entertainment FossilMedic on 25 May 2008 08:42 am
Tonight’s Channel Choice
FossilMedic’s viewing suggestion for tonight:
KENTLAND 33 ON INTERNET TV!
theBattalion is an internet TV series that produces 20 minute episodes every Sunday. http://www.thebattalion.tv/
Each episode provides a “day in the life” firefighter perspective. They started with San Francisco and then went to the District of Columbia. Tonight’s episode starts a new series from the heart of two-hatter land … from a note on their website:
Dear Battalion Viewers,
If you don’t know about the Kentland Fire Company, go to www.kentland33.com and check these guys out.
This Sunday at 7:00 PST we will introduce some of the firefighters from this community; I was on more runs there in ten or so days than in three weeks in San Francisco; these guys work really hard and know what they are doing and it beat me up just filming them.
I understand that they are one of the busiest 100% volunteer fire company’s in the world.
When I was there a firefighter from Denmark arrived and spent two weeks doing a ride along and it was his first time to the USA and that is the only place he went to…you’ll see him later in the Kentland Series.
About twenty-five of these guys live there 24/7-365, they really love what they do; check it out.
on 26 May 2008 at 9:14 am 1.Call_it_as_I_see_it said …
I don’t care how much fire or action that these guys see. If all you do is hang out and don’t have a job that pays, you are a bum. Plain and simple. You can catch a fire everyday for a whole year, what does that get you in real life? Nothing! It’s not like these firehouse fratboys are going to walk into a major city fire department as a line officer just because they were a member @ 33. The American fire service is not set up this way. Unless, you are going to get hired on at a rural fire department. What a bunch of choads.
on 26 May 2008 at 6:46 pm 2.Mike "fossilmedic" Ward said …
Well, most of them do have jobs as career firefighters in the Washington DC area: DCFD, suburban counties, federal government or contract fire protection. This includes a large nunber of the permanent live-ins.
A former Kentland fire chief obtained a senior chief’s job in a Florida city without a college degree. Spent two decades as a county firefighter - never promoted. He was hired based on his Kentland experience.