This internship has been really fun and I don't want to leave. This internship had taught me so much about the world of fire fighting, and what it takes do be a fire fighter. But most importantly I have been taught and lectured about the fire field and how I should approach it using a college path. Most of these guys that are younger have not gone to college and they just went into the fire academy, and got their paramedic and EMT license. Almost all of them told me not to do that, the reason is because they don't a a degree in anything. You can't do anything else if you don't have a degree, so lets say you get hurt and you can no longer be a firefighter, you would have no where to go, and that would be a big problem. So all of them told me to get my degree first and focus on your life go out and have fun, the reason they told me that was because once your a fire fighter, you have to settle into being a fire fighter and nothing else "this job is like am anchor" one of them said. So basically yes this internship gave me a very good in site on what I would want to do after high school and past college. Yes I still want to be a fire fighter, and i'm definitely going to go to college and have fun and explore and really get to know who I am before I settle into the fire field. I first plan on going to a community college and getting my AA degree in fire science, and at the same time attend a 4 year university and get my bachelors degree in either criminal justice or public safety. Then I want to go out into the world and go explore it and who I truly am. Then when Im done having fun around the world and experiencing new things, Im going too get my EMT and paramedics license, then apply to work as a paramedic on the ambulance with the Escondido Fire Department. Once I have done that I will finally join the fire academy and become a fire fighter paramedic. Then I will slowly work my way up the "ladder" and retire as a Fire Capitan, or a Battalion Chief.
Link to my Final product (last page of my presentation) docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RsWRzje70oK3eURv9YaykRqutY0DKrcxXutoZwgmA_Q/edit?usp=sharing The reason why this project is is important is because, it shows that Fire station #1 the type of calls, when they receive the calls, average age of patient, comparison between male and female call rate, etc. They would like to know this stuff because they were trying to figure out the call ratio in different settings (the type of call and why the person called). The process that I went through to get all of this information was hard at times. The reason that It would be hard to get the data was because sometimes it was hard to understand dispatch and some of the codes that they were saying. Sometimes they can and will talk super fast over the radio which makes it harder for me to understand them. But once I was done listening to the call, I would write it down in my note book in a certain format. (picture below).
This is a picture of the back of the fire station. Now normal fire stations are a lot smaller than this one, this is the biggest fire station in Escondido where fire men do a lot of training. The building in the back is the training tower where they set up different drills and actually use live fire. There are also two 200 pound training dummies in the tower that they would use in some drills. The building in the front is where the fire engine, truck, ambulance, BC car, and brush rig get gas from. In this building there is also a air tank fill station, where fire fighters go to fill up their air tanks after fires or training sessions. These 4 pictures were taken on a training day, where fire fighters got all suited up and did a "fire fighter down" drill. What is cool about this was that different stations from different city's all came in and did the same drill. In this drill I was sitting in E131 (Engine 131). In the top 2 pictures they are gearing up and attaching hoes's to do a frontal "offense" attack on the fire. The bottom left picture is fire men carrying the downed fire fighter out of the building. The bottom right picture is inside of E131 where I sit on the Engine and where the engineer keeps his gear. In these images above, one of the probationary firefighters is practicing patient evacuation with repelling. In the top left they are hooking up all of the ropes to the back of the fire truck, using the fire truck as an anchor. The top middle picture is the ladder extending out over the patient (this ladder can extend to 100ft at 70 degrees and hold 5,000 pounds). On the top right there is a picture of the probationary fire fighter hooking up the 200 pound dummy to a harness to carry it out. On the bottom left the probationary fire fighter it being lifted up by the ladder with the dummy in his arms. The bottom middle picture the fire fighter is going down to pick up the dummy for extraction. The bottom right picture is the fire truck engineer and I going up on the ladder to get into a position where we are over the dummy. In the pictures above are all of the vehicles that the station has, all of them have really important roles. On the top left is an image of T131 (the fire truck), the truck is only used for bigger fires, car accidents, rescues etc. But the truck dose not have any water or hoes in it. It is basically a huge tool box with a huge ladder (100ft long). The picture in the top middle is the fire engine (E131), (which I am in), the engine goes on medical aids, fires, brush fires, lift assists, etc. The fire engine has all of the hoes's holds water and fire foam, and it is also has a water pump that pumps water from fire hydrants. The top left picture is (RT131) the reserve fire truck, this truck is only used when the main fire truck is being fixed, but it has all of the same tools that the main fire truck has. On the bottom left picture is the brush rig, this truck goes on brush fire calls . When there is a brush fire all of the firemen that are on the fire truck will go in this truck because the fire truck dose not go on brush fire calls. The bottom middle picture, is a picture of the Battalion chief's car (B131), Their is only one Battalion chief in all of Escondido (but there is one per shift, there are 3 shifts), because I am at the biggest station in Escondido the Battalion chief is stationed here. The Battalion chief goes on major freeway accidents, all fires (except small ones), huge brush fires, building collapses, and every big event that there is. On the bottom left is the fire ambulance, they would go to ALL medical aids, transports, and fires.
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