In a message dated 9/12/2010 7:18:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, kimnoyes@gmail.com writes:
Louis,
Various municipal and county departments around California use the terminology even for vegetation fires but not Calfire or the Forest Service as far as I know.
Kimmer
Ah this makes sense so i would then assume that the agency decides just what a 2nd alarm wildfire is and the like just as they would for say a building fire or a HAZMAT job.
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--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, lnmolino@... wrote:
>
> Kim I have been a Firefighter/EMT since 1981 I've even been a Fire Officer
> and Chief so the term is not one I am not familiar with used them myself a
> time or two ;)
>
> I have limited Wildland/forest fire training and even less Wildland fire
> experience. and at that it is New jersey where we never did anything like
> Y'all do in CA (AKA the land of fruit and nuts where I came from).
>
> I know of no forest fire agency that used those terms but rather used the
> direct form of calling for resources such as 3 Engine Strike Teams or 2
> structural task forces and such. Alarm levels in the municipal and structural
> world are as varied as their are jurisdictions in the US.
>
> Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET
> In a message dated 9/12/2010 7:02:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> kimnoyes@... writes:
>
>
>
> The expression "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, alarm" etc. has been in use in various
> parts of California my entire life.
>
> If you've watched the TV series "Emergency" you have heard these
> expressions used.
>
> Kimmer
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--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, lnmolino@... wrote:
>
> Kim I have been a Firefighter/EMT since 1981 I've even been a Fire Officer
> and Chief so the term is not one I am not familiar with used them myself a
> time or two ;)
>
> I have limited Wildland/forest fire training and even less Wildland fire
> experience. and at that it is New jersey where we never did anything like
> Y'all do in CA (AKA the land of fruit and nuts where I came from).
>
> I know of no forest fire agency that used those terms but rather used the
> direct form of calling for resources such as 3 Engine Strike Teams or 2
> structural task forces and such. Alarm levels in the municipal and structural
> world are as varied as their are jurisdictions in the US.
>
> Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET
> In a message dated 9/12/2010 7:02:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> kimnoyes@... writes:
>
>
>
> The expression "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, alarm" etc. has been in use in various
> parts of California my entire life.
>
> If you've watched the TV series "Emergency" you have heard these
> expressions used.
>
> Kimmer
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