Well, not everyone…but enough to hurt my life time statistics.

See, I have been in NIMS training this week. You may