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Lieutenant Terrance Gatewood - Fire Safety · Look Who's Talking

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This is Cameron Minter and our host with the
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most is Jessica Coffie. No, you didn't. No, you
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didn't. I wanted to come in on when you said
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Dickerson. I mean, but you didn't. You rushed
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me. I'm sorry. Jessica Coffie Dickerson. I mean,
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you don't have to get used to this name. You
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are the one that decided to keep Coffie. And
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now your name is long, and now you can't wait.
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Jessica Coffie Dickerson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You're going to have to get used to it. How's
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it going? You just messed up the intro. No, you
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messed up the intro. Since you're one point fingers,
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there's three point back at you. Okay. I'm doing
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good, Cam. How are you doing? I am blessed and
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highly favored. All righty. Yes, ma 'am. What's
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been up in your world? Girl, you know, my wife
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has got me working like a Hebrew, and I'm just
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doing. Like, what are some of the things you're
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doing? Are you doing, like, things around the
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house? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's all in
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her book promotion and social media and all of
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that. Oh, I got you. Yeah, I've just been really,
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really, really busy. Really busy. Really busy.
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Okay, so you know it's about to, we're coming
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up on Halloween. You know what? The day after
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Halloween, Christmas decorations. You are awful.
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Oh, you got a husband now. Oh, we're going to
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see what he's saying. And he going to put that
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Christmas tree up. No, he is not. He going to
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put his feet. I'm going to have to talk to him.
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Talk to him all you want to. I'm just really
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going to have to talk to him. You can talk to
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him, but he knows. We putting them Christmas
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decorations on. Oh, my God. That is. Awful. You
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have no shame. No. None. No shame. I'm already
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ready for that time of just holiday season. How
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many trees do you have? Well, let's see. One,
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two, three. Jesus. I usually put up like four
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or five. I think it's four. Wow. Yeah. Because,
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I mean. Because what? Because it's so, it's festive.
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But I don't put up like huge trees. I put the
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old, the little skinny six foot trees. I really
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like those. But do you decorate them? Yeah. Well,
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there ain't no difference. Well, I guess. So
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do you go out? Well, I kind of know the answer,
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but do you go all out? Like, I've seen some serious
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decorations, like the big bowls and the balloons
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or the big balls that go around. Have you seen
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that? Yeah, I saw that. Is that you? No. Okay,
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very good. Like, I love the season. I feel like
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I'm not the best decorator, but we're going to
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have some. We're going to do it. Yeah. Okay,
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here's a lifelong question. Uh -huh. Are you
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a multicolor light or a white light Christmas?
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I am a white light Christmas. Yes. I can't stand
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them multicolor bulbs. You know what? Don't hate
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on the multicolor bulbs. Because that is what
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I wanted my mom to decorate with when I was younger.
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Because, I mean, who doesn't want a colorful
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Christmas tree? You want a white Christmas. Well,
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now, no, it's not necessarily you want a white
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Christmas tree. It's you want a coordinated tree.
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Yeah, yeah. So to me, the colorful lights don't
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go with everything. Right. Exactly. They don't.
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White does. Dang, I'm agreeing with you. Yes.
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Hey, here's a big question. Yep. Are you going
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to have your husband getting out and putting
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them lights on the house? And if you do, are
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you going to have those year -long lights or
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just? I will not have him putting lights on the
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house because I don't think I have a big enough
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insurance claim just yet. Now, next year, I might.
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But, you know, there's companies that do that
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now. Oh, yeah, if you got the money. Yeah. I
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ain't got the money. Well. There's a company
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for everything you want to do. You know what?
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There is because I found this. We will clean
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your trash can company that I'm very close to
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using. That is so ridiculous. Why? Who wants
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to spend money to do what you can do in 10 minutes?
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I would because I don't want to do it myself.
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But you got a husband now. I want him doing it.
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Yes, you do. He probably doesn't want to do it.
