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From YouTube: WPL Book Drop Podcast - Episode 15
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WPL Book Drop Podcast - Episode 15 Fire Safety Month
On the latest WPL Book Drop Podcast is Battalion Chief Bill Beck talking about Fire Safety Month, fire safety tips, and Waterloo Fire Rescue. And there is some discussion of books as well.
A
B
B
B
We
also
run
the
911
service
for
the
ambulance,
so
all
ambulance,
911,
calls
in
waterloo,
are
covered
by
waterloo
fire
rescue.
We
have
a
hazmat
team
that
is
composed
of
waterloo
fire
members
that
encompasses
a
I
believe,
it's
13
counties.
Now
in
iowa
we
have
a
technical
rescue
team
for
any
type
of
high
angle
or
trench
type
of
rescues,
and
we
also
have
several
boats.
We
have
a
gator
for
any
type
of
off-road
emergency.
A
B
A
B
Year
is
actually
the
150th
anniversary
of
it.
Some
of
the
stats
from
that
great
chicago
fire
is
that
over
300
people
died
in
it.
3.3
miles
of
the
city
were
burned
during
that
fire
over
100
000
people
were
left
homeless
and
adjusted
from
2021
inflation.
Over
4.7
billion
dollars
would
have
been
lost
just
in
property
values
alone,
nowadays
in
waterloo
and
other
larger
communities.
It's
spread
out
from
just
a
fire
prevention
week
to
all
month
and
all
month
we
really
try
to
focus
in
on
fire
safety.
A
B
Well,
the
big
ones,
obviously
are
smoke.
Detectors
save
lives,
a
majority
of
any
fatality
fires.
We
have
are
in
homes
that
don't
have
smoke
detectors.
If
you
think
you
can
wake
up
to
smoke,
you're
wrong,
you
have
to
have
that
audible,
alarm
or
a
visual
alarm
that
can
help
wake
you
up
in
case
there's
a
fire.
Some
other
things
to
keep
in
mind
is
now
that
it's
getting
to
be
colder.
If
you
have
a
wood
burning,
fireplace
or
chimney,
you
want
to
make
sure
that
it's
properly
cleaned.
B
If
you
use
space
heaters
first
off,
we
aren't
fans
of
that.
But
we
understand
it
happens,
make
sure
you
have
a
plenty
of
distance
around
there,
so
that
no
radiant
heat
can
start
any
combustibles
on
fire.
Don't
use
extension
cords
with
it
because
they
may
be
underpowered
and
they
can
actually
cause
an
electrical
issue.
B
Don't
plug
that
that
heater
into
an
outlet
that's
already
over
burdened
with
other
electrical
utilities,
and
then
one
that
really
people
forget
about
is
you've,
got
to
close
your
doors
at
nighttime,
even
with
the
the
the
smoke
alarms
sounding
having
just
a
just
a
plain,
cheap
hollow
core
door
between
you
and
the
fire
can
save
countless
lives.
I
don't
know
how
many
times
I've
gone
to
a
fire.
A
B
B
If
you
see
a
little
brother,
a
little
sister
playing
with
him,
it's
okay
to
tattle
right.
We
as
parents
always
want
to
make
sure
that
we
know
what's
going
on
and
sometimes
the
best
eyes
are
the
ones
at
the
same
level.
So
in
order
to
get
that
across
oftentimes,
we'll
have
to
give
them
that
it's
okay
to
tattle,
it's
all
right
to
tell
mom
and
dad
or
grown-up,
about
it
and
that's
what
we
want
to
have
happen.
B
Some
other
things
to
think
about
are
no
two
ways
out
of
your
home,
whether
it's
the
front
door
in
the
back
door,
which
are
the
ideal
ones
or
if
it's
through
a
window
and
then,
when
you
get
out,
make
sure
you
have
a
safety
place
that
you
can
go
to
the
tree
out
front.
The
neighbor's
house,
the
car
on
the
driveway
somewhere
that
family
knows
you're
all
together.
We
always
tell
the
kids
that
moms
and
dads
get
pretty
excitable
at
a
fire.
It's
understandable,
it's
everything
they
own,
except
for
you.
B
We
want
to
make
sure
the
moms
and
dads
and
we'll
make
sure
kids
don't
go
back
into
the
fire
once
that
happens,
oftentimes!
That's
where
we're
going
to
have
a
victim
as
they've
gone
back
in
to
try
and
save
some
physical
thing,
and
we
just
don't
care
about
those
physical
things.
At
that
point
we
have
to
care
about
each
other.
B
One
of
the
biggest
causes
is
unattended:
cooking
people
either
put
something
on
a
stove
or
in
the
oven
and
then
walk
away
and
forget
about
it
or
they'll
turn
the
oven
on
to
preheat
it
and
there's
already
been
something
in
there
that
can
start
the
fire.
Having
an
abc
fire
extinguisher
nearby
is
an
awesome
way
just
to
have
that
extra
prevention.
They
don't
put
out
every
fire.
We
have
to
know
how
to
use
it
properly,
but
with
training
we
can
really
knock
knock.
