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Becca
02-24-2000, 06:08 PM
If you are a volunteer FF/First Responder and carry your own equipment in your POV, do you carry a First Responder kit and if so what do you have in it?

I live about 6 miles from our dept and in the summer time most of our calls are with in 1 mile of my house. I have my equipment in my POV and carry a basic kit. I am looking to add to it.

Becca
Mt Rainier

NRFR/explorer
02-24-2000, 08:42 PM
Dear Becca,
As a NRFirst Responder/explorer, I have a bag I keep in my car. It contains gauze (4 sizes), roller bandage, band-aids, ace bandages, ice packs, hot packs, samsplint, newspapers for splinting, triangular bandages, cravats, ammonia inhalents, sting swabs, first-aid cream, med. tape, aspirin, suction bulb, emergency blanket, oral/nasal airways, sterile water, biohazard bags, BVM, CPR mask, latex and nitrile gloves, gown, stethescope/BPCuff, state medical reports, flashlight, leatherman, knife, germ-killer, protective glasses, window punch, shears, penlight, scissors, and tweezers. Since being an explorer on my FD, I also have a fire extinguisher, orange cones, and flares in my car. I am also looking into gettin a "first responder" oxygen tank.
Joe, 16
NRFR, 2 luet. explorer
KFD, MFD, Roger's Rangers-EMS