Firehouse Expo!

So we had our "open house" this past sunday. This event is basically for us to set up about 6 different stations and let the community come in and see that we are kind people and we do know what we are doing haha. My station was the rope rescue station so myself and another were demonstrating to the people how to ascend a rope and then switch midway and rappell down.

Towards the end I also demonstrated how to do a "pick off". A pick off is nessasary when someone is stuck whether it be from climbing or what not but basically they are stuck hanging on their rope. We as rescuers come in from either below or above and through a series of events end up with the stranded person hanging from our harness then we rappell down with them.

All in all the event was fun. It wasnt as big of a turn out as we would like but that was alright. We also had the upstairs smoked out and we were letting people crawl through it with all of our gear on so that was pretty cool for some of the townspeople. Other than that same old stuff, As of today i have 1 month left on the ice, from here I will be going to new zealand where I plan on renting a car with my friend and driving down to queenstown. Then I will be stopping in Hawaii and meeting up with my parents and Jill so that will be pretty exciting.