tour of fire station - not sure what state (maybe texas or oklahoma with creeks and ravines and gravel roads) - https://youtu.be/rfJd617_qqs?si=plS0vl9lxg3hj2GH - 21 minute
========================== if we can clean up this transcript option it will be very powerful - oligarchs will never allow it though - for example - turtleboy did a 2.5 hour show last night on the Karen Read story - imagine if you could a transcript that takes 5 minutes to read - vs watching a 2.5 hour video =================== toggled off the timestamps Transcript yo my name is Matt Gordon captain of the green shift welcome to Lindsey Fire Department right here we've got our lobby this is open to the public 24 hours a day it's equipped for with doorbells for the EMS side and the Fireside we have our Chiefs office here he's Monday through Friday eight to five and then obviously if there's any serious calls he's here uh super quick and and basically all of our paperwork goes through this office so thank you right here we've got our report room um at Lindsay fire department we run every medical call so when we get back whether it's medical fire motor vehicle accident whatever it may be our reports get done here and uh filed away and then we turn them in on our clipboard they go to Chief right here will be our day room this is kind of where everybody hangs out all day all night sometimes here at our this is our table here that you know training goes down studying obviously when we eat together sits around the table and uh can you show the favorite personality anyways after 5 p.m uh you know we could hang out in our recliners watch TV watch sporting games whatever it may be um and then here's our kitchen so it's pretty basic and uh you know if you want to cook or or warm something up or whatever you want to do this is the room to do it in so we've got a washer and dryer back here over here is our assistant Chief's office he takes care of [Music] all right welcome back so you guys got to hear our tones go off uh sorry about the interruption for a medical emergency there but like I said you just never know when it's going to happen so back to our tour this is like I said the uh assistant Chief's office all of our paperwork runs through there certifications EMTs National Registries all of our you know schoolings for fire one fire two hazmats everything gets kept up to date here our CPR renewals our assistant Chiefs on top of that as long as us you know we are too but uh he reminds us say we've got to get those updated or we've got to enroll in this class or whatever he takes on that that role and and make sure the paperwork side of things gets taken care of um there's a list busted up around the station so Mondays we clean empty the trash cans scrub scrub everything down wash the Bays across the street uh Tuesdays we run all the pumps the fans the solves the generator we run our execution tools uh check all the oil levels and Fuel and every truck and piece of equipment we do all this stuff in the morning every shift but it's a focused day on Tuesday for sure Wednesdays we wash every truck even if we haven't you know ran a fire the day before the morning of we just scrub everything down and make sure it's uh well kept Thursdays we go do all the yard work outside mow weedy Edge we take care of a building across the road as well and uh just kind of get all that taken care of and tidied up Friday we check all the SCBA units make sure all the cylinders are full batteries are charged we do this every morning at seven o'clock also but Fridays we just pay a little bit extra attention to that because at the end of the day you know the the air could save somebody's life so uh Saturday is a little bit more low-key we we run our trucks every morning at seven check our gear make sure the station's clean and then we can finish any unfinished projects on Saturday and Sunday and get ready for the upcoming week back here we've got our you know regular laundry room um these are more maps of of the rural areas these kind of tell you you know your County Roads your boundaries we cover 155 square miles just just our department Alone um and then our EMS division they cover a little bit over 200 square miles we've got Hydro Maps posted here um every every firefighter here has a printout of of hydrant maps and street maps and and uh you know when you come on here we we study those so when the time comes we know what's going on like I said here's our day room at 5 PM we can kick our feet up and kind of relax because you never know what's going to happen throughout the night so I'll take you guys upstairs and and you can see after we wind down kind of where we sleep all right so we got two bedrooms each firefighter has their own bed and you know we make our beds every morning before we leave and uh you know make sure your area is clean this room is equipped with a bathroom here and uh each individual firefighter has their own their own locker where they can keep their you know station clothes or uh you know whatever they need to personal items in their locker so there's two bedrooms like I said uh this is uh another one there's five beds in here and you know you kind of this is your area at night so this is where we sleep and uh yeah so out here if you want to follow me this way this is our little workout area it's uh not much but a lot of our job you know it's