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Monday, November 23, 2009. And furthermore.hey.hey.Are you guys listening? When'd they put that reef there? Thanks for attending my Valdez class on boat and marina fires. I hope to see many of you in Juneau in my classes on the SwissAir 111 crash and the Exxon-Valdez Oil spill. Then check the schedule of the EMS Symposium in Anchorage for the recruitment/retention classes I'll be presenting. Dewey. At the request of the Alaska Division of Emergency Services, and the mayor of Cordova, I represented the Ci...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006. From " North Pacific Processors Cannery Fire". That’s where I had the fork lift hoist Kyle up where he cut a strip out of the ceiling so we could see into the concealed space. While Kyle was cutting the ceiling, Loyd was working the bombline and some others were using a handline trying to get streams of water into the ceiling assembly of the egg room. That was just busy work and everybody knew it. I asked “What does he want to assess? They had heard of the fire and before t...
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Dewey Whetsell Blog: Retired California State Fire Marshal Ronny J. Coleman said,
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Monday, February 02, 2009. Retired California State Fire Marshal Ronny J. Coleman said,. I will never forget my first opportunity to meet Dewey at a training conference in. Therefore, it was a pleasure and a unique honor to be able to write a forward of this book. If you complete this book without having an understanding of the passion, the commitment and the competency of this man and his peers in the great State of Alaska, I would be moderately surprised.". When'd they put that reef there? I am a 34-ye...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006. I called McAlister in. And thanked him for sending his guys over to help. He said that when they got back to. They had gone in to see him and told him that they would be glad to dive in the. Arm or the entire. If he wanted, but “Chief Whetsell can take that. And shove it up his ass.”. But, he continued to explain that they (the. The body of the other son was never recovered. During that operation, I lost a mask, one fin, and ten pounds. But Fred Brady gained a splint. I am ...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006. From "Chugach Cannery Fires". Truck Company crew was crawling around the dock, planning how to cut it in two, firefighters from both engine companies who were not already committed were sent under the dock. Lt Mark Kirko placed the guys under the dock where they stood waist to chest deep in the water and used the handlines supplied by the portable pumps to fight the creosote-pylon fire and hold it back from crawling up to under our feet. When'd they put that reef there?
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006. One morning, I was with ADES, watching in awe as Pete Wuerple spun in circles in the middle of the room, barking out orders. Resources were arriving from across the nation and around the world:. On Northern Air Cargo aircraft, and caravans of ATCO trailers coming into. The place was a frenzy of activity. Then some little guy walked in and spoke loudly, everyone stopped and turned to him. 8220;I’m ordering all acquisitions to stop.”. You could hear a pin drop. He recovered o...
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Dewey Whetsell Blog: Search and Rescue Operations
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Search and Rescue Operations. After about 10 years of performing Search and Rescue (SAR) operations for the troopers, a visiting trooper stopped by the station and referred to CVFD as "SAR Central". I thought that was cool. We gathered up some dewatering pumps from the harbormaster, some survival suits from the fishermen’s union, a couple of 2-man CO2 inflatable life rafts that can be deployed from an aircraft and flew them out to the sinking boat. Whether over open-water, or b...
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Thursday, September 14, 2006. From "Ryan Air Crash". Even if your disaster plan is flawless, a glitch in the plan of a related service could bottle-neck yours:. It was after dark in November 1987 when the fully loaded Ryan Air twin engine Beechcraft 1900, landing at Homer, Alaska, plowed through a hurricane fence, hit the ground 600 feet short and 250 feet left of the runway. The plane looked in tact as it sat on the snow and frozen ground. Chief Robert Purcell and his. Only 7 were alive at that time.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006. From “Rescue on. We were throwing our packs of medical gear and mustang suits in the corner when a couple of local EMTs and the town's physician’s assistant (the town has no doctor) came into the lounge and spoke with us. They gave us some antibiotics and betadine solution. Andy took the antibiotics while I found a waste basket, inserted a new plastic trash bag, filled it with warm water and betadine, and placed Andy's feet in it (they were badly blistered). Incidentally, Di...
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Dewey Whetsell Blog: OTHER REMARKS
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Friday, January 30, 2009. David L. Tyler, Alaska State Fire Marshal. In writing 'Fire and Ice: Tales from an Alaskan Volunteer Fire Chief' Chief Whetsell has. Done an incredible job of combining experience, wisdom and wit. It doesn't matter if you are a firefighter or Fire Chief, ditch digger or Executive VP of a major corporation, the insights in this book will help you to be better at whatever you do, especially if you already know everything.". Oil Company Executive Mike Williams. Whetsell's contribut...