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Re:Firefighter Math by marcosdumay on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:35PM (#16031808)
> I don't know why the president of our volunteer fire department decided 3 of us needed to learn about Vehicle Extrication

Maybe because when you need it, you need it instantly, so he wanted to always have somebody with that knowledge on the current turn?

Re:Firefighter Math by taxicabjesus on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:05PM (#16033152)
Of the 3 of us who took 'extrication', there was myself, the volunteer fire department president's daughter, and a fellow who actually lives in that rural community full-time. The full-timer had been to fire school the year before to take a different class (pumps? how to drive a fire apparatus? I don't remember).

The most interesting thing for me was learning about the profession from the inside. I might've liked to have learned about driving fire trucks - maybe I'll go again.