Any UK Police, Firefighter or Paramedic out there?

[Muzz]

Are there any emergency service workers on the forum. I hope so. Please say hi to everyone. Maybe we can discuss stuff.

[mudhog92]

Medic in Pennsylvania here....

[Muzz]

HI Mudhog.

I am Firefighter in the uk

Looks like folk like us might be quite busy in the next wee while. Still I'm gonna to be optimistic and say we'll all be fine. Its just gonna get a bit wierd

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Originally Posted by Muzz

HI Mudhog.

I am Firefighter in the uk

Looks like folk like us might be quite busy in the next wee while. Still I'm gonna to be optimistic and say we'll all be fine. Its just gonna get a bit wierd

Are you training for any emergencies?

[mudhog92]

For the second time I saw a Federal Protective Services car with Homeland Security on the side, hmmm...interesting indeed. We have done some mass casualty bio/terror attack training with contained suits with positive pressure filtered air pupmps. Man does that stink. Can't do too much with those gloves and your can only be in suits for 20-30 minutes, then you drop from heat. Homeland security spent $10k to buy my squad suits, we had them less than 1 year, then they gave us a second set-all the hoods were broken in the first. then we had those a month and they told us the filters were not good enough, don't use them. $20k of junk. Glad I pay taxes! Other than that, no specific training for civil unrest. they have had panels for Bird Flu pandemic, said exepect us to lose 30% of our workers. But the professional I have talked to said the only way it could cross over is if it was assisted. Hmm...interesting again. These people are not conspiracy theorists, just educated.

[Antaletriangle]

One of my mates is a firefighter based in wolves.

[Newliving]

In terms of taking practical steps towards dealing with potential collapse of general infrastructure, last Wednesday I gave a talk to Newcastle-under-Lyme's Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) Sustainability Forum about Transition Towns.

I urged them to get together with other LSP Sustainability Forums in Staffordshire e.g. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Moorlands and Staffs County Council to start building sustainability throughout the sub-region.

My talk was well-received and they are going to speak to the Local Strategic Partnership board in order to progress it.

So this is making a start at building resilience in the local area in anticipation of TSHTF.