are 10-15 active medical calls, and one or two active fire calls; last night there were maybe 7-8 medical and twice that for fire. So I headed down to the station at 6:30pm, and I was one of the last few to arrive. Fortunately, the storm largely passed south of us, and we didn't get called out.

While waiting to see what would happen, a captain gave me a tour of the compartments on the squad vehicle. There are five on each side, (six if you count the one on the bottom), each containing various pieces of equipment for use in various types of calls. There are also items inside, on both sides of the crew seats. After going through them all, he let me know that I can feel free to go through things on my own, and that he will show me around the engines another night. I then spent a while going around making sure I'd at least be able to remember the general contents of each compartment without having to open each one.

After seeing that we probably weren't going to be called out for the storms, we then went into the training room, and had Chief go over a few items, after which we did a gear inspection, and got issued reflective vests to be used either over or in place of our bunker coats, as appropriate for the call.

After getting set with that, I headed on home, looking forward to Thursday night.