tolk460

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by tolk460 7y ago
Firefighter/medic and wildland fire contractor. I pull in about 15% of my base tech salary doing a few hours of work a week and one wildland fire deployment per year. It's a hobby that turned into a side profession and feels great
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by tolk460 8y ago
I'll add statistics for the 2018 fire season that includes southern and northern California [1] at a combined 55,000 acres versus the northwest (WA, OR) of a similar geographic size [2] and atmospheric conditions to Northern CA at over
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by tolk460 8y ago
Im a wldland firefighter from the northern Rockies, just returned from a deployment to the Woolsey incident (LA and Ventura counties). Yes, prescribed burns are common in the off season for all fire districts. However, CalFire has some uniq
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by tolk460 8y ago
Unless the payload is a mass simulation, even cubesats and nanosats are "real" satellites. The customers for University satellites are typically USAFRL, NASA, or DARPA.
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by tolk460 8y ago
Hello, from Paradise Valley, MT! For more information on this issue with the Emigrant mine: http://greateryellowstone.org/yellowstone-gateway
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by tolk460 8y ago
I'm an SRE for a large software company. We call it an "incident retrospective" for this reason.
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by tolk460 8y ago
Also factor in most of those calls during the morning and evening, follow-up paperwork time, daily equipment checks, and station maintenance. If you cut the timeframe down to 12 hours busy window, that's 90 minutes per call. Throw a go
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by tolk460 8y ago
Article mentions the bulk of the bill was a "trauma activation". This is an alert from the EMS units to the hospital that they are bringing a patient with indications of trauma requiring additional medical resources to be diverted
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by tolk460 8y ago
Cars commonly catch on fire from electrical issues, overheating, malfunctioning or negeglected maintenance on transfer cases or transmissions. We get a car fire at least once a month. This average increases during the summer and does not