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Where is everyone???
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2005 Jan 3, 16:33 -0800
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2005 Jan 3, 16:33 -0800
I logged on for the 1st time in 2 weeks hoping to have some good topics to read and nothing so far this year and very little during the last weeks of ' 04.Hope all of you had pleasant holidays. Is there any interest in data from the cross-country trek we took in Nov.? I'm only going to post it if someone is interested. Got back from a training exercise on the 30th and had more of a realistic training program than planned for.Some heavy-duty storms rolled over us while underway and really made the training have an edge to it.Great for the students to experiance(they thought we had it planned/under control)but terrifying for us that knew better. One of our fires during a night time firefighting exercise got away from us.Strong winds shifted while the vessel was rigged as NUC(no manouverability)and before we were ready the fire really took off because of the extra oxygen feeding the flames in the compartment.They got a good taste of a what a real threatening situation feels like and how to act/react to it.For that matter so did the rest of us.And we don't even charge extra for the realism. I only bring it up as a reminder that even when one thinks and/or plans some activity on the big ponds of the world it can go to hell-in-a-handbasket at the worst of times over the most trivial of events.