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This time next Friday …

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UnoChicagoLogoI will be in Baltimore and headed for the Uno Chicago Grill at the Inner Harbor.

This is a special EMS Today related gathering that is open to all Fire/EMS bloggers, friends of bloggers, EMS 2.0 advocates and Chronicles of EMS fans.

Starts at 8 pm at:

201 East Pratt Street
Harborplace’s Pratt Street Pavilion
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-625-5900

Just east of the Baltimore Convention Center.

Sponsored by The George Washington University – Emergency Health Services Program, JEMS and FireEMSBlogs.com.

Draft Beer, Non Alcoholic Beverages and Appetizers will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional food and a cash bar will also be available. We’ll have a special area sectioned off for our bloggers as part of a larger area of the restaurant that will be ours where everyone can connect

Proud To Be A Sponsor

Wearing my “day job” hat, I am proud to be one of the meet-up sponsors.  I am looking forward to meeting Justin and Mark (these guys),

Also excited to place some names and faces together.

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I will bring information about GWU’s distance education bachelor’s degree in EMS Management and master’s degree in Emergency Service Management.

We can talk about the EMS professional development model developed by FESHE at the National Fire Academy.

NEED A HEAD COUNT

If you are planning to stop by the meet-up next Friday, please post a message below.  I need to provide a headcount by Tuesday.

Hope to see you there!

Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

Posted by fossilmedic on February 26, 2010 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Fire Blogs, Fire Rescue Topics, News, Technology & Communications, Twitter, beer, culture, fun • Tagged: , , ,

Proper Probie Preparation

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A PROBATIONARY FIREFIGHTER’S TRAINING AND PREPARATION  is intense and continuous.  The flow of information, tips, and advice seemingly never stops as the shift Lieutenant keeps the information flowing in an attempt to bring the probie up to full firefighter status.

Firefighter Steve Piper in Missouri teamed up with “Fireball” Laurence Delorme to create this training video on one of the most important facets of a probie’s training:

Posted by firegeezer on February 16, 2010 • Filed under: Training, Training & Development, Videos, fun • Tagged:

A Sunday Emergency !

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Season Two, Episode 20

Rip-Off

Posted by firegeezer on January 31, 2010 • Filed under: Sunday Emergency, Videos, fun

Weekend Caption Contest

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THIS POOR FIREFIGHTER has not only lost his gloves, but he has also lost the caption to his photograph, and we don’t know what is going on.

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Help us out and provide what you think the caption to this photo should read by putting it in the Comments.

Posted by firegeezer on January 29, 2010 • Filed under: Fire Rescue Topics, caption contest, fun • Tagged:

Root Beer Bottle Symphony

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART’S BIRTHDAY is being celebrated this week.  To help the festivities, a YouTube channeler who loves to be innovative with his video productions put together a special musical tribute to the musical giant.

MysteryGuitarMan (as he calls himself) used six root beer bottles filled to varying levels to make some musical clips and then edited and assembled them together to produce  a good reproduction of Mozart’s Overture of “Die Zauberflöte”.  Enjoy this quality musical interlude:

Posted by firegeezer on January 28, 2010 • Filed under: Videos, fun

New EMT’s – - – Not

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AFTER FOUR WEEKENDS OF INTENSE training and study, the latest class of EMT candidates came oh, so close to joining the neighborhood rescue squad.  But after all that, they failed the practicals.


Cheap Ambulance Ride Ends Poorly – Watch more Funny Videos

Posted by firegeezer on January 26, 2010 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Videos, fun • Tagged: ,

A Sunday Emergency !

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Season 2 – Episode 17

Honest

Posted by firegeezer on January 24, 2010 • Filed under: Videos, fun • Tagged:

Weekend Caption Contest

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IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER FINE FIRE/EMS photograph has lost its caption.  Without it, we are having a difficult time figuring out what is going on here:

There isn’t any fire that needs putting out.  And we don’t see the Dunk-the-Chief-in-the-Barrel game set up.  So help us out and post what you think the caption should be in the Comments.

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Posted by firegeezer on January 22, 2010 • Filed under: fun • Tagged:

A Sunday Emergency !

