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Any CAL FIRE guys?

Discussion in 'Jobs & Careers' started by Stillfly199, Nov 9, 2009.

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  1. Dec 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM
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    Nice, how do you like the santa barbara area?
     
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  2. Dec 19, 2009 at 3:37 PM
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    It's awesome here! Wouldn't have it any other way!
     
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  3. Dec 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM
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    Ester VFD, Lt. Williams. Used to be with Rancho Adobe fire in Cotati CA
     
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  4. May 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM
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    im a firefighter in maryland
     
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  5. May 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM
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    SLU, nice. Our engine covered down there a couple years ago, wasnt on it though, I was on the Witch fire. How do you like it down there?
     
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  6. May 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM
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    Hey guys, thought i would throw some photos your way.
    1st one is from yesterday, test flying one of our buckets for the upcoming season.
    The other two are from last summer.

    Hope you all have a safe summer irregardless of which base your calling home these days.

    kato

    rsz_img_1227.jpg
    rsz_img_9388.jpg
    rsz_img_9508.jpg
     
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  7. May 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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    Nice dude. That first pic is bad ass. Our first academy is next week. I missed it because I guess RPT never got my medical paperwork I turned in, so I am not cleared to go back to work. Gotta love the state. This happens up here all the time. So how is it being a medic?
     
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  8. May 12, 2010 at 6:50 PM
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    I just got a call from our hiring coordinator, she calls and says "Jack, I hear your not coming back?" I said "NONONONO RPP never got my paperwork, I will find out more tomorrow on whats gonna happen" she laughed and said "Be here monday the 17th at 0800." So I got freakin lucky. The first academy is usually the easiest because the instructors dont give a shit lol
     
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  9. May 12, 2010 at 7:05 PM
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    This is my 4th season. Our rehire academy sucks. Its at a station in the middle of nowhere with no cell service and if more than 3 people are on the internet it pretty much doesnt work and your stuck in the barracks with 30 dudes and 4 toilets, it gets pretty nasty in there quick lol
     
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  10. May 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM
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    Ya we get the option to go home too, but its about a 45-1hr drive for me and I guess they look down on you if you go home. Thanks man, im sure it will be boring as usual. My engine number is 2468, pretty easy to remember. We dont get out a whole lot, cuz we're must cover and a 1 1/2hr drive from HQ
     
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  11. May 12, 2010 at 10:54 PM
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    Ours is a 14. A slow as hell 14 :laugh: The reason it takes us over 1 1/2hrs to get to the ECC is because we have to go over 2 summits at 15mph lol. We are starting to get a lot of the 34's, man those things are nice
     
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  12. Aug 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM
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    I am on a USFS Idaho handcrew, have been for five years. Been on MANY California fires. All I can say is the Cal Fire guys really know their LCES.....Locate Cooler, Establish Shade. We always get a kick out of it. Once after a 24 hour shift in N Cal, we were driving out at 5 AM, loopy from hiking and working so long, and there was a Cal Fire crew asleep in the dozer trail....bout got runned over due to all the smoke and dust!!! Talk about bad place to catch some Z'zzzz! We got a folding chair that has CAL FIRE wrote on the back, just to remind us of Cali. It is also a running joke how you can tell CAL FIRE guys from shots/handcrews at dinner....always clean as a whistle after a fire shift. Nice guys n gals though, makes some of us want to join just so we dont have to hike our dicks in the dirt all day and we can just sit back n watch it burn.
     
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