Ok, new computer is working fantastic, but I haven’t been motivated to log - however I have stuff to put down.
Today I got to play in a simulated engine room and put out a REAL fire with fuel floating on water.
It was hot, as you might imagine. At one point I looked down and saw fire licking at my legs because the nozzleman didn’t sweep the fuel away effectivly.
I was nozzleman in a small room (a simulated machinery space) and just couldn’t get the fire to go out. I had been expecting the instructor to kill the gas when i waved the hose in the perscribed fashion, and figured I must be using poor technique, and he was punishing me. After the exercise he confessed that a fuel can had been forgotten behind the machinery and so I was not at fighting a simulated fire, but a real fuel fire.
Up till now all the fires we have been fighting are propane, and the instructors can kill the fuel to stop everything. Now, in advanced fire fighting, we have real fires. We put them out, or they stay burning.
Very fun. Camera ran out of battery, but charging it now and will have more photos tomorrow.
Unedited photos can be seen here.
Katy is now playing rock paper scissor for a buck with a bum.
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