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He probably doesn't, but we'll do it. I'm willing
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to pay for that. Yeah, I am. Just let me know.
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Oh, my goodness. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas,
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Lord have mercy. It's coming, so you need to
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get ready. Deck the halls. It's a little warm
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-up. Yeah, that's a warm -up, but you still ain't
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had that conversation, so I can't wait. till
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Christmas I will be spending Christmas in Lexington
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Cameron yes this will be like the first time
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ever and you're gonna be salty all Christmas
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day I'm not no I refuse to be salty you're gonna
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be salty no I'll just be on FaceTime with my
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family be like what y 'all doing how many gifts
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do you expect from your husband how many what
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you mean I mean it's just not quality quantity
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how many gifts should you you know what I maybe
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a few however I like experiences more than I
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like gifts so I'm not necessarily into like if
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he wants to buy me a gift cool I'm good I like
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giving him gifts but his gifts be they just be
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different they be different for me together like
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let's bake cookies and let's do that I'm good
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Yeah. Okay. Well, I refuse to go down this pathway
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with you. I refuse. I refuse. You know, Christmas
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tree is not going up until after Thanksgiving
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or Thanksgiving day or Thanksgiving day. Yeah.
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My mom usually does Thanksgiving day, but when
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Halloween hits, like I'm already like jingle
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bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. You're
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doing too much, man. You're doing too much. I
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need you to calm down just a little bit. All
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right, Cam, whatever. Just a little bit. I mean,
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let it breathe. You know what I'm saying? I mean,
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they already got Christmas stuff in the stores.
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They do. Which is ridiculous. There's a lot of
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Christmas stuff in the stores. Yeah, yeah. Before
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Christmas end, they're going to have Valentine's
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Day stuff. that part do you feel like is there
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a do the you think the stores put out you know
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holiday stuff too early yeah don't yes they're
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getting they're getting you prepared they're
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getting you in that season no see You're looking
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at it as warm and huggy, but they're looking
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at money. I need to pimp them from as much money
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as I can get. So let's start earlier and earlier
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and earlier each year. Well, whatever. That's
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what's happening. And on that, I think since
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we've gone crazy, and it better not be about
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Christmas, let's get a Coffie Break. All right.
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So for the Coffie break today, I want to say
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the biggest adventure you can take is to live
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out your dreams. How about that? That's powerful.
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Are you living your dreams? And I think this
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is a time where you can say, you know what? Am
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I living my dreams? What will it take for me
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to get there? You know, it's important to dream.
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It is really important to dream. But it's even
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more important. You know what I've learned? That
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there's nothing stopping you except yourself.
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Nothing. You know? Yep. Even with all this stuff
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I was talking about with the book promotion.
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You know, you think of something and you're like,
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oh, yeah, we'll do that later. No, now. Right
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now. Yeah. Everything can be done right now.
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And it's crazy. So, yeah. Yeah, live that dream.
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Do that dream. It's important to keep dreaming
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because this life and this world will beat you
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down if you allow it. But if you got dreams,
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what's stopping you? Live out your dreams, not
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your nightmares. Say that part. Yeah, what's
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stopping you? Ain't nothing stopping you but
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you. Yep. So jump on it. I agree. That was good.
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That was good. Well. Well, today on the show.
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She done went in her shenanigans voice. Oh, I
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want to say so much on this mic. Today on the
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show, we have a Lexington lieutenant for the
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Lexington Fire Department. His name is Terrence
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Gatewood. Hello, Terrence. Welcome to the show.
