bobcoop06
Registered
As a PSD, you've gotta keep your equipment ready for a quick response. Having all volunteer teams here, it can kind of a challenge sometimes to divers and their equipment to a scene. So how do you do it? What way works best for your teams and your response procedures?
As a fire department team, all of our equipment stays at the station. We have an area where all of our equipment is stowed. Whoever is responding grabs their bag and puts it on the truck. We have a pickup truck ('08 F150) that we use for water rescues that general equipment (tanks, ropes, etc) stays on. Being on a lake, our boat stays in the water and we just respond to the boat. We also have a smaller jon boat on a trailer for use in the rivers, wetlands, etc.
For the County team, everybody carries their personal equipment in their vehicles. The coordinator drives a truck that carries the extra tanks, ropes, extra equipment and such. There's also a trailer full of equipment for dive team responses.
How do you all do it?
(PS- I apologize if this is an old topic that has previously been talked about. I looked but couldn't find it!)
As a fire department team, all of our equipment stays at the station. We have an area where all of our equipment is stowed. Whoever is responding grabs their bag and puts it on the truck. We have a pickup truck ('08 F150) that we use for water rescues that general equipment (tanks, ropes, etc) stays on. Being on a lake, our boat stays in the water and we just respond to the boat. We also have a smaller jon boat on a trailer for use in the rivers, wetlands, etc.
For the County team, everybody carries their personal equipment in their vehicles. The coordinator drives a truck that carries the extra tanks, ropes, extra equipment and such. There's also a trailer full of equipment for dive team responses.
How do you all do it?
(PS- I apologize if this is an old topic that has previously been talked about. I looked but couldn't find it!)