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NATIONAL FIRST RESPONDERS DAY - Reg Beliveau Jr - Asst. State Fire Marshal – 802 Fire Safe program · Aired Out

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Speaker 2: high on Thursday. And that's Halloween. Yeah, Friday, Friday Halloween
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Speaker 2: Man hanging on, I hope the Blue Jays can get
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Speaker 2: it done. As I said, this morning is a very
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Speaker 2: special day. It was in twenty nineteen, just a couple
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Speaker 2: of years ago, that the United States passed a resolution
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Speaker 2: designing October twenty eighth as National First Responders Day to
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Speaker 2: honor the men and the women who put their lives
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Speaker 2: on the line and are there for us no matter
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Speaker 2: when we need them. Twenty four to seven with us
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Speaker 2: this morning is our Assistant State Fire Marshal Rege. And
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Speaker 2: I want to make sure I say this right. Reg
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Speaker 2: Is it Bellevue?
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Speaker 1: That's good?
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Speaker 2: Is that good? That works? Do others screw up your
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Speaker 2: last name?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, kind of It's it's French.
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Speaker 2: It's belle Vaux, the vision. Oh, I got it right
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Speaker 2: on the second time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But everybody calls you, Reggie. Yes, how are you man?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Thanks for the invite.
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Speaker 2: It's an absolute pleasure to not only meet you this morning,
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Speaker 2: but also have you share a microphone with me. Listen
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Speaker 2: I said to you just a few minutes ago. When
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Speaker 2: Joe Waltsworth tells me I need to have somebody on
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Speaker 2: the air, I don't. I don't ask questions. He's a
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Speaker 2: great guy and a fantastic community leader here in Central Vermont.
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Speaker 2: I don't even say Barry. It's beyond well, well well
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Speaker 2: beyond Barry. And he knows what's going on, and he
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Speaker 2: knows the best people to have on the air to
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Speaker 2: talk about the most important things.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Appreciate Joe also being a good partner.
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Speaker 2: Tell me, first of all, thank you to all of
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Speaker 2: our first responders here in our state, no matter who
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Speaker 2: they are, men and women, it doesn't matter fire, police, ambulance, everything,
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Speaker 2: everyone on this first responder's day, we are all, every
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Speaker 2: single one of us, completely screwed. Without each of you.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that we love you, We rely on you
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Speaker 2: twenty four to seven, no matter what the weather's doing,
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Speaker 2: no matter what's happening. So kudos and a tip of
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Speaker 2: the hat to all of our first responders this morning,
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Speaker 2: hearing fromont and beyond wonderful to have you in here. Man.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I would love to say, let's make
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Speaker 2: this a little bit of a habit if we can.
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Speaker 2: Let's get you back in here because it's fun. Talking
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Speaker 2: about fire safety is massive. This is probably, and I've
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Speaker 2: said this to Joe before, this is probably one of
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Speaker 2: the biggest subjects that I think so many of us
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Speaker 2: are guilty myself. Included of just taking for granted, is
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Speaker 2: that we get caught up in our routine. Things are good,
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Speaker 2: we're busy, we don't we're not always thinking about stuff
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Speaker 2: like this, our fire alarms, our fire prevention stuff, whether
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Speaker 2: our home is safe, bad habit that we may or
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Speaker 2: may not have, and especially this time of year, when
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Speaker 2: things start getting chili, We're turning on space heaters, We're
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Speaker 2: cranking up the heat a little bit more. We're not
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Speaker 2: really thinking about whether or not we had our furnace
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Speaker 2: cleaned or our chimneys cleaned. We get busy, we get
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Speaker 2: caught up. Yeah, absolutely, we're thinking about hunting. We're thinking
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Speaker 2: about what we're doing for the holidays. We're thinking about
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Speaker 2: maybe doing some some installation work in our house. But
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Speaker 2: we're not really thinking about fire prevention so much. What
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Speaker 2: are we doing here in fromont to kind of combat
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Speaker 2: that a little bit?
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Speaker 1: So within the let me go and try to frame
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Speaker 1: what I actually what my job is. So I fall
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Speaker 1: under a Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire Safety
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Speaker 1: under the Fire Marshal's office, and I'm an assistant fire Marshal.
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Speaker 1: But I don't do not do inspections. I am public education.
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Speaker 1: So I go out and I, you know, do these programs,
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Speaker 1: present these programs throughout the state.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So, and you have just slept a long way
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Speaker 2: to get here this morning, and we appreciate your time
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Speaker 2: and your your dedication to this. What is the eighth
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Speaker 2: two firesafe program? This is something that I think I've
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Speaker 2: seen that logo in the past before, but I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure what.
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Speaker 1: It means, okay, so let me frame it as fire
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Speaker 1: Safe ATO two is a state program that we that
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Speaker 1: we established through a Firefighters grant that would help distribute
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Speaker 1: home fire alarms to single family homes that that require them.
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Speaker 1: Fire alarms have a ten year basically a ten year life.
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Speaker 1: After ten years, it's recommended that you get rid of
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Speaker 1: them and replace them after ten years. So the fire
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Speaker 1: Safe ATO two program is very, very similar to the
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Speaker 1: Sound the Alarm program the American Red Cross offers as well.
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Speaker 1: So we have partnered in the past in Berlin at
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Speaker 1: the Berlin Fire Department with the American Red Cross and
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Speaker 1: fire Safe ATO too in their department to distribute smoke
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Speaker 1: alarms to I believe it was fourteen fourteen homes that
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Speaker 1: weekend that we did that program last year.
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Speaker 2: To find these homes, how do you get connected with them? Okay?
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Speaker 1: So typically what happens is so one of the things
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Speaker 1: I try to do with the fire departments when I
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Speaker 1: go out and I do these presentations on community risk reduction.