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Season 2, Episode 18

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Posted by firegeezer on January 17, 2010 • Filed under: Videos, fun • Tagged: , ,

Garlic-Flavored Ice Cream, Anyone?

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NO?  WELL HOW ABOUT MACARONI AND CHEESE ICE CREAM?  For most people, Rum-and-Raisin would be a better choice.  These are just a few of the wide variety of ice cream flavors that are available at the Coromoto Ice Cream Parlor in Merita, Venezuela.  Coromoto, you see, is officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as offering more flavors of ice cream than any other shop in the world – 860 in all.

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You read that right, eight-hundred and sixty flavors.  Of course, you don’t get to choose from that many on any given day, but as they rotate the selections each day, choosing flavors according to the season, they will offer that many over the course of a year.

Each day there are approximately 60 flavors available for anxious customers, including beef flavor which is a big hit any day.  Naturally there are the traditional flavors, but when you go to a place like Coromoto, you don’t waste your opportunity on strawberry.  Not when can choose from Tomato, or Mushrooms in Wine, or Cream of Crab.  Nosiree.  So far, I haven’t found out what I’m Sorry, Darling is supposed to taste like, but I’m sure it’s an adventure.

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photo by Edmundito

Coromoto was established thirty years ago in 1980 and has become a major tourist stop along with their legion of local customers.  Here’s a locally-made video advertisement that displays the shop quite well:

BBC News has a good article that describes the place and tells you about their operation HERE.

Posted by firegeezer on January 16, 2010 • Filed under: News, Videos, fun • Tagged: , , ,

Weekend Caption Contest

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WE HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE’RE PUZZLED on this one.  Can somebody please tell us just what this Italian firefighter is doing, or saying here?  Post your answers in the Comments section.

Posted by firegeezer on January 15, 2010 • Filed under: fun • Tagged:

Brewing the Perfect Cup of Coffee

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MANY PEOPLE (rightfully so) LOOK TO FIREGEEZER FOR INFORMATION on enhancing the Coffee Experience.

Today we will share with you some secrets on how to brew the best cup of coffee you have ever tasted.  It is best explained in this video demonstration.  We should note that many people have been failing to do the most important part, properly seasoning the filter:

How to Brew a Good Cup of Coffee from Ben Helfen on Vimeo.

GeezerCup bOnce you have that perfectly-prepared pot of coffee, then the only way to successfully complete your moment of joy is to pour it into your Firegeezer Mug.  If you don’t have one yet….then CLICK HERE and order one right away!

Posted by firegeezer on January 11, 2010 • Filed under: Mug Shots, fun

A Sunday Emergency !

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Season 2 – Episode 7

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Fuzz Lady

 

Posted by firegeezer on January 10, 2010 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Videos, fun

What Is He Doing?

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THIS PHOTO OF A SUPER-STRONG FIREFIGHTER HAS BECOME separated from the story that it was illustrating.  We don’t have any idea what he is doing, so you can help us out and supply the caption that should go with this picture.  Enter it in the Comments section to get this story wrapped up.  Firegeezer thanks you.

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Posted by firegeezer on January 7, 2010 • Filed under: Vehicle Operations & Apparatus, culture, fun • Tagged: ,

Attention: Fire Marshals

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IS A SPECIAL PERMIT REQUIRED for this type of heating unit? 

How about occupancy levels, how many? 

Are four exit doors enough?

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Posted by firegeezer on January 4, 2010 • Filed under: Fire Prevention & Education, fun, inspections

A Sunday Emergency!

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We have been given permission to run another episode of Emergency!
If enough of you enjoy this weekly viewing, let us know and we will
try to post more episodes for your enjoyment.

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Season Two, Episode 5

Peace Pipe

Posted by firegeezer on January 3, 2010 • Filed under: EMS Topics, Videos, fun • Tagged:

Dixie McCall – Every Day!

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Firegeezer Contributor Steve Marshall pointed out to us that the TV Guide website has several complete episodes of Emergency! posted and you can view them for free.  I took a look and it looks like they have just about every episode online.  It took a bit of clicking around to finally get to that page, but I wrote down the path so that you, kind reader, can go directly there.