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So Terrence is a dear friend of mine. And, you
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know, sometimes I question whether he's really
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professional. However, knowing that he is, I
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am happy that we will be talking today about
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home safety, home fire safety. All right. So
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let me preface this. For all of you all living
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in wherever you live in. Right. And there's a
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constant beep, beep, because your battery. On
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the smoke detector. On the smoke detector. Or
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the carbon. Needs to be replaced. That's what
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we talking about today. Terrence, what you think
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about these people who don't? That's a tragedy
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in the neighborhood right now. It's a complete
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catastrophe. I think we got to reach the children
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first, because if they can, two years old, they
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know what a juice box is. They can recognize
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what that beeping noise is because somebody got
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to tell their parents because they're not doing
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it. Somebody got to look up in the sky and be
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like, look here, what's that beeping? You probably
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just beeped right now. Yes. As you're listening
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to this, you probably just heard it beep. Right,
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right. But you didn't hear it, you ignored it.
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That's probably what just happened. I love it.
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So, again, we want to talk about fire safety.
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When it comes to home fire safety, what are some
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of the common things steps that that families
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miss that they miss uh -huh um besides the besides
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the smoke detector um obviously that's probably
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the biggest one um it's an early indication of
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fire in your home or at least smoke in your home
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that could lead to fire um the second biggest
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step that most people probably miss is having
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a safe place outside so that everyone can meet
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up yeah and uh gather and be safe when we arrive
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because most of the time they try to go back
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in and look for people which is a complete no
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-no big no -no don't do that get yourself outside
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because obviously if we get there we can't make
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the situation better if we're looking for you
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as opposed to somebody you were looking for so
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having to meet in a place outside is really crucial
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other than that make sure that your children
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know a pathway, a secondary method to getting
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out of the house, whether it be a window because
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a broken leg is easier to fix than having to
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put gold firmies together for people's T -shirts
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and stuff like that. So get outside the house
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the best way you can. I think that's extremely
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important. So this may be off topic, but looking
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at you, I just have to ask. So, you know, we
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were raised, or at least I'll speak for myself,
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I was raised with that. That view of the fireman
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coming to get the cat out the tree. Is that something
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you all do? In 23 years, I have never pulled
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a cat from a tree. No, no, no. I didn't ask if
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you pulled one. I said, is that something you
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all do? It could possibly very well be something
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that has been done before. But me personally,
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I have never done that. I'm sure that... The
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opportunity has risen somewhere, but it's never
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risen for me. It's never risen for you. No. I've
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done lots of different things, a whole lot of
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different types of animals and baby raccoons
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and ducks and stuff like that, but never a cat
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in a tree. Don't! Yeah, that's not something
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I aspire to do. I don't even like cats. Right,
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right. I'm a dog person, thank you. Shout out
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to Bruce. Bruce, Bruce. So... So let's talk about
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having a plan. So besides, you know, the get
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out, like what should families do? Should they
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practice? Should they write the plan out? Tell
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us like the very beginnings of, say I have a
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new family. We moved into a house, an apartment.
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How should I prepare my family? I think it's
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important to have everything written down. Anything
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that you want to have success at, you write it
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down. Actually writing it down and then enacting
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it, putting it into motion, practicing it always
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makes it better, especially with young children.
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They learn by doing. So having a place outside
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where you set up and actually have your family
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meet is key. And practicing and forcing it is
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also very key in that. Gotcha. Well, that is
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going to get us to our break. We are talking
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and we are here with... Terrence Gatewood with
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the Lexington Fire Department, who is a lieutenant.
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Thank you. And what we want to... Respect on
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my name. What I want to talk about is... Okay,
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I remember when I was in school and they told
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me to stop, drop, and roll. Let's talk about
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stop, drop, and roll. How can a parent teach
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their kid how to just the proper things to do
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when, say, if the child notices a fire, how should
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a parent teach their kids? And what should a
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parent teach their kids? It's a physical thing.
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I've given the example that sometimes when kids
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are around, like. Certain things like fireworks,
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campfires, they don't even know that, say, their
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shorts have caught on fire. So the biggest thing
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you can do is to teach your child to stop, drop,
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and roll is tickle them. It gives them the impression
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of getting on the ground, rolling around. And
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if you're saying something like tickle yourself,
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they'll mimic that operation. So they'll be on
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the ground rolling around and stuff. You know,
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you can actually go up and tickle your child
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yourself. And it teaches them at a very young
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age, that's essentially what we want you to do
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because it smothers a fire. It reduces all the
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oxygen inside of a fire so it goes out. So you
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all also do more than just fire, is that correct?