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Speaker 1: So community risk reduction is a program the NFPA has
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Speaker 1: developed to basically help fire departments do a drill down
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Speaker 1: within their communities as to what are their main hitters,
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Speaker 1: their main causes of calls. Okay, so community risk reduction
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Speaker 1: is basically take your department, look at what your high
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Speaker 1: flyers are. Every call a fire department has to enter
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Speaker 1: into it's going to be nearest, but it was enfers.
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Speaker 1: It's a national database where you know, you say, okay,
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Speaker 1: we had a call at X y Z address. This
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Speaker 1: was the call, These are the trucks that responded, this
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Speaker 1: is how many personnel we're on truck, and this is
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Speaker 1: what we found back in service at X. So at
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Speaker 1: the end of the year you can take what basically
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Speaker 1: run a spreadsheet on what these calls were. Then you
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Speaker 1: can see what your high flyers are. So community risk
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Speaker 1: reduction is said, look at these and see how you
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Speaker 1: can help reduce them. So it's basically being a preemptive
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Speaker 1: rather than a reactive program within a fire department is outreach.
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Speaker 1: And the big thing I think that gets lost in
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Speaker 1: these programs is it is that community outreach. It's that
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Speaker 1: one on one sitting down with the community and just
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Speaker 1: talking with them, brainstorming, spitballing, and say what have you
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Speaker 1: got going on in your home? Do you mind if
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Speaker 1: we come in and do a visit. So your question
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Speaker 1: was how do they do that? The fire departments would
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Speaker 1: sit there and they would put out like a notification,
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Speaker 1: say hey, we want to do a home safety visit
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Speaker 1: in your single family home. And I'll go back to that.
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Speaker 1: Remind me of that, say send us an email or
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Speaker 1: call us. We'll put you on a list and we'll
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Speaker 1: do a weekend. We'll do a Saturday, and we'll come
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Speaker 1: out and do an install. So, like I said, I
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Speaker 1: did an example of Berlin. Fourteen families, fourteen homes called
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Speaker 1: and they scheduled that Saturday. So we had I think
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Speaker 1: it was like twenty five thirty volunteers the fire department
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Speaker 1: as well, along with the Red Cross, along with other
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Speaker 1: community partners. So it could have been like the Boy Scouts,
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Speaker 1: it could have been the Girl Scouts. It could have
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Speaker 1: been like the Eagles Club or the Lion's Club, or
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Speaker 1: the Masonic or whatever that you have within your community.
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Speaker 1: Everybody congregated at the fire station. We gave them a
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Speaker 1: quick training on how you do a home safety visit,
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Speaker 1: and then they all went out with their equipment, the alarms,
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Speaker 1: and they did an install. So that's how people would
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Speaker 1: do that. So within the state of Vermont, there's conflicting numbers,
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Speaker 1: but about two hundred and thirty one fire departments within
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Speaker 1: the state of Vermont. And I would say in the
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Speaker 1: past two years that my mission was to get out
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Speaker 1: and get these these programs out there, educate the fire
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Speaker 1: departments to say this is out there. We probably hit
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Speaker 1: better than a third or so of the fire departments
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Speaker 1: within the state of Vermont.
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Speaker 2: And there's many and.
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Speaker 1: Thirty one roughly fire departments within the state. And I
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell you exactly how many full time departments. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I have visited Montpellier, I've visited obviously Barry, Barry City, Burlington,
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Speaker 1: South Burlington, Colchester. I've been to Saint John's Berry fire departments.
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Speaker 1: So there are a few full time, there are a
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Speaker 1: few mixed full time on call, and then there's strictly
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Speaker 1: volunteer fire departments throughout the state of Vermont.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Man, and how many how many others assistant fire
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Speaker 2: so Marshall.
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Speaker 1: Are doing this the pub ed division. It's myself. So
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Speaker 1: I have a direct report a supervisor, Michael Greenia that
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Speaker 1: has been doing this since God War Nickers. He's been
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Speaker 1: forever in the pub ed division. So back when I
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Speaker 1: got hired two years ago as a part time employee
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Speaker 1: within the State of Vermont, my mission was to work
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Speaker 1: under Michael to go out and get these programs out
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Speaker 1: there and help fire departments one help them understand that, hey,
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Speaker 1: these programs are out there and they're not state pushed programs.
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Speaker 1: They are the two programs I mentioned, the Community Risk
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Speaker 1: Reduction and the Steps of Safety program. They are NFPA,
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Speaker 1: the National Fire Protection Association. They are NFPA driven, just
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Speaker 1: like Fire Prevention Week in the schools. Yeah right, I
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Speaker 1: mean the fire departments do an exceptional job at Fire
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Speaker 1: Prevention Week in the schools going out and doing that outreach.
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Speaker 1: I got one of the first documented fire saves within
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Speaker 1: the state of Vermont back in twenty I can't remember
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Speaker 1: what the date is now, but due to the programs
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Speaker 1: that the Swanton Village Fire Department presented in the schools,
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Speaker 1: I've done that for twenty six years and I got
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Speaker 1: the privilege of having it work. So anyway, we talked
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Speaker 1: about Fire Prevention Week, NFPA does a really good job
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Speaker 1: of that. These other two programs that we're finding out
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Speaker 1: that the Steps to Safety program that within the past
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Speaker 1: This year alone, we've had nine fire desks within the
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Speaker 1: state of Vermont and all of them have been over
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Speaker 1: the age of sixty. Within the past ten years, fifty
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Speaker 1: four percent of the fire desks within the state of
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Speaker 1: Vermont have been over the age of sixty. So what's
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Speaker 1: that telling us is that we do an exceptional job
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Speaker 1: at fire Prevention Week in the school. We're missing a demographic.