physical and and uh this can we've got a Peloton a treadmill free weights so this can kind of keep you in shape a little bit better so anyways if you guys want to go check out the trucks we'll head downstairs this this Bay here houses five trucks um our rescue truck that we run all of our medical calls in uh usually houses are extrication equipment a Stokes basket any kind of rescue or technical rescue stuff and our life packs stay on that Trek it's currently in the shop so right now we're running medical claws out of our brush unit here this one goes on all grass fires right now it's going on medical calls too it holds 300 gallons of water here so when we when we get on scene on a grass fire or whatever it may be if this truck's called on it can get an initial knock down so yeah in this house it's got foam and and uh you know blower chainsaw all that on there so this is one of our bigger trucks right here it's our 75 foot ladder and we've had it a few years now and and it's got uh all kinds of tools on it from entry tools to spare hoses LDH hose we cook to hydrant and then obviously we can charge the ladder and really put out some serious water so best trucks um got MSA packs all over it it goes on every structure in town and these MSA packs have a thermal imaging on there so each firefighter that enters the structure you know if the Smoke Gets too heavy and it's not to the point of having to get out yet they can look down and kind of see what's going on like I said this is one of our main Intown trucks a few gallons which can get used pretty quick so we'll tie into either hydrant or or a another you know engine of pump into it so yeah this this thing's uh it's cool it's all there for sure I'm coming around here this is our engine one as we call it um it runs in time structures this truck doesn't leave the uh the city limits you know more or less but it can pop it it holds a thousand gallons so we can pull up on scene and you've got a little time to you know spray before you either got to hook up or have another truck you know pumping into it so um as well as the other one it's got uh MSA air packs in every seat and it's equipped with just about everything you need we can run anything from you know a gas leak to uh you know full-on structure fire with this with this unit um backing up here this this truck here is our unit 28. so this truck runs rural structure fires um it holds a thousand gallons as well and it's got lines coming out on each side it's got crosslays on top it's got a booster line which is what our red line and then you can either nose up to a fire as long as you're upwind from it and you can pull the hose straight out of that bumper and attack the fire it's got an air pack in every seat as well and this is an all-wheel drive truck as you can see it's uh it's made to get in the down County Roads and in places maybe these big engines can't get to so it cool it holds our extrication equipment so this is kind of our blocker when we go on a motor vehicle accident we'll stage this and the lanes and uh and protect us as long as our EMS and police officers are Highway Patrol this is kind of a do-it-all truck it's got a backup extrication tool generator you know hydraulic lines cribbing units uh you know I'm gonna run a serious accident it's got all the tools we need to to victim out get him help so moving back here we used to have another truck that sits right here but it's currently in the in the shop getting worked on um I'll take you into our bunker room so right here is our bunker room like I said we uh 37 MSA cylinders they hold a 4500 PSI here which depending on how heavy you're breathing or whatever you've usually got air for between you know 25 and 35-40 minutes sometimes if you're if you're really out of breath maybe maybe less but that's why we've got backups so this is our Cascade system we can fill up our own cylinders I'm pretty fortunate to have that a lot of You Know Places don't so we're uh pretty lucky to be able to do that so we wash our gear and then this is where it gets dried so a big drying unit here you can hang your coats your pants put your boots on there your gloves whatever and then uh you know heat it up and dried up this is an industrial washer unlike our personal clothes washers in there these ones you can include a certain number in and you can wash your outer liners because it'll really concentrate on getting the bad stuff off your shelves and then you can put a different soap in there and wash your inner liners which will you know ultimately touch your skin a little different soap on there and then there's different soaps for your hood and gloves and all that but uh We Run The Kelly shift here with three colors so we've got red blue and green uh green shifts on today so red houses their stuff here um while they're off as long as blue and uh yeah this is kind of each person each firefighter has their locker and and we're getting our stuff well we're not not on duty it's uh [Music] volunteers that come in and help us on the on the big jobs and and some small jobs too if we have you know more than one call at a time we are a full-time Department like I said but uh those guys they help out too which is great so backing out of here uh we'll go across the street and look at the rest of the trucks all right so this is station two uh our main stations across the road we're