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- [Ian] I am Senior Airman Ian Perroni from the

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331st civil engineering squadron, firefighter,

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at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

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- [Male Dispatcher] Standby for a medical emergency

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- [Ian] We have one minute to put all of our gear on

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and get out of the station.

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And I would say we have five minutes

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in total to get on the scene.

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We want to be fast and that's another skill that we do

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and we need to be up to date on us

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getting our gear on quick and getting out of the station.

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We're fully equipped to handle almost any situation

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whether it be hazmat, vehicle extrication,

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ice water rescue, just rescue capabilities

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and especially wildland, that's

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what we get called for the most.

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I'd say objectives are an acronym called LIP,

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life safety, incident stability and

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property conservation.

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So life safety is always first.

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Our life safety and the victims.

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So if it's a huge fire

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we're positive no one is in there,

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we're going to hit it defensively.

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If it's a small fire and we know people are in there,

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even if it's a big fire and we know people are in there,

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we're going to go in and knock it out

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and get those people out of there.

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Just having the capability to respond to

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pretty much anything that can happen on base,

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I feel, provides a huge impact, just in

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people feeling secure in their homes here on base.

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And off base, we allow the outlying community

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to know that they can rely on us.

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If something gets out of hand, a huge wild runner,

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they know they can call on us.

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