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Speaker 1: We're missing that older adults.
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Speaker 2: Wow, and you were just telling me before we went
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Speaker 2: live here this morning. Slips and trips. This is stuff
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Speaker 2: that is well documented. Yeah, slips, trips and falls. When
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Speaker 2: I went to a National Fire Protection Association, I went
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Speaker 2: to a conference boy in this case me where it
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Speaker 2: was it wasn't conquered and talking to other fire departments
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Speaker 2: throughout New England, majority of them if their EMS combination
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Speaker 2: of EMS and fire or strictly EMS, it's lifticists. You know,
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Speaker 2: older adults falling. And one of the things that for me,
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Speaker 2: it's scary to think about because my partner, her mom
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Speaker 2: is her mom is like eighty four years old, and
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Speaker 2: I worry about her falling because when an older adult
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Speaker 2: falls and they break their hip, that is that is
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Speaker 2: catastrophic for them. Sure, right, So that decreases their mobility
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Speaker 2: and that's where it.
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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, it seems like their health declines after that.
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Speaker 1: So preventing that fall is important. Thus the Steps of
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Speaker 1: Safety program that the NFPA put out there for us
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Speaker 1: to help educate fire departments. Yeah wow, yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: And combine you know mobility or general mobility with egress
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Speaker 2: and throw in you know a cooking mishap. Yes, this
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Speaker 2: is a this is a very bad combination.
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Speaker 1: They say that an average, so majority of fires within
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Speaker 1: the homes start in the kitchen. Okay, it is heating. Also,
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Speaker 1: smoking is a large cause, but one of the number
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Speaker 1: one causes are cooking fires in the in the home.
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Speaker 1: An average kitchen fire through the insurance companies, I've heard
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Speaker 1: seventy four thousand dollars for an average kitchen fire. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So one of the things to try to prevent cooking
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Speaker 1: fires are, you know, you have lids to the pans
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Speaker 1: or the pots that you're cooking with, you have anoven
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Speaker 1: met but also you have a fire extinguisher that's nearby. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all of these things I've had, I've had older adults
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Speaker 1: ask me about what about the fire blanket. You know,
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Speaker 1: you see this fire blanket advertised and all this other stuff.
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Speaker 1: I would argue that in my years of doing fire
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Speaker 1: education fire prevention, if you're that comfortable being that close
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Speaker 1: to a fire, why not use an extinguisher instead? Right,
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Speaker 1: because if you look at the concept, you take a blanket,
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Speaker 1: you open it up, and now you put it over
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Speaker 1: your face like this, you know, and you're walking up
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Speaker 1: to the fire. I can't see me, I'm on radio,
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Speaker 1: but anyway, you're walking up to the fire like okay.
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Speaker 2: Where is it?
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Speaker 1: Now you drop it and now you're exposed again. So
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Speaker 1: you're right up close to that fire. So a fire
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Speaker 1: blanket is not UL listed and the NFPA doesn't recognize
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Speaker 1: it as a piece of firefighting equipment. Okay, it's a suppression.
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Speaker 1: It's not a piece of firefighting equipment. A fire extinguisher
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Speaker 1: is is UL listed and is recognized as a piece
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Speaker 1: of fire fighting equipment.
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Speaker 2: What's what's the uh? What? What kind of fire extinguisher
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Speaker 2: do we need to have in the kitchen?
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Speaker 1: A b CD yeah, ABC, ABC, Yeah, So ABC is
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Speaker 1: what we call dry kem. It's a dry chemical. Is
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Speaker 1: it tastes like crap? If you get it in your mouth.
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Speaker 1: It's sodium bicarbonate and some other chemicals in there. But basically,
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Speaker 1: if you understand the fire triangle right, you need heat, oxygen,
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Speaker 1: and fuel. What it does is it smothers. It takes
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Speaker 1: away the oxygen. Okay, it makes a mess. It's a powder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 1: The way I when I teach fire extinguish your training,
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Speaker 1: Type A fire is like what makes ashes, so wood paper,
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Type B is like boiling liquids,
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Speaker 1: so oils, gasolines, cooking oil. That kind of stuff is
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Speaker 1: anything that'll boil. That's a type B fire. Type C
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Speaker 1: fires like circuits, so your toaster, your microwave, your computers,
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Speaker 1: your cell phones, that kind of stuff. Anything that's electrical is.
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Speaker 2: A type C.
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Speaker 1: ABC encompasses them all, all of those fires. They are
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Speaker 1: good to have in your home in your kitchen area
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Speaker 1: near your furnace. But understanding the size of the extinguisher
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Speaker 1: limits your firefighting capabilities. So if you have an eight
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Speaker 1: pounder or so, you know those are the regular small
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Speaker 1: ones that you see you can buy at you know,
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Speaker 1: your local hardware store, you have within five to ten
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Speaker 1: seconds of firefighting capabilities.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: So once you decide you're going to fight that fire,
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Speaker 1: you pull the pin, you aim, you squeeze, and you
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Speaker 1: sweep you one one thousand and two, one thousand and three,
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Speaker 1: one thousand and four, one thousand and five. Now you're
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Speaker 1: starting to dissipate. Six, one thousand and seven, one thousand
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Speaker 1: and eight, one thousand. You're spent. Okay, Okay, that's not
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Speaker 1: a lot of time. Okay, understanding that understanding one your
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Speaker 1: ability to fight a fire, but understanding what type of
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Speaker 1: fire you have, but hopefully knowing where your egress is
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Speaker 1: in the event of a fire.
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Speaker 2: Yeah quickly, and not just you, but your family, your
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Speaker 2: kids too. So guys like me might just say, screw it.
