hey everyone

[medicff32]

Hey everyone, Im Greg from the Bloomington area. Im just a year into the fire/ems service and its the best job in the world. Thanks to MikeF2 for inviting me to this forum. I am totally intersted in meeting new people. So if anyone is from the bloomington/normal area please feel free to Email me or IM me. Im on AIM at firefighter3234, and my email is firefighter3234@netzero.com. so every ss and tc.
thanks again

[jaybird210]

Hi Greg. Welcome aboard. You will find these forums fun, interesting, and informative. Then ChiefReason will post.:p :D :D :cool:

[ChiefReason]

Glad to see you here. We are trying to increase our usership of the Illinois forums.
I work in Peoria. My son works for State Farm in Bloomington.
There are some good people here with one exception.
There are no strangers here; just friends you haven't met.
Ignore everything that Jay posts. He's just trolling for girls, anyway.
Hope to hear more from you.
CR

[jaybird210]

He's just trolling for girls, anyway.

Chicks are cool. Heh heh heh heheheheh.

[MikeF25]

Now that I have helped booost the postings in here can we get of the tardiness....um I mean being fahionably late.

[btroutm]

Sure, tardiness is one way to look at it...but I prefer the "glass is half full" approach...I'm not tardy, everyone else is just really early.

[MikeF25]

Oh, Good call!:)

[pcfdcap1]

early or late
having all of here is great:p :p

[jboczek]

Cap's a poet - did he know it?
Anyway, Hi, Greg, good to see a lot of new faces here. I think Bloomington is borderline as far as north or south is concerned. See, we have a northern delegation and a southern delegation. As far as I know, there's only about 3 Southerners on here. We'll see who you agree with more ofter & then decide where Bloomington belongs.

[jaybird210]

Cap's a poet - did he know it?

'Course he did. Just look at his feet; they're longfellows.

[medicff32]

:) thanks guys for accepting me. yeah bloomington is pretty much dead central so we will see how it goes. tc ss everyone

[80FIRE]

Welcome to our little part of the world. Nice to see a new face in the IL forums. I am about 140 miles Southwest of Bloomington. We have a lot of fun in here and help solve a lot of problems. Just watch out for the BS from a couple of the above posters. :rolleyes:

[pcfdcap1]

Now just who are you referring to
Cap's a poet - did he know it?
Anyway Greg WELCOME to our world
Did I detect a little envy in Jack's post?
I guess we could let you belong to the southern division:D :p

[VCFPD3]

Welcome Greg, like they said before make sure you wear your boots while in here it tends to get pretty deep at times. (mostly when CR gets on a roll:D :D :D )

There is a welth of knowledge here to learn from.

[trainer]

VC, instead of :D you should use :p Greg you need waders in here.Welcome abord

[ChiefReason]

And fly strips. Don't forget the fly strips.
You trying to scare the new guy off?
Who will we make fun of then?
VCFPD?
Yeah; I could dig that!
Dog pile on VCFPD!:D
CR

[lilyogi]

Hi everyone, I am new in here and wanted to say HI!
I am a Firefighter/Paramedic in a small town in Northern IL (Erie)
I have been a volunteer for 3 years now and on the volunteer amb. for 9 years. I work full time on a Paramedic Amb. (6yrs)
I am looking for a ton of info related to training. I possibly will be our depts. new training officer. Find out Sunday (27th) I have lots of ideas to make our dept. better but could use some of your ideas, good or bad. Take care everyone and look forward to hearing from most of you.

Darin
dkeith@mchsi.com

[jboczek]

Darin, tell me one thing-just what the heck is a lilyogi?
Welcome to our world here. You're sure to get a lot of ideas, not all necessarily useful but ideas just the same. When the time comes to get serious, we do that. We can get serious, can't we Jay?

[medicff32]

hey welcome to the forums
ss and tc this year

[MIKEYLIKESIT]

It is always good to see new faces in here.Welcome aboard.

[80FIRE]

Originally posted by jboczek
Darin, tell me one thing-just what the heck is a lilyogi?
I think it is a small bear. Probably related to Yogi from Jellystone Park!
I can also get serious occasionaly. Welcome to the Illinois forums Darin. Nice to see new faces show up.

[lilyogi]

80Fire is right! My father was on the fire dept for 28 years and they always called him Yogi. When I got on 2 years ago they started calling me little yogi. Thanks for the welcome

[VCFPD3]

Welcome!!!!

Maybe with some new faces you guys will take it easy on me.;) Right CR (or is it slobbers), got a new one for you on him or maybe you need to talk to trainer. He drove by and didn't stop and enjoy the fun today. Was that a grass fire or what today trainer:D :cool: :rolleyes: .

Like they said earlier lilyogi you must wear your boots at all times in here!!!!

[jaybird210]

originally posted by jboczek
We can get serious, can't we Jay?

Come on! I'm always serious! I dunno what you're talking about!

originally posted by vc
CR (or is it slobbers)

Wow. And CR feels he owes me payback. I'd say somebody else is a big spoon. Far bigger than I. (Good one, Ty!!!)

Seriously yogi, check out this thread in the general forums: New instructor needs help (http://cms.firehouse.com/forums2/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48059)
I posted a rambling diatribe about where to find free training stuff.