B
A
B
A
B
Sure
so
we
just
finished
up
a
week
of
fire
safety
prevention
on
kwl,
and
we
showed
a
lot
of
the
different
things
that
we
do
outside
of
just
firefighting
kind
of
like
how
we
talked
about
at
the
top.
We
respond
to
car
accidents.
We
have
technical
rescues,
a
majority
of
our
our
our
calls
are
ems
based
in
one
way
or
another,
so
being
healthy.
Making
good
choices
certainly
are
going
to
help
us
with
lowering
our
call
volume.
Our
call
volume
in
the
past
year
is,
as
you
may
imagine,
has
increased
dramatically.
A
B
B
B
I
got
hired
on
with
waterloo
fire
rescue.
I
had
no
medical
training,
so
I
became
an
emtb
as
everyone
has
to
be
with
waterloo
fire
and
then
I
went
farther
and
became
a
paramedic
once
I
was
a
paramedic,
I
became
the
medical
officer
which
is
at
the
time
somewhat
of
a
training
officer
and
a
paramedic
on
an
ambulance.
B
From
that
I
was
able
to
attain
the
rank
of
lieutenant
and
from
that
that
medical
officer
job
on
the
busiest
ambulance,
I
then
got
to
move
to
our
rescue
truck
301,
which
is
the
busiest
engine
in
town
continuing
to
learn
continuing
to
grow.
I
then
decided
I
wanted
to
try
and
become
a
battalion
chief
to
see
if,
if
I
could
do
it,
I've
always
had
kind
of
the
idea
of
I
don't
want
to
leave
any
stone
unturned.
B
I
want
to
try
everything,
so
I
was
fortunate
enough
to
to
get
promoted
off
of
that
and
I
hope,
throughout
this
entire
team,
throughout
this
entire
experience.
For
me,
I've
remained
fairly
fairly
steady.
In
that
I
want
to
learn.
I
want
to
teach-
and
I
want
to
just
enjoy
the
greatest
job
in
the
world.
B
B
With
you're
brand
new,
you
need
to
be
a
sponge.
You
need
to
learn
everything
you
can
from
everybody
good
examples
and
bad
can
teach
you
lessons
and
then
at
that
bell
curve
starts
to
reach
the
top.
You
become
that
next
generation,
where
the
the
new
sponges
are
going
to
learn
from
you,
because
you
just
did
it
you're
brand
new,
you're,
fresh
and
you've
got
to
find
out.
You've
got
to
have
those
ways
to
connect.
B
I
don't
ever
feel
like
I'm
old
at
48
years
old,
with
only,
and
I
still
feel
like
the
new
kid
some
days,
but
I
do
realize
that
we're
hiring
kids
that
are
my
kids
age
now
I
can
get
along
with
them.
I
can
teach
them.
I
can
lead
them,
they
can
listen,
but
I
don't
know
if
I'm
necessarily
a
peer
with
them
anymore.
So
it's
at
that
top
of
the
curve.
B
Those
individuals
are
the
ones
that
really
have
to
show
the
way
and
then
towards
the
bottom
of
the
curve
is
you're.
Looked
upon.
You
still
have
to
learn.
Obviously,
but
you're
looked
upon
as
that,
that's
the
person-
that's
been
there,
that's
the
person,
that's
done
it!
That's
the
person
that
we
can
learn
from.
A
B
B
B
So
I
moved
over
to
the
a
to
a
shift
and
I
got
a
chance
to
basically
go
back
a
little
bit
in
time.
So
I've
been
a
lieutenant
on
c
shift
for
seven
years
and
I
got
to
go
to
a
shift
and
I
got
to
just
be
a
firefighter
and
I
got
to
ride
on
an
ambulance
again,
and
I
got
to
go
to
all
the
different
stations
to
ride
with
all
the
different
personnel
to
get
to
know
them,
and
I
think
that
really
helped.
B
Then,
when
I
got
a
chance
to
become
the
battalion
chiefs,
then
to
we
we
came
off
running.
I
had
a
good
idea
where
they
were
at.
They
had
a
good
idea
where
I
was
at
and
then
I
kind
of
got
the
nickname
of
being
a
black
cloud.
When
I
first
came
on
as
a
battalion
chief,
we
had
some
some
pretty
tremendous
fires.
B
A
B
Yeah,
I
would
say
I
would
say
just
the
training
is:
what
is
such
an
important
aspect
to
it.
I've
had
some
some
very
serious,
fairly
serious
calls
on
when
I
was
on
the
ambulance
involving
kids.
No
one
likes
kid
calls,
especially
as
a
parent
to
not
go
into
too
many
details
on.
It
was
a
little
boy
that
was
struck
by
a
car
on
his
bicycle.
B
I
at
the
time
my
middle
son
was
just
about
that
age
so
to
to
render
aid
to
get
him
the
hospital
to
do
all
all
we
need
to
to
get
them
to
definitive
care
was
flawless,
but
then,
as
a
person
cleans
up
the
ambulance
afterwards,
that's
when
you
start
to
dwell
on
holy
smokes
that
could
have
been
my
son
that
could
have
been.
That
was
somebody's
son.
