Gear

firefighting in the relatively short time I’ve been on the department, but I have learn quite a bit. In this essay I will do my best to detail the equipment I used, the skills I have learned, and the certifications I have earned. A firefighter’s bunker gear is his first line of defense against the dangers of a burning building; it consists of a helmet, hood, jacket, overalls, and boots. The helmets used by the SVFD are made for structural fires and are built with thermoplastic materials; they…

L for Lazy The dictionary defines lazy as averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion. I have a very big tendency to be all of those. Laziness is a very big problem in the world and in society and needs to be fixed. In the book the Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a young lady by the name of Hester Prynne. Hester’s husband had left town and Hester had slept with another man. Well this was found out by the whole town when they knew her husband was gone and she ended…

would win 2 tickets to watch the Eagles play against the Broncos on December 27. Also we had to send the picture and a picture of me in all of my Eagles gear. I was so excited that I wanted to get started right away. After doing homework and days of designing and coloring it was finished and we took a picture of it and then I got dressed in all my gear.…

All throughout my life building and fixing various items has been important to my family and me. Growing up I had my fair share of breaking things and poorly attempting to fix them. I was always devastated when I broke things, but my dad did not really seem to mind he likes to fix things. When I was around twelve years old my dad built our shop. The shop held all of our motorcycles, ATVs, and my father’s Dodge pickup. Four years have passed and I finally have my first car; a 1998…

anesthesia provider to come inject anesthesia medication in the fluids. When the patient was ready for surgery, the operating room nurse together with the anesthesia, the surgeon and I could wheel the patient to the operating room wear the required sterile gear and perform the required surgery. I was also responsible to help nurses in the recovery bay after patient’s surgery. I was a senior technician in charge of five other junior technicians who we worked as a team. I oversaw ordering of…

dome. He was an apprentice for a goldsmith as a boy, and there he had “mastered drawing and painting, wood carving, sculpture in silver and bronze, stone setting, niello, and enamel work. Later he studies optics and tinkered endlessly with wheels, gears, weights, and motion, building a number of ingenious clocks…” Needless to say, he was a very talented and gifted person. The motivation for the construction of the dome was a contest. The cathedral had a hole in the roof, and no one could…

firefighter in familiarizing his or her self with the gear that will keep their person safe while performing the duties needed at a fire scene. PPE consists of Turnout gear, the Nomex® hood and helmet, and the SCBA (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus). The third course that firefighters must take is the Wildland Firefighting course. This course is to teach firefighters how to handle things such as brush fires, field fires, and forest fires. The gear, equipment and tactics required for wildland…

For example, Krakauer includes a memory that Jim Gallien had, an older man that transports Chris to the Stampede Trail, were he was concerned about Chris’s gear load, “His gear seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh condition of the interior” (5). This shows that living as a minimalist that you rely on your abilities rather than your belongings. Another example, when Chris decides to get rid of what he does not…

I identify myself as an American born citizen from Chattanooga, Tennessee. After I lived in Tennessee for fifteen years I moved to Florida. I identify myself as this because I have origins from all around the world such as Scotland, Ireland, and obviously the United States of America. Since America is a mixture of origins in itself and I have a mixture of origins, I am an American. I identify myself as an American not only because I have a mixture origins, but because my family provides…

In outdoor exploration, sometimes failure can be a source of motivation. Throughout the course of our twenty-five-year friendship, we have experienced motivational challenges at both Eagle Peak and the nearby Hat Mountain, the high points of Modoc and Lassen Counties, respectively. The summit of Eagle Mountain, called Eagle Peak, is, at 9,896 feet, the undisputed high-point of thinly-populated Modoc County as well as the highest point in the South Warner Wilderness. Modoc County, located on…