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to get the biggest ABC that they make,
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna buy half a thousand of them and
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Speaker 2: have one in the garage, one in the kitchen, one
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Speaker 2: in the whatever. But just best to just go with
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Speaker 2: all three. ABC.
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Speaker 1: ABC is the one to have at a home yesday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow.
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Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of businesses, computer companies and stuff.
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Speaker 1: They'll have the BC, which is the carbon dioxide, not
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Speaker 1: carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is that poisonous gas that you
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Speaker 1: have in your home that is derived from the incomplete
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Speaker 1: combustion of a carbon Okay, so from woodstoves, propane fuel oils,
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that's monoxide dioxide. Is the that
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Speaker 1: fog so to speak, that really cold stuff it comes out.
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Speaker 2: But what's the difference if we're just missing the A
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Speaker 2: is it just a little cheaper.
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Speaker 1: Now it'll do the same thing, But for paper it
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Speaker 1: comes out with such a force. The BC extinguisher, I
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Speaker 1: mean you could, you could. It's better to blanket an
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Speaker 1: A type fire and a B C. What it does,
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Speaker 1: it cools and it takes away the oxygen. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: ABC will put that powder all over it and it
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Speaker 1: blankets the fire as well as takes away the oxygen
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Speaker 1: and cools the fire.
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Speaker 2: Okay to us all three, Wow, this is amazing. So
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Speaker 2: do you with the AH two firesafe program? Kind of
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Speaker 2: a dumb question here, but are you are you relying
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Speaker 2: on the community to come to you to say, hey,
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Speaker 2: would you guys come in and do an assessment and
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Speaker 2: evaluation of my home? Or do you look at your
25:01
Speaker 2: stats and say, you know, these following people are frequent flyers,
25:07
Speaker 2: they're elderly. We should just go knock on their door
25:11
Speaker 2: and just have a quick review and see what they've
25:15
Speaker 2: got for fire prevention stuff.
25:16
Speaker 1: So my role within the state is to be a
25:19
Speaker 1: vehicle or a conduit for local fire departments. Okay, I
25:24
Speaker 1: am in no way trying to tell a fire department
25:27
Speaker 1: what they should do or what they need to do.
25:29
Speaker 1: If they have questions they have they want guidance. I
25:33
Speaker 1: don't know all the answers, but I will definitely help
25:36
Speaker 1: them get the answers that they need to help make
25:39
Speaker 1: their community safer. That's all my purposes is to be
25:42
Speaker 1: that conduit for them. So to go back to your question,
25:50
Speaker 1: could they come to me, I'd rather they go to
25:53
Speaker 1: their local fire departments and ask them about you know, hey,
25:56
Speaker 1: do you folks give away fire alarms? Right now? We
26:01
Speaker 1: do have a cash of CEO and smoke combination alarms
26:08
Speaker 1: that if they if a fire department decided that they
26:11
Speaker 1: wanted to do an AT or two program, I have
26:13
Speaker 1: a trailer or the state has a trailer that we
26:15
Speaker 1: could bring up to the fire station like that weekend
26:18
Speaker 1: we were talking about. And we have ladders, we have
26:24
Speaker 1: a toolkit, we have mirrors, we have the whole gamut.
26:28
Speaker 1: So all they have to do is show up the
26:30
Speaker 1: fire department, and the volunteers show up, and they get
26:33
Speaker 1: the alarms, and they get the equipment and go off
26:35
Speaker 1: and do their thing.
26:36
Speaker 2: Wow, you were You mentioned earlier high risk single family
26:42
Speaker 2: homes and said, don't forget that I mentioned that.
26:46
Speaker 1: So yeah, So the fire Marshal's office within a stave
26:49
Speaker 1: Vermont has no jurisdiction over single family homes. So apartment
26:53
Speaker 1: buildings we do have, in commercial buildings, all of that
26:56
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, the Fire Marshal's office has jurisdiction over them. These,
27:01
Speaker 1: all of these fire desks that we mentioned earlier were
27:04
Speaker 1: all from single family homes. Okay, So thus fire Safe
27:08
Speaker 1: aight O two program comes into play on helping our
27:13
Speaker 1: local our families be safer, right because obviously the data
27:18
Speaker 1: shows majority of the fire deaths are within single family homes.
27:23
Speaker 1: You know, So the eight O two program sixty plus yeah. Yeah,
27:27
Speaker 1: So the eight O two program is have your local
27:29
Speaker 1: fire departments go out and have a conversation a home
27:32
Speaker 1: safety visit to help make you safer. The slip trips falls,
27:38
Speaker 1: the Steps Safety program to the NFPA offul also offers
27:43
Speaker 1: is basically older adults and I've done programs at like
27:46
Speaker 1: Wake Robin. I've done a program up here for visually
27:49
Speaker 1: and hearing it paired with Joe. That was a cool.
27:52
Speaker 1: I had had a ball there. I've done Chittenham County
27:56
Speaker 1: Community Services where special needs group. I did a fire
28:03
Speaker 1: extinguisher training for that group. That was a ball. I
28:06
Speaker 1: had probably the most fun I ever had doing a
28:08
Speaker 1: fire extinguisher training program. But I've also done church groups
28:11
Speaker 1: for Steps to Safety. So those are the demographics or
28:16
Speaker 1: that's that group of individuals that you try to go
28:20
Speaker 1: out and have a conversation with, and it's it's a
28:23
Speaker 1: lot of fun because basically you start out with a
28:27
Speaker 1: quick little presentation and stuff and you have a one
28:30
Speaker 1: conversation one on one with these people and next thing
28:33
Speaker 1: you know, you're off talking about fire extinguisher training, or
28:36
Speaker 1: you're off talking about, well what about you know, what
28:39
Speaker 1: about these fire blankets? I get that question? Or what
28:42
Speaker 1: about what kind of extinguishers should I have? Or you know,
28:48
Speaker 1: I love this carpet, or what about space heaters? You know,
28:51
Speaker 1: bedshakers for the hearing impaired. It's it looks like an
28:55
Speaker 1: alarm clock, but it's a little I call it like
28:58
Speaker 1: it looks like a mouse for your laptop, and it
29:01
Speaker 1: goes underneath the pillow of your you know, in your bed,
29:05
Speaker 1: and it connects with your smoke alarm. So when your
29:07
Speaker 1: smoke alarm goes off, it will vibrate underneath your pillow
29:11
Speaker 1: and notify you that, hey, you have a fire somewhere
29:13
Speaker 1: is in the home.