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We do everything. I understand that you all have
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multiple training. Yes, hazmat rescue, air rescue,
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water rescue, swift water rescue, large animal
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rescue. We do EMS. We're paramedics. We do paramedicine.
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We have outreach programs for paramedicine for
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repeat subjects or repeat callers. We're accredited.
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We teach ourselves. Everything that we learn
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is actually learned at our training academy.
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So we actually get college credit for that as
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well. So it's not just fighting fire, is it?
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No, no, no. If you're looking like as far as
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a landscape of fire, like we are. literally top
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1 % across the country. We're very aggressive.
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We do a lot of things on our own. Until it happens,
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you don't even think, who would you really call?
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I remember the girl in Louisville on the bridge
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when her truck went over. Who do you call? You
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call the cops, but you got to call the fire department,
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right? Absolutely. It's something that we train
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on. We train a lot on just those types of scenarios,
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whether it be hanging off a big blue building
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or hanging off a crane in the middle of nowhere.
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It doesn't matter. They're very eager to do those
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types of things. And I say they because I'm not
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one of those guys. I don't trust ropes. I will.
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No doubt. You also put car seats in. Oh, yeah.
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That's what it was. That's what it was. It's
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his favorite thing to do, right? I mean, yeah,
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sure, we do it. Cam, did I tell you? But there
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are qualifications you have to have. Really?
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Yeah. So everybody can't do it. We have people
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that are trained to do it. But, you know, we
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try and help the community the best we can. Cam,
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I bought a car seat for my bonus baby. Uh -huh.
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I pulled up to his department because I didn't
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know how to put that in. Of course. Who does?
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I don't know. I mean, correctly. You know what
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I'm saying? I can put it in and it'd be wobbling.
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I'd be like, that don't look right. You turn
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the corner, the kid's sliding. That has happened
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before. Right. Yes, it has. I went right to the
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fire department. It's not a good look. Yeah,
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it's not. It's not a good look. Yeah. So I know
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that you all have. Can I say programming for
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schools and possibly kiddos to learn? What's
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some of the programming that you teach children,
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but also how could, say, a school get in contact
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with you, or who would they contact? As far as
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programming, we do mostly our community service
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department actually does the reach out for things
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like this and other programs where we actually
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go to schools and actually teach children about.
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Fire safety and things like that. But as far
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as schools themselves, I believe there's a program
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at the new, I forget what the Herald Leader's
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called now, but that academy down there. They've
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had programs at Southside before, and now they've
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just relocated those there, and they're actually
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taught by retired firefighters who actually teach
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the programs and actually get kids interested
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in going into a career in fire. Gotcha. So, you
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know, here at Head Start, we service kiddos zero
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to five and pregnant moms. What what about fire
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safety is age appropriate for that? Let's say
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the three to five age range. Three to five. I
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mean, again, children are adaptable to learning
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things, you know, by action, by doing the kids
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that I've experienced and with my own children
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as well. It's just. doing things with them you
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know if you teach a child how to get out of the
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house they're gonna practice it just because
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it's fun and it's fun to do and they get to run
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in and out of the house yeah you know so it's
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repetitive motion so a lot of people equate tv
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shows to what fire is like chicago fire i've
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had numerous questions like if that's that's
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what fire is like actually like no it's not like
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that at all it's completely different 100 cannot
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see you cannot breathe if you breathe I've always
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told people, imagine you're asleep in your bed,
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shut your eyes and hold your breath and get to
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your front door. That's what it's like. Take
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a breath, you're probably not going to make it.
