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How is your team set up?
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Posted 3 months ago I would just like to get some feedback on how all of your teams are set up, what uniforms you wear if any, how you get your equipment to the scene (trailer, truck, etc) and how those rigs are set up. In my County Team we are still in the growing phase and are trying to iron out all the wrinkles. We are looking to get uniforms, like BDU's with tactical boots so we look professional. We are currently stored in 2 separate trailers that need to be towed to the scene of our calls and its rough getting A) Trucks to tow them and B ) People that can drive them. So we are looking to find someone with an old Rescue truck to either sell cheap or donate to us. We are going to totally re-arrange our trailers too so we have all we need in one trailer to get started, and have the extra stuff on the back-up trailer for long jobs. How does everyone else work? Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated, and any pictures you may have of your uniforms, trucks and set ups would be great too. Thanks in advance! Moose Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 3 months ago As far as I know, my HAZMAT team wears only level A suits. We carry all are equipt. by a trailer that is pulled by our HAZMAT truck, which is a rescue truck that has HAZMAT equiptment in it also. The trailer that is pulled is like an RV. We use it to store equiptment but also as a command post inside. It is divided into 3 parts. 1: you have the command post with radios, books, lab tops, monitiors. 2: HAZMAT suit compartments and clothing compartments. 3: Storage for equiptment. Like you, we are still in the growing phase and still trying out new things. As far as clothing, we just have the normal station wear with HAZMAT Tech logo t -shirts. I will work on sending you pictures. We have tons of pictures on set up and equiptment. I have to find them and I will send them to you. It may take a while. "Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Bagdad ain't shit." "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." United States Marine Corps |
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| Posted 3 months ago Excellent, pictures would be great. I have another drill/meeting next wednesday and will take pictures to show all of you what we have. As far as the uniforms are concerned, I meant for big county drills, training classes, parades and formal meetings with other agencies so that we look professional and neat. Usually we all show up in whatever we were wearing for the day, including the farm coveralls spattered in cow maneur!!!!! LOL We priced BDU shirts and pants, and tactical boots at $100 per member, which is not bad, that includes a ball cap as well that we could embroider or sew a patch on. Our BDU Shirt would have our Haz-Mat Tech patch on right arm, USA flag on left, and our team logo patch on the left breast with our names. We are still trying to come up with a good logo design too for our county team. Anyone else have any input for me? Keep it coming please!!! lol
Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 3 months ago $100 is not bad at all. I'm looking forward to seeing what your guys set up is and equiptment. Do you have or use the Auora? The unifroms sound great. The flag is supposed to be one the right side though. Your logo on the left. You're name strip goes on the right breast pocket and your employeer or fire dept goes on the left breast pocket. That is how BDU's are supposed to be. "Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Bagdad ain't shit." "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." United States Marine Corps |
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| Posted 3 months ago our team is funded trought VDEM they have 8 team trought out VA. my team is in swest va near bburg and VT we cover all odf southwest va from christainbura to tenn line on I-81 aoo of I-77 from NC to WVA you have a 42' trailer with a 2000 frifghtliner to pull it also a 24' box truck on a ford out team is made up of haz-tech and haz-spec with 35 member we have one team leader 2 asst team leader training officer and equipment officer we stsrt with a old beer truck with 10 bays ans at the level II-E we are now a level 3 team we have no dress uniform if need i can sent a list of what equipment we carry if you like just let me know stay safe its a bad world out there |
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| Posted 3 months ago USMCFF413 says ...
Thank you! I was hoping someone would set me straight there about the shirt and patch set up! For some reason I always thought the flag went on the left, but thats the field of stars always has to be on the left! lol Thanks for the info, I will post some pictures of our equipment this week after our drill. Whats an Auora?
asstcaptain1406, I would love to see a list of your equipment to compare to ours. If you want, you can e-mail me the list instead of posting it here, just shoot me a PM and we can exchange e-mail addresses. Thanks for your info! Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 3 months ago Auora, I think that is spelled right is a special monitor that we have that will ready almost every material made by man and nature. It scans the compounds of a chemical and breaks it down into catogories and tells you what chemical it is. It will even tell you the brand of water it is and where it comes from. It is awsome tool we carry. It's very expensive though. "Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Bagdad ain't shit." "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." United States Marine Corps |
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| Posted 3 months ago USMCFF413 says ...
Cool, do you have any info you could e-mail or mail to us? Like a link to the company web page or online catalogue? That sounds like a great tool to have, maybe I could talk the team guru into buying it for us! Thanks Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 3 months ago The pictures are in ladies and gentlemen!! BUT...I cant figure out how to post them here in the threads so I will put them in my profile, feel free to come check them out, under the NYS fire academy Haz-Mat album. Enjoy!! Anyone else have pics of their equipment and or a clue of how to load them here?!!! LMAO Thanks guys! Brian "Moose" Jones
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| Posted 2 months ago Western Wayne County HIRT (Hazardous Incident Response Team) is made up of 20 (give or take) departments. Each member department must supply at least two personnel to the team. I was a former member, our department supplies three firefighters to the team. We have three supply vehicles, two trailers and a rescue truck (we call it the beer truck). Our department houses the beer truck and the other two are at various locations throughout the response area. Its a good team and the guy who runs it is one of the best, Chief Whitehead from the Livonia Fire Department. If you get the chance to look up some of his work do it. Here is a link to one of our bigger incidents before I left the team. This is a report delivered by a Haz-Mat team brought in to relieve us. http://www.mmfeha.org/meha/files/EQ%20Fire%20Romulus%208-2005%20MDCH%20CS.pdf
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