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First things first get your name title

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and spell it . Scott Rose , R OS E

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battalion chief . Ok . And kind of tell

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me a little bit about today's operation

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right here that you got going . So the

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operation down here involved two

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streets of houses that were on fire ,

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the individuals , the occupants of

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those residences had migrated this way ,

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running away from the fire . And

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additionally , we had a small fire in a

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structure right behind us . Ok . What

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kind of injuries were we seeing on the

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scene ? We had a lot of walking wounded .

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Additionally , there was just a lot of

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kind of burn type injuries , inhalation

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from smoke . Things of how important is

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it to have these mock drills with the

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full patience with fire , everything

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going on . It means everything . So

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when you have it and you've got all the

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players involved , it gives the

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responders something to do . We can

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simulate things all day long , but you

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can only paint a picture so big in your

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mind . And the picture that I paint may

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be different than the picture you paint .

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So having everybody playing the

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multiple agencies and everything like

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that , it means the world to us , we're

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able to work out any communication

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issues we have , this is where we learn

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where we can improve . Ok . So tell me

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a little bit more how important that is

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to have that collaboration between all

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the different agencies . Clean . I mean ,

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everybody , we've got a really good

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working relationship with all of our

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outside agencies . Colleen Coppers cove

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multiple ems agencies , Acadian ems ,

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but a lot of times we don't work enough

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together . And so as things progress ,

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for instance , we just got a new radio

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system and so we need to take that

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radio system and this is a good test .

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At what point does that radio system

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end up with a failure ? And that's what

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we're trying to do is we're trying to

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push all of our systems to the limits

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to figure out where we can improve and

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what we need to do better in the future .

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So if we encountered some kind of a

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communication issue today , we're aware

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of it so we can get that fixed and then

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when we need it for a real world

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emergency , we don't run into that

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problem . It just doesn't end right

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here today . I mean , right here on

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this scene , I mean , there's more

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getting together afterwards , I guess

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going over everything so that

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collaboration has got to be a big help .

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Yes , sir . This exercise is actually

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multiple days . So there's things going

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on behind the scenes with our

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installation , operations center we've

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got an emergency command post for us

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set up at our fire station , central

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fire station . And so we channel

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everything through them and then they

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channel back through IOC and things of

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that nature . So there's a lot of

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things that are happening , not only

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out here but behind the scenes , you

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know , and they're being evaluated on

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certain things as well . So we're

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talking about communications on the

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fire ground and on the emergency

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incidents . We've also got

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communications where we may have

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problems with telephone lines , email ,

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internet access , things like that

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through our command post and our

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operations center . So yes , it is ,

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it's a very big operation , a lot is

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going on in a lot of multiple different

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places . But that's how we learn

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anything to say to the community . I

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mean , clean and everything with all

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this going on . You know , people are

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like , hey , what's going on , you know ,

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you know , I mean , I know we got the

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signs up and everything . Is there

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anything you like to say to the

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community ? We just , we appreciate the

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community's patience in allowing us to

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do this . We know that it is kind of a

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struggle and they may have to take

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different routes because we're holding

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up traffic and , you know , it's kind

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of , it just becomes ,

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I don't know what the word was , that's

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cut that out . So , but basically , you

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know , having their , their patience

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and their willingness to allow us to do

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it and understand and not get

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frustrated . That's what makes us

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better so we can serve them better

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because you might be able to , some of

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these people in the community might be

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the ones that you're saving later on .

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Exactly . And a lot of them may not

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know what's going on . So we're trying

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to post signs that says , hey , we're

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having a full scale exercise . It's

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throughout post . They may hear the big

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voice through the base intercom system

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coming on and not know what's going on .

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The Post does really well with

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communicating with all of its residents ,

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but sometimes people miss those . And

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so we just appreciate everything that

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they do for us and we're doing what we

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can to get better for them .