Also, see the thread here about Training Ossifer 101. You would have to drive a ways to attend, but I can assure you it is worth the trip.

Now, if you AND JACK don't mind, I am done being serious.:rolleyes:

[trainer]

Yes that was the call we got. So that was you that waved,couldn't tell. I was coming home from a softball game in Galva when my raido started squaking at me. Cheif, you know who, said it was under control,just had to see for myself, with him you never know. Had my 16 year old daughter with,she though it was cool when i blew the cobs out of the old P/U. wasn't that burn for training ? burning it down ain't trainin. And how did you get invited and we didn't? were the closest dept. :rolleyes: Well got to go see you this afternoon.

[ChiefReason]

Good one, Ty. Or is it Merle? I get you two confused.
To everyone here: the chief to which we are referring is a total, friggin
IDIOT!
There; are you all happy now? He's the lone reason why I think that FF II should be more challenging. He passed it some years ago and has been a "firefighting legend" ever since.:D
CR

[trainer]

One point to CR.

[VCFPD3]

:o :o :o first its the sideburn comments and now the name calling.:eek: :eek:

[ChiefReason]

VCFPD3 wrote: Right CR (or is it slobbers),
I think we know who fired the first shot.
Jaybird210 wrote: (Good one, Ty!!!)
Then you were encouraged!
VCFPD3 wrote: first its the sideburn comments and now the name calling.
ChiefReason writes: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!:( :( :(
:D :D :p :p ;)
CR:cool:

[Weruj1]

Hi Greg ..........I am from Ohio ..........but have sucessfully passed the Visa application to go across 2 states to where the real firefighters and Chiefs hang out ............ welcome to your State of Illinois (latin for confusion) FH.com forum !

[Truck32]

Hello Everybody. I am new to the forums part of Firehouse.com I am a FF/EMT-B in the windy city. I look forward to the in depth discussions to follow:o :o :o :o :o

[ChiefReason]

Truck 32 wrote:the windy city
Great; another one from Hinckley.
There's a wind that blows in the city and its name is Jay!
in depth discussions
Is that like neck deep in all of the BS?
On a serious note, we in the Illinois forums take great pride in helping each other, trade stories, talk shop and have a little fun along the way.
It's great to have a new face here. Welcome on behalf of west central Illinois.
You'll be hearing from the rest of the regulars, I'm sure.
CR

[Weruj1]

ah Art ....................glad to hear you are already talking about the Ilinois rock in this forum...............210 calling two-one-zero................over

[pcfdcap1]

Truck32, Welcome from the Northwest corner where the mighty Yellow Crik, and other things:eek: , flows. I never could understand how youse guys can call us down state when u cant'g get any further upstate than here.:confused: :confused: :rolleyes:

[trainer]

Hey cap,you know everything outside Chicago is downstate:rolleyes: :D

[jaybird210]

Welcome from just outside of the East-West corridor!

Don't pay any attention to ChiefReason. He's a former chief (what does THAT alone tell you?) and now an elected politician. The worst of both worlds!:p

As far as indepth discussions, you've probably come to the wrong place for that. Every time I try to post something serious, ChiefReason butts in here and tears it all up. So I gave up on the serious stuff a long time ago.

It's much more fun this way, anyhow!:eek: :D :rolleyes:

[80FIRE]

Welcome truck from West central IL. Several miles south of CR and the rest of the gang.

Hey guys remember S@!tt runs downhill and were taking some serious runoff down here.

[pcfdcap1]

Yeah, and poor Jack has to wash it down with Milwaukee's Best. Might as well wash down sh** with more sh**:D :D Just kiddin':p Jack:D

[jboczek]

You northerners, I'm in the water supply business down here. It's a good thing your runoff probably goes into the Mississippi River. Our water comes either from the kaskaskia river or the Big Muddy river. Just stay away from the center part of the state.
Truck 32, welcome from the most southern poster on the IL forums. Stay awake when you post something here cause somebody will make the most of it. You're sure to learn something if you want to, and have some fun if you want to.
ps - you gotta watch out for all the "foreigners" who want to be from Illinois. That's cause we're the BEST and all the others are wanna bes.

[80FIRE]

Originally posted by jboczek
the Big Muddy river.

I thought that was the mississippi.....;)

[jboczek]

No, 80, the Big Muddy River is one of the main feeders for Rend Lake. Not to be confused with the Little Muddy River, which flows into the Big Muddy south of Rend Lake. The Little Muddy is about 1 mile east of DuBois and the Big Muddy is 10 miles east. Both of the rivers are pretty big after our 2 1/2" of rain last night. Our water actually comes from Rend Lake to the east and the Kaskaskia River from the west. That's the lesson for today, just so we show everybody that we do indeed learn things in this forum.
We missed the roughest weather again, went north and south. One of these days we're gonna get it.

[pcfdcap1]

I thought talking about the weather was in the springtime thread

[jboczek]

Cap, we weren't talking about weather. We were talking about runoff from the northern part of the state affecting our drinking water and how all the rain would dilute it anyway so we southerners have to drink whatever you northerners flush down the toilet. Which thread does that belong in?
How would you like to be south of us and have to put up with the leftovers from the milwaukee's best?

[pcfdcap1]

Wouldn't that be considered a HAZMAT spill?:p :p :D

[Truck32]

Thanks for all the Love !!