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So imagine that, plus you have children in your
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house. Now you have to hold your breath that
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much longer, get your children, make sure they
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don't breathe, and then make it to your front
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door. It makes it dramatically harder. So having
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a plan where everybody understands what they
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need to do when they get up in the middle of
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the night, if the detector's going off. I mean,
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we know who we're talking about. Right, right.
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That's a certain demographic of people. My people.
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But either way, I'm just saying, change your
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batteries, get the early response, get out of
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the house. That's a good plan. Here's another
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thing, because you all just don't do fire. Like,
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there's certain things that you don't know until
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you find out the hard way. I will never forget
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the moment that I began. cleaning something I
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was mixing these and had the worst you know what
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I'm saying in those situations it's I mean you
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learn hard sometimes definitely growing up in
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one of our typical type of households your parents
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probably like everyone else is like things clean
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So they just throwing stuff in the bathtub. You
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know, you got Ajax in there that's been sitting
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there probably about 30 minutes seasoning. Right.
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Seasoning the tub. And then she comes in and
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dumps some bleach on top of it. You in there,
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you don't know why you lightheaded, but you are.
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Right. You can't breathe good, you know, and
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you didn't realize that she just made it a toxic
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gas. You know, it's a lethal toxic gas with no
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oxygen exposure to the room. Luckily, we lived.
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But nowadays, those things, I've watched them
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kill people. Even the fan is not quite enough
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to remove the... It's a heavy toxic glass, so
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it actually sits close to the floor. And as you're
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scrubbing the tub, you wonder why you just woke
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up with somebody standing over you and you leaned
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in the bathtub and got HX all over your shirt.
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It's not a good look. I've been there, done that.
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I've been doing this a long time. I've seen it.
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A couple times. Well, I'm going to give you a
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scenario. My grandmother, bless her heart, love
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her. She was painting the floor registers. You
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know, we had floor registers and she wanted it
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to match the walls. And she was painting that
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and she forgot that the thing was not covered
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and stepped into it. One of the most embarrassing
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moments of my life is having to call the fire
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department because my grandmother stepped in
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the heat. The heat comes up in the room. Well,
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she took off the register and wanted to paint
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it. Yeah, the vent. To paint the face of it so
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it matched the walls. Well, she fell through
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and we're downstairs. She didn't fall through,
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but her leg fell through. And we're looking up
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and all we see is this leg, stocking, pantyhose
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all ripped up. And we couldn't get her up and
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had to call the fire department. most embarrassing
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moment in my life. I mean, people don't usually
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call us on their greatest days. Yeah. How about
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that? Even, you know, they're probably their
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worst day or their most embarrassing. I've seen
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a lot of embarrassing days for people. So, I
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mean, it's part of the job. It's the reason why
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we have a job. How often would you tell parents,
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hey, practice this with your child? I'd say,
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I mean, Again, muscle memory being a big tool
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with children that age, you can practice it a
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couple of times a year. Just, you know, have
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a whistle in your house and just blow the whistle
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and see what happens. You know, it's just a drill.
26:20
It's like any other drill you do at school. I
26:22
mean, who told you to stop at a red light and
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to go with a green one? I mean, you realize that
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certain things mean certain things. So if you
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hear a ding going off in your house from a smoke
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detector. It should be muscle memory that it's
26:35
time to get out. Gotcha. And so most people can
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actually fake that because, again, theirs probably
26:40
just went off right now and they didn't realize
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it went off because they didn't change the battery.
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Do they still do drills in school? Absolutely.
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At least in Head Start, we do drills monthly.
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So we do fire, we do tornado and earthquake monthly.
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And then we do bus drills quarterly. Okay, I
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guess I haven't seen the, you know, head down,
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you know, under the table type thing or whatever.
27:11
I don't know if we do those things, like the
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tornado where they told you to get under your
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desk. I'm like, that wasn't going to save you
27:16
anyway, but it made you feel better, I guess.