fortunate to have another building to house you know more trucks down here we run a lot of rural fires and uh a lot of grass fires and mutual Lake calls so these are where we we house the the extra trucks this truck right here we just got a couple years ago um it holds 3 500 gallons of water so if there's no hydrants out of town or if you know whatever it needs this this thing can can pump we can run Crossways off of it um it's got air packs on it and it holds a ton of water so this is the water tank all the way back and then this is pretty neat because you can do a water shuttle and this folds down and puts a a pool out so this water or this truck I'm sorry can can detach the pool drop it and then we can shuttle water to the fire back and forth where we can fill up our smaller trucks so moving on to the next one um this truck here it's one of our our go-getters so when we have a uh a big big bad grass fire out there this one's uh one of the main dudes so this is a initial knockdown truck along with 22 and this thing can Baja just through about any pasture or down any Gravel Road and and uh like I said our main tanker over here has got 3 500 gallons where these are equipped within you know between 650 and we've got a few trucks that go all the way up to 1250 gallons so this is a standard truck it's been here for a long time and and uh you know these old trucks right here are kind of the backbone of this station so we we maintain them good and and uh we're proud of them so anyways walking around here we uh this truck's one of our trucks it's a clip with a spray bar so if we get in a situation and uh we need we need to spray water out of the bumper we can be in the cab and kind of uh put the fire out as we go so moving on to this this is our brush unit 24. uh we just had the the privilege to put this truck together last year um pretty proud of it uh we got it as a cabin chassis only and uh we kind of built it in-house here just to kind of save on expenses and then get it the way we need it for for our the way we run so it's got 600 gallons or about 550 on it and uh you know it's it's got a red line where you can not put so much water out or if uh you know it's one of the initial trucks we can use this line here and throw some serious water down so anyways we did all the plumbing uh we we put it all together here in house so from the bed to the uh to running all the pumps and everything so we're pretty pretty proud of this piece and and you know we like to keep them in good shape we've got another grass unit here this is you know again one of the older trucks but but it still still runs and and uh I found fire off of it myself so it's a good one so uh right here when we go out on a a big grass fire out of town or whatever it may be we can set up you know incident command or if Chief's running IC or you know if it's a county-wide deal this truck or this trailer here sorry uh carries extra fuel for our pumps so when they come back to the tanker to get water we can top them off with fuel it's got lights a generator usually you know people around here are super friendly and they bring some food out to us on on our long all night fires and and this will you know light up the area it's kind of a meeting place so we built this trailer and house about three years ago and and uh yeah we've we've used it more than we thought we would and it's coming real handy so right here we've got a White Tower so like I said when we set up I see we can haul this out and uh you know have a little meeting area so over here we've got extra hoses stored we come in from a fire we take the hoses that are dirty wash them we hang them up to dry and then replace them with the new follow me out here and we'll uh show you some other stuff [Music] right here it's a 40-foot Tower your fire would pull the trucks in here we could refill them [Music] until they're full and then pull our hoses off wash them in this area and then we uh we hang them up here to dry for a couple days or however long they need so we climb that with a safety harness on of course and then hang our hoses yep going on to our next building here it's got some uh different kinds of rescue equipment so we're fortunate enough to get uh a boat and due to having the river the Lakes everything you know going on around here due to water you can uh we get a call for a water rescue we've got the capability to deploy this unit here and go make a rescue it's equipped with all the water water rescue stuff and then uh you know a big big motor to get up and down the river even when it's Swift so anyways and then this year to here is our Can-Am it holds 70 gallons of water here on a pump and uh if there's hot spots or tough to reach areas Creek bottoms you know whatever it may be kind of getting down in the Ravine this this thing can go go after it so anyways but uh yeah so you've seen the fire station and see where we live we're here a third of the Year per shift so we live here and we're we're all a family and kind of wanted you guys to to see what what goes on here so we uh get a lot of chores done run quite a few different different calls whether it be Medicals there's a lot of highways that run through town out of town lots of wrecks and uh yeah run the run the fires so thanks for joining us and uh that's Lindsay fire department 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