It
does
hit
you
a
little
bit,
but
typically
it's
always
afterwards
and
we
have
a
great
support
group
right.
So
we
train
to
talk
to
each
other.
A
The
book
that
I
brought
today
is
ray
bradbury's,
fahrenheit
4-5-1.
You
may
be
familiar
with
it.
It's
kind
of
a
very
important
book,
so
it's
a
dystopian
type
of
world
where
the
authoritarians
rule
and
books
are
outlawed.
Anything
of
like
the
intellectual
nature.
They
don't
want
those
ideas
to
spread,
so
they
have
firemen
that
go
in
and
start
fires.
So
I
thought
this
would
be
a
perfect
book
to
talk
about,
and
actually
the
writer
wrote
this
in
a
library
which
I
find
really
fascinating.
A
B
A
B
B
B
A
Absolutely
and
you
can
see
some
of
the
parallels
like
in
some
societies
where
you've
got
governments
cracking
down
on
internet
sites
or
you
can't
visit
these
apps
or
use
them
that
kind
of
thing.
So
in
the
book
the
firefighter
has
kind
of
a
or
fire
man
has
a
crisis
of
conscience.
When
he's
like.
Oh,
maybe
maybe
we
shouldn't
be
doing
this
so
yeah.
That's
a
really
great
one.
Yeah.
B
B
I
don't
think
I'm
too
odd
in
being
a
firefighter
that
read
firefighters,
books
to
as
kids
as
they
grew
up,
and
I
don't
think
I'm
too
odd
in
that
my
wife
probably
got
kind
of
funned
out
of
every
time.
I
I'd
read
them
like
man.
This
is
so
inaccurate.
This
is
terrible,
the
big
one
I
always
get.
Is
they
go
to
a
fire?
They
come
back,
they
go
eat
and
clean
up,
and
then
they
go
and
put
the
truck
all
back
together.
I'm
like.
B
Right,
you
can't
do
it
that
way.
You
have
to
put
the
truck
back
together
and
you
have
to
put
the
truck
back
together
for
two
reasons
and
the
first
one's
obvious.
Well,
we
have
to
have
the
truck
back
together
because
in
case
we
have
the
next
call.
It
has
to
be
ready
to
go
for
whatever
we
have
whatever
emergency
we
have,
but
the
second
one
is
is
always
a
fun
history
fact
in
that
we
didn't
used
to
have
fire
trucks.
B
A
B
We
used
to
have
horses
absolutely
and
boy.
I
can't
think
off
the
top
of
my
head,
our
first
chief,
if
you
ever
follow
the
facebook
page
for
waterloo
fire
rescue,
there's
been
some
pictures
of
ashley
on
there
awesome
mustache
that
I'm
totally
jealous
of
that
kind
of
twirls
like
a
bad
guy,
but
he's
all
all
accounts
a
really
good
guy.
He
was
the
first
professional
chief
that
we
had.
We
were.
B
B
A
waterloo
fire
department.
We
were
horse
driven
horse
drawn
then
right
next
to
the
old
library,
where
I
believe,
there's
a
law
office.
Now,
since
the
original
station,
the
origin,
the
first
permanent
original
station
won
and
that
had
horses
that
came
through,
we
also
had
a
station
two
that
was
on
the
west
side
of
the
river
on
commercial
street.
That
had
horses,
I
want
to
say,
dunbar
had
the
first
fire
car,
but
we
we
for
a
while
there.
A
B
Was
also
the
reason
we
had
horses
is
the
reason
we
had
dogs,
everyone
talks
about
dalmatians
as
being
the
fire
dog,
and
I
can't
find
anywhere
that
waterloo
actually
had
dalmatians
dalmatians
are
kind
of
not
to
bash
on
dalmatians,
but
they're
kind
of
mean
dogs
and
they're
kind
of
mean
for
a
reason
right.
So
the
reason
we
had
dogs
at
the
fire
station
were
that
the
dogs
would
run
alongside
the
horses
and
they
would
keep
back
any
dogs
that
may
run
out
and
try
to
spook
the
horses.
A
B
B
He
also
discusses
a
little
bit
of
that
moral
obligation
that
we
talked
about
earlier
with
bradbury's
book
of
you
know
he
gets
pressure
from
his
mother
and
he
gets
pressure
from
his
wife.
Why?
Why
do
you
continue
to
work
it?
Because
the
south
bronx
back
in
that
time
was
the
busiest
busiest
fire
station
in
new
york?
That's
saying
something:
it
was
very
poor.
They
had
a
lot
of
false
alarms.
They
had
a
lot
of
arsons,
they
had
a
lot
of
deaths.
B
It
was
a
very,
very
difficult
station
to
live
to
live
in
and
he
has
that
moral
obligation
of
everybody
deserves
the
best
when
it
comes
to
firefighting
and
he
he
wanted
to
be
that
guy
that
didn't
give
up,
and
he
wanted
to
be
that
guy
that
continued
on
at
that
station,
and
it's
just
for
a
for
a
history
buff
like
me
and
a
firefighter
like
me,
it's
a
great
book.
I
think
any
though
I
think
anyone
would
like
it.