Good evening, here is the News:
Team Meeting—Wednesday, 10 October, 6:00—7:00pm
(expect this one to run a little over). Let's meet at our rally
point. Some of you have not been there. Our rally point is in Mira
Mesa Community Park, on New Salem just East of Camino Ruiz. more or less
between Fire Station 38 and the Rec Center. We're going to work through
the newly introduced FEMA course on Firefighter Rehabilitation. The real
thing is a four-hour class, so we're going to condense it a bit.
Basically after firefighters work a certain period of time, they need
structured rest and recuperation. This is a lot like treating for heat
exhaustion, which I went over in the News last month. Hydration,
electrolyte replacement, cooling down and rest in the shade are the basic
components. Ideally an evaluation by EMS is included. This is the
sort of thing some of us might get involved with in a wildfire situation, so I
want to walk through the basics and discuss how we might establish a rehab
station on the fly if we had to, or work with an already existing station.
If you feel like a little light reading, download and look
over the Participant Manual for the class before you show up:
There are several interesting modules in this new offering
from FEMA. We'll be taking a look at some of them as time permits.
Telephone Tree—I finally have this distributed.
I'd like to run a practice before the end of this month, sometime after the
Team Meeting, we'll see what works out. Several of you have asked me
about text alerts, and I have been promising it for ages. Hopefully soon,
it's a very effective tool, and I really want to use it.
All for this month, questions, comments, you know how to
find me.
-Steve
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