29:14
Speaker 2: You just said notify, and earlier you were you were
29:18
Speaker 2: saying prevention, notification, and evacuation. Those are those are the
29:24
Speaker 2: keys right there?
29:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think we mentioned earlier that you know,
29:30
Speaker 1: back in the day, when the fire alarm went off,
29:34
Speaker 1: you had probably ten to eight minutes to get out
29:37
Speaker 1: of your home. Now it's less than two minutes, so
29:40
Speaker 1: less than two minutes, within two and a half three
29:43
Speaker 1: foot off the floor. Heat in your home, once flame
29:47
Speaker 1: gets to fire, gets to open flame, so they call
29:50
Speaker 1: it in sympathy in simpient stage where it's smoldering and
29:53
Speaker 1: it's smoking like crazy. Once it becomes open flame, within
29:57
Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes, it's over five hundred gas
30:00
Speaker 1: about a foot off the floor two feet off the floor,
30:03
Speaker 1: so it's very very quick.
30:07
Speaker 2: Why why why is that? Uh? Why are we around
30:11
Speaker 2: two minutes or less?
30:13
Speaker 1: It's it's the way furnishing. Furnishings are designed and built, carpeting,
30:19
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. You know, the molded boards, you
30:22
Speaker 1: know that you see now in the basements, you know,
30:25
Speaker 1: instead of the you know, you don't have those huge
30:27
Speaker 1: trees anymore, right because of forestry, forestry services and stuff,
30:32
Speaker 1: you know, building homes and that kind of stuff. Now
30:34
Speaker 1: you've got the molded and the glued particle boards or
30:38
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, those big beams. That's
30:40
Speaker 1: glue holding that together. So that's a flammable material.
30:48
Speaker 2: You would think that they would make it non flammable.
30:52
Speaker 1: You would think, yeah, yeah, but you got you got
30:56
Speaker 1: to build homes right.
30:57
Speaker 2: Wow. Uh. A couple of comments here. Vermont was the
31:04
Speaker 2: first state in the world to pass photo electric only
31:09
Speaker 2: smoke alarms. Yes, that's amazing. I didn't know that. There
31:13
Speaker 2: are new homes, homes that are sold apartments and have
31:18
Speaker 2: a huge impact. Are a huge difference. More to come.
31:23
Speaker 2: But we're missing a huge population, the people who still
31:27
Speaker 2: have their homes with ionized alarms or no alarms at all.
31:33
Speaker 2: How do we reach that population to get them to
31:35
Speaker 2: install photo electric alarms? And are these people that are
31:41
Speaker 2: dying in Vermont, or these are the people that are
31:44
Speaker 2: dying in Vermont, how do we educate them and protect
31:47
Speaker 2: them with the right alarms.
31:49
Speaker 1: So that is a good question, and having something like
31:52
Speaker 1: this your podcast for us to get that information out
31:56
Speaker 1: there is one of the ways that we get the
32:00
Speaker 1: get the word out there. Working with local fire departments,
32:03
Speaker 1: we've actually I've actually started partnering with EMS groups as well,
32:08
Speaker 1: not just fire departments, but EMS when they go out
32:11
Speaker 1: excuse me, when they go out and do a lift
32:14
Speaker 1: assist or they do a general good intent call to
32:18
Speaker 1: go visit somebody. A lot of EMS groups are a
32:22
Speaker 1: crossover I call them crossover where part of some of
32:25
Speaker 1: them are fire department personnel as well, or you know,
32:29
Speaker 1: so they work on a fire department, but on their
32:31
Speaker 1: days off they work for EMS, so they understand what
32:34
Speaker 1: the look for with first alarms, you know, that kind
32:39
Speaker 1: of thing. But also I can go in and do
32:41
Speaker 1: an educational program for EMS to help educate them and
32:45
Speaker 1: what to look for for alarms, placement of alarms, that
32:48
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's another way to get the word
32:50
Speaker 1: out there.
32:51
Speaker 2: Just had Jody Emerson in here yesterday from the Central
32:55
Speaker 2: Vermont Career Center, and I note that they do fire
33:00
Speaker 2: fire safety and like a fire school, their education with
33:06
Speaker 2: with youth, which is so important. And District six and
33:09
Speaker 2: eight are are teaming up with the Central from my
33:13
Speaker 2: Career Center doing some big things in the coming year,
33:15
Speaker 2: which is which is wonderful, you know. I I ask,
33:21
Speaker 2: why are they even making ionization alarms? Why?