Start  HERE….then next you click on the Videos only radio button just above the search box.
Step 3:  enter emergency!  in the search box and click on the red Search button.
That takes you to a page with links to about 12 full-length episodes.  Scroll down to the bottom
of the list and you’ll see a link that says all full episodes.
Click on that link and you’ve got it.

TV Guide has given us permission to post this episode, so let’s see if it works. 
It’s supposed to run for 50 minutes, so enjoy yourself.  (where’s Dixie?)

Posted by firegeezer on December 27, 2009 • Filed under: Videos, culture, fun • Tagged: , ,

Would You Just Look at That?

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THIS RECENT PHOTO from the Vancouver, B. C. Province is begging for a new caption:

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Post your suggestion in the Comments.

Posted by firegeezer on December 26, 2009 • Filed under: fun

Santa Tracker Update

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SHORTLY AFTER 5 PM Eastern, Santa had already passed through Eastern Europe from north to south, then down into Africa where he’s making a sweep and heading north again.  Right now he’s in Cameroon, but at the pace he’s keeping, he’ll be roaring into Western Europe in the next hour.

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Keep a watch on his travels HERE.
See our early report on how the NORAD tracking plan operates HERE.

Posted by firegeezer on December 24, 2009 • Filed under: fun • Tagged:

12 Days of Public Safety

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Our friend from the PIO Social Media Training group, Greg Friese shared this seasonal song from the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Police Department and their Untrained Roo-oo-ookie with us:

Posted by firegeezer on December 24, 2009 • Filed under: fun

Musical Cheer ……. Seasonal Beer

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Season’s Greetings from the Bowen Beer Bottle Band

Hat tip to Chris B. for finding this gem.

Posted by firegeezer on December 23, 2009 • Filed under: Videos, fun • Tagged:

“Christmas Story” House Going Griswold

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THE POPULAR SEASONAL MOVIE A CHRISTMAS STORY has become a true classic in movie annals.  The story of Ralphie and his quest for Red Ryder BB gun is watched and re-watched by millions every December.

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The house in Cleveland, Ohio, where the exterior scenes were shot has long been a sightseeing stop as people seek out remembrances of the motion picture.  The Christmas Story house, as it’s known, has become a public museum of the movie and fans can visit the home and view artifacts from the movie.

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You can read about the house museum and learn more about the movie on its WEBPAGE HERE.

The museum announced earlier this year that they will be participating in a celebration of the 20th anniversary of another Christmas favorite, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, by decorating the entire building with twinkle lights, reminiscent of the Griswold’s home decorations.

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Go ahead and set aside 20 minutes to log onto the website linked above and click around the pages.  Lots of photos and lots of fun.

Posted by firegeezer on December 22, 2009 • Filed under: News, culture, fun

Mutual Aid, or Buffing?

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WHILE ONE PERSON MIGHT GUESS THIS WAS THE COMMAND CAR of a mutual-aid EMS supervisor in the Greater Boston area, somebody else would say it belonged to ChicagoLand’s most avid fire buff.

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Neither guess would be correct, though.

In actuality it belongs to a ham radio operator who has apparently attempted to set the record of how many countries he can talk to at the same time, stocking his $500 Dodge Colt with $25,000 worth of electronics.

If you are interested enough that you want to look at another 30+ pics and read a little about it, CLICK HERE.

Posted by firegeezer on December 19, 2009 • Filed under: cars, fun

Trash and Matches Don’t Mix

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TRASH AND GARBAGE have been in the news a lot lately.  So, lo and behold, along comes this home video from Russia where they seem to harbor a few Darwin-nominees themselves:

Posted by firegeezer on November 24, 2009 • Filed under: Fire Rescue Topics, fun • Tagged: , ,

When Bulbs Burn Out ….

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THE ELMHURST HOSPITAL IN QUEENS, NEW YORK, has a dedicated sign over its emergency room entrance.  But when a couple of letters in the sign burned out recently, it seemed to have improved the informational value of the sign:

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New York Times / Higgins photo

Posted by firegeezer on November 21, 2009 • Filed under: fun