27:18
It did make you feel better. But yeah, we incorporate,
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this is part of the safety we incorporate in
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Head Start. Get the children to that point where,
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hey, if you're practicing at school, maybe your
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child will mention it at home and then you'll
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get a routine going. I practice this with my
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bonus child. So I was like, OK, if there's a
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fire, what do you do? She said, run out the door.
27:46
I said, well, run out the door. I'm following
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you. So she ran out the door. I said, what's
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next? And she said, we call 991. And I said,
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that is not the number, but close. So then I
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practiced it again and she got the number right.
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So I think there is definitely a benefit in making
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sure that you practice with your kiddos, but
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also know the route yourself because when something
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comes up, you can practice all day long, but
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if there's a fire, you're going to panic. What
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do you think? I think that's 100 % true. I mean,
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we've had children that wind up in the backyard,
28:25
you know, when they're supposed to be out front
28:26
by a tree and parents can't find them. So then
28:29
we go from, you know, fire suppression to search.
28:33
You know, search takes precedent over everything
28:35
else. So it completely changes the way that we
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fight a fire if we know that there's somebody
28:42
in the house. Because we can't be as aggressive
28:44
as we want to be. Putting a fire out will actually...
28:47
cause it to spread sometimes and actually may
28:50
harm somebody who has stumbled into the kitchen
28:52
or is now trapped in the backyard that's fenced
28:54
in. So finding the person actually elevates the
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situation for us. Gotcha. Yeah. So being a paramedic
29:04
as well is essential. I don't usually put those
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two together, but I think I've seen even more.
29:16
ambulances in red than I have before in my life.
29:21
Yeah, everybody on our job is an EMT. Some are
29:25
paramedics, but you always have an EMT on any
29:30
fire truck. So that was one thing that makes
29:33
us different from pretty much everybody else.
29:37
So the addition of more EMTs and more EMS units
29:42
and more ambulances or buggies as we call them.
29:45
We just added a couple more and probably need
29:48
to add a few more to that because Lexington is
29:51
not shrinking at all. It's growing out of control.
29:54
So you said different than everybody. Is this
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something that is practiced here but not practiced
30:02
nationwide? There are some departments that actually
30:05
have EMT and fire together. Most have it separate.
30:09
I believe Louisville has it separate. They have
30:12
their own. ambulance services, and then firefighters
30:16
or EMTs as well. With us, you can take someone
30:21
from an ambulance and put them directly on a
30:23
fire truck and they know exactly which job and
30:25
every position to do so they can do every single
30:28
thing you can do on an ambulance, on a fire truck,
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or on any other unit because we train that way.
30:34
That's impressive. I love it. I love it. Man,
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I didn't even get to talk about frying turkeys
30:39
in the garage. No, don't do it. Don't do it.
30:43
Don't do it. Just don't. Man, help me help you.
30:47
Right, right, right. Well, we have gotten through
30:50
the 4th of July. And I'm assuming, like, maybe
30:54
Thanksgiving turkey is a big time. Or the heaters
30:59
in the house. It's the heaters. This is what
31:02
we call our busy season. You got... People that
31:06
are first -time fryers, first -time homeowners
31:09
cutting their heat on for the first time and
31:10
smelling the dust that gets on the coils and
31:13
heating up, and they think, oh, well, the smoke
31:15
in the house is on fire. Take a second, see if
31:19
you actually see smoke. You can smell dust burning
31:22
off of a heating coil or a motor inside of a
31:26
furnace, but just take a second, take a deep
31:28
breath. Don't fry your turkeys in the house,
31:30
please, or on the garage. Please take it far
31:34
away. It's never going to work out good. It's
31:37
not a good thing. Terrence, we appreciate you
31:41
being on the show. Thank you so much. This information
31:44
should be helpful to our families. Should be.
31:48
Yes. What we're going to do, we're going to change
31:51
the battery in the smoke detector. Happy Fire
31:56
Prevention Month. All right. Let's acknowledge
31:59
that. All right. You have been listening to Look
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