33:27
Speaker 1: It's like it's like everything else, right, it's evolving. We
33:31
Speaker 1: understand that, uh, you know, photoelectric is better sensing. It's
33:37
Speaker 1: earlier in the incipient stage of a fire, so it's
33:39
Speaker 1: quicker notification. Right, So things progress. There's also a newer uh,
33:44
Speaker 1: there's a newer COO alarm that is coming out that
33:48
Speaker 1: measures that lower levels of CEO. I believe I'm trying
33:52
Speaker 1: to scratching some brain cell here, but a CEO alarm
33:57
Speaker 1: is designed to start alarming when it senses carbon monoxide
34:02
Speaker 1: in your home at twenty parts per million. I believe
34:04
Speaker 1: it is for longer than a fifteen minute interval. So
34:08
Speaker 1: if the alarm never reaches fifteen minutes, or if the
34:11
Speaker 1: sensing never reaches fifteen minutes in duration, but you go
34:15
Speaker 1: up to about twenty let's say it's I don't know,
34:19
Speaker 1: I let's say it's ten minutes of twenty parts per million,
34:21
Speaker 1: then it drops back down, but then it creeps back up,
34:24
Speaker 1: but it never reaches that fifteen minute time window. That
34:27
Speaker 1: alarm won't go off and notify you. But low levels,
34:30
Speaker 1: they're finding out. Low levels of constant carbon monoxide in
34:33
Speaker 1: your home helps. It causes some health effects of course,
34:37
Speaker 1: of course, so newhere alarms are coming out now they
34:41
Speaker 1: won't alarm at the lower levels, but you will have
34:45
Speaker 1: readouts of that low level of carbon monoxide, so you can,
34:50
Speaker 1: you know, you pay attention to that, and you look
34:51
Speaker 1: and say, geez, I'm always having like ten parts per
34:53
Speaker 1: million here, I have to have something checked to see
34:56
Speaker 1: why am I having these low levels.
34:58
Speaker 2: It's amazing, amazing to hear this from you, and hopefully
35:07
Speaker 2: it's thinking people that are listening, think what's in my house?
35:14
Speaker 2: What do I have? Yeah? In what rooms? Where? When's
35:18
Speaker 2: the last time I checked my patterns?
35:21
Speaker 1: Part of this too, JD is not it's not the
35:24
Speaker 1: fear factor. It's what we're trying to do is educate.
35:27
Speaker 1: So an educated population is a informed population, right, So
35:34
Speaker 1: we give them the tools, like with the fire department,
35:37
Speaker 1: we give them the tools and they help better understand
35:41
Speaker 1: how to get the information out there. And the more
35:43
Speaker 1: the public understands, and the more the public knows, the
35:45
Speaker 1: more educated they are and they can make proper choices.
35:49
Speaker 1: You know, we don't we don't want to tell a
35:54
Speaker 1: homeowner what to do. All we want to do is
35:56
Speaker 1: inform them that these are the right things they should
35:59
Speaker 1: look for.
36:02
Speaker 2: Folks listening right now, if they would like a home
36:11
Speaker 2: a free home analysis, should they contact AIGHTO two Fire
36:17
Speaker 2: Safe or should they what do they do? Or do
36:20
Speaker 2: they contact their local fire.
36:21
Speaker 1: Contact their local fire department. Go through there and then
36:24
Speaker 1: the fire departments will notify me and I can help
36:26
Speaker 1: them set up a program.
36:28
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's that simple.
36:30
Speaker 1: It's that simple. Yeah, I mean, and obviously so some
36:34
Speaker 1: fire departments within the state of Vermont. I mean, you
36:36
Speaker 1: have really small departments that have thirty calls a year.
36:39
Speaker 1: You have some departments that have thirty calls an hour. Right,
36:42
Speaker 1: So there's a wide range of fire departments out there,
36:47
Speaker 1: in a wide range of skilled fire departments and staffed
36:51
Speaker 1: fire departments. A lot of fire departments they'll rely on
36:53
Speaker 1: a mutual aid system like Grotten for example. They'll rely
36:57
Speaker 1: on their neighboring town to help them with larger fires.
37:02
Speaker 1: But they also team up for fire education as well.
37:05
Speaker 1: Swanton where I'm from, Swanton and Highgate we did a
37:08
Speaker 1: mutual aid fire prevention program in the schools once, so
37:12
Speaker 1: I partnered with Highgate and we co taught fire prevention
37:15
Speaker 1: in the school. We do a lot of that type
37:17
Speaker 1: of stuff. So you're sharing information, you're sharing ideas with
37:22
Speaker 1: local fire departments. And then now you're expanding your staff
37:26
Speaker 1: to be able to go do these home safety visits.
37:29
Speaker 1: So you're not relying on your group of fifteen or
37:31
Speaker 1: twenty firefighters. Now you're expanding that to forty potentially firefighters
37:35
Speaker 1: to go out and do a home safety visit.
37:38
Speaker 2: What do you say to our younger demographic that is
37:46
Speaker 2: maybe in high school and thinking beyond high school and
37:49
Speaker 2: thinking about getting into fire science.
37:53
Speaker 1: So you mentioned Central Vermont has a program here in
37:58
Speaker 1: the high school. I know the Saint Albans Career Center
38:02
Speaker 1: also has a firefighter program. Swanton has a cadet program
38:06
Speaker 1: where we teach firefighters that are I believe sixteen. You
38:11
Speaker 1: can come in and become a cadet firefighter. So you'll
38:15
Speaker 1: get a pager, you'll get a set of gear, you
38:17
Speaker 1: would not respond to a fire, but post the fire,
38:21
Speaker 1: they would probably have you come in and help pick
38:24
Speaker 1: up hose. You come to Monday night trainings, that kind
38:27
Speaker 1: of stuff. You educate people on your educate the younger
38:31
Speaker 1: adults on fire prevention, fire safety basically. And we've had
38:37
Speaker 1: I can tell you that we've had assistant chiefs lieutenants
38:41
Speaker 1: that came up through high school within Swanton Fire that
38:46
Speaker 1: through the cadet program. You know, once you that bug
38:50
Speaker 1: is bit you, boy, it's hard to shake it.
38:52
Speaker 2: I've heard that before.
38:54
Speaker 1: I've went thirty six years. I've retired since COVID in
38:59
Speaker 1: a middle of COVID. So my prior, my prior life
39:03
Speaker 1: I was. I used to work for IBM for twenty
39:06
Speaker 1: six years. I was a HASMAT Tech all twenty six years,
39:09
Speaker 1: so I've been has MATT Tech for plus thirty six years.
39:13
Speaker 1: I retired from the State HASMAT team. I used to
39:16
Speaker 1: be on the State has MATT. I used to be
39:18
Speaker 1: on Swanton Fire as well, thirty six years. I retired
39:22
Speaker 1: through COVID in the middle of COVID because my other
39:25
Speaker 1: career I was a Swanton village manager, so I had
39:28
Speaker 1: to manage the community and trying to figure out how
39:31
Speaker 1: do you run a community in the middle of COVID.
39:33
Speaker 1: So something had to give and I had to focus
39:36
Speaker 1: on the community. So I backed off and retired from
39:39
Speaker 1: fire department and state has.
39:40
Speaker 2: Matt But you don't check out, man, You still get
39:44
Speaker 2: shirt your nails in.
39:46
Speaker 1: I haven't figured out how to retire. This is my
39:49
Speaker 1: third career. I'm still the emergency manager emergency management director
39:53
Speaker 1: for Swanton for plus. Nineteen eighty eight is when I
39:56
Speaker 1: became Swanton's emergency management director of.
40:00
Speaker 2: Fire departments, Mont Pilier, Berlin, Perry Have. I believe those
40:05
Speaker 2: are the three I could be missing. One have teamed
40:09
Speaker 2: up recently with the Central Vermont Hospital. Yes, and Serve pro.
40:16
Speaker 2: But what's that all about?
40:17
Speaker 1: So that was part of they did. Basically, they would
40:21
Speaker 1: give out an alarm to newborn the families of a
40:25
Speaker 1: newborn before they left the Uh. You know, it's kind
40:29
Speaker 1: of like you get a car seat, you get a
40:31
Speaker 1: smoke alarm as well. Yeah, and so through our fire
40:35
Speaker 1: Safe Atal two program, we donated along with Berlin and
40:38
Speaker 1: those and Berry and mont Pilier fire departments, we donated
40:44
Speaker 1: fire alarms for Central Vermont Birthing Center. So they could
40:49
Speaker 1: give those alarms out to families.
40:51
Speaker 2: They're thinking about everything other than a fire. They're thinking
40:56
Speaker 2: about the car seat, they're thinking about the red or
41:02
Speaker 2: the blue or or whatever it is. Yeah, but they're
41:06
Speaker 2: just not thinking about fire.
41:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's.
41:12
Speaker 2: Or carbon monoxide right right.
41:14
Speaker 1: And the alarms that we handed out they were dual
41:17
Speaker 1: so CEO and smoke, so they detected both.
41:23
Speaker 2: When was that time just recently?
41:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, last week, last week, I'm trying to remember how
41:28
Speaker 1: many I think it was plus seventy alarms that were
41:31
Speaker 1: given out to the Center of Vermont Medical.
41:34
Speaker 2: Center and Surf Pro many that that that's been part of,
41:40
Speaker 2: like almost like a family tradition for them to do
41:43
Speaker 2: that with local hospitals.
41:46
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. Yeah, they well, yeah, a lot
41:49
Speaker 1: of area. I don't know what the other I think
41:50
Speaker 1: they did, Copley Yeah, also I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm
41:55
Speaker 1: not sure where else they went, but yeah, I guess
41:58
Speaker 1: the prior owner used to do that. And when the
42:02
Speaker 1: Sun took over the company, Yeah, same thing. COVID kind
42:05
Speaker 1: of slowed things down and he said, hey, we got
42:08
Speaker 1: to bring this back up, and Joe did some outreach
42:11
Speaker 1: and uh, I love love having that guy for for
42:15
Speaker 1: a partner for sure, and uh I got roped in
42:17
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I was an honor being there.
42:19
Speaker 2: That's so cool A question that that's just come in.
42:22
Speaker 2: How dangerous is living in an apartment with four times
42:26
Speaker 2: the recommended radon levels?
42:29
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's not my wheelhouse, so I can't answer that.
42:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, y'all are such an integral part of our community.
42:47
Speaker 2: What you all do, not just fighting the fires, but
42:52
Speaker 2: preventing and educating is so tremendous. You know. I was
42:57
Speaker 2: at I pulled into a fire department not long ago,
43:01
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and there was some training
43:04
Speaker 2: that was that was going on with a young man
43:09
Speaker 2: who was fully suited up and learning some techniques. And
43:15
Speaker 2: I got to I pulled in, parked, parked my truck.
43:20
Speaker 2: I was actually looking for Joe and was just observing
43:24
Speaker 2: this and I'm like, this guy is just busting his
43:31
Speaker 2: ass learning this this stuff, and this is I don't
43:38
Speaker 2: know for me not seeing this all the time. That
43:41
Speaker 2: was really cool for me. I'm like, man, that makes
43:44
Speaker 2: me feel so good.
43:46
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's so many there's so many things
43:48
Speaker 1: within that fire service career, even as a volunteer. I have,
43:55
Speaker 1: you know, thirty six years, I've seen it quite a
43:57
Speaker 1: bit of stuff. You I've gone through months of therapy
44:01
Speaker 1: after I retired from the fire service. You know, there's
44:04
Speaker 1: certain things you just can't unsee, right, And so just
44:08
Speaker 1: I'll do a sidebar really quick. I am a big
44:10
Speaker 1: proponent of mental health for our first responders. Plain and simple, Okay,
44:16
Speaker 1: there are there. You know, we need to take care
44:19
Speaker 1: of our mental health. Plane and simple, yeah, okay, and
44:22
Speaker 1: I'll leave it there. But there's so many things that
44:24
Speaker 1: we do in our life with the fire education and
44:27
Speaker 1: the fire prevention and fighting fires, that we probably won't
44:32
Speaker 1: ever see that benefit that how we've impacted someone's life
44:36
Speaker 1: in a certain way. I'll tell you a quick side
44:39
Speaker 1: story if I could so. Village manager. So, I had
44:44
Speaker 1: one of my employees come in and just happened to
44:46
Speaker 1: sit across the desk from me, and he just sat
44:49
Speaker 1: down there and I'm on a computer doing my thing,
44:51
Speaker 1: you know and stuff, and look over and it says, hey,
44:53
Speaker 1: what's up. He says, oh, you know, it was just
44:55
Speaker 1: an anniversary of his brother dying got killed in a
44:59
Speaker 1: car accident. And I says, oh, really, he said when
45:02
Speaker 1: and he told me, and I said, well, there was
45:03
Speaker 1: the location and he told me. I said, I told him.
45:07
Speaker 1: I happened to be the officer in charge of that
45:10
Speaker 1: fire call that day. The gentleman died instantly, and I
45:16
Speaker 1: told him, I said, I stayed right by his side.
45:19
Speaker 1: I had. I had a thing that I did any
45:24
Speaker 1: fatality of a car accident, I would stay by the
45:30
Speaker 1: victim until the corner showed up and the body was removed,
45:34
Speaker 1: something I always done. So anyway, he looked at me
45:38
Speaker 1: and I told him. He says, I, I never left
45:40
Speaker 1: your brother's side. I sat there, and it was an
45:42
Speaker 1: hour and a half. It was probably twenty degrees out
45:45
Speaker 1: in a crappy day, and once the corner came, you know,
45:49
Speaker 1: we removed his brother and took him away. I told
45:54
Speaker 1: him I was there, and he broke down into tears.
45:57
Speaker 1: He said, knowing you were there, my brothers is I
46:00
Speaker 1: never knew how that happened, but knowing you were there
46:04
Speaker 1: helps me put closure. So I had the privilege of
46:10
Speaker 1: knowing one thing that I have done that impacted someone's life.
46:16
Speaker 1: But we go through so many days that we don't
46:19
Speaker 1: know how we impact another person's life, either negatively, or positively.
46:24
Speaker 1: But you always should have that motivation to do the
46:29
Speaker 1: right thing, regardless of who is there seeing you.
46:33
Speaker 2: So anyway, that's powerful man. According to the CDC, and
46:41
Speaker 2: I just pulled this up, ninety seven firefighters and one
46:47
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five police officers die each year in
46:54
Speaker 2: the line of duty. This is an important time. This
47:00
Speaker 2: is a great time. It's always a good time to
47:04
Speaker 2: have someone on to talk about fire safety, fire prevention.
47:11
Speaker 2: As you said, uh, education is the key. Having having
47:18
Speaker 2: the knowledge in the education is probably the biggest proponent
47:23
Speaker 2: to fire prevention. I would love to have you on
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Speaker 2: more frequently on again. Maybe we could get Joe in here.
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Speaker 1: That'd be cool.
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Speaker 2: I'd love that. Yeah, let's you know, let's let's do that.
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Speaker 2: And and frankly, it doesn't really matter what time of year.
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Speaker 2: But you know, during these colder months, you know, we've
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Speaker 2: got venting to to think about. We have snowfall, we
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Speaker 2: have the holidays coming, holidays coming up. Yeah, there's there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on, and you guys serve
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Speaker 2: as a great reminder to me to just kind of
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Speaker 2: tap the brakes in a few other areas of life
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Speaker 2: that we're very preoccupied with and remember fire safety. I
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Speaker 2: mean it's not the most exciting subject to talk about,
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Speaker 2: but think about those smoke detectors, those fire alarms that
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Speaker 2: you have in your home, and whether or not you
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Speaker 2: have a fire extinguisher, and if so, how many and
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Speaker 2: how are they rated? And when was the last time
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Speaker 2: that you know they have a shelf life? Too, when
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Speaker 2: was the last time that they've been checked? Turn them
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Speaker 2: upside out and give them a bang with a rubber
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Speaker 2: mallet and make sure that they're ready to go. This
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Speaker 2: is great stuff, man. This is a day that is
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Speaker 2: serving as a National Day of Gratitude, National Firm Responders Day.
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Speaker 2: We pay tribute to the endless hours and sacrifice around
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Speaker 2: the clock that all first responders give to our communities.
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Speaker 2: And it's one of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
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Speaker 2: I think most of us know that we should take
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Speaker 2: a moment today pay tribute to fallen first responders as well,
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Speaker 2: and remember that if you have any questions, what's what's
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Speaker 2: the best way to learn more about A two fire
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Speaker 2: safe And and maybe too, is there a website? Is
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Speaker 2: it firesafety dot Vermont dot gov? Believe so that's what
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Speaker 2: it is. That's it right there, And I'm gonna put
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Speaker 2: that in the in the comments here. This is amazing,
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Speaker 2: rech and I hope you come back. I hope you
49:54
Speaker 2: come back soon. Let's do this again. Let's let's get
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Speaker 2: Joe in here as well, and we invite any other firefighters,
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Speaker 2: fire departments, first responders to get in here and keep
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Speaker 2: banging this drum. Good stuff, great stuff. Thanks thanks for
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Speaker 2: coming in man, appreciate you. Don't forget tomorrow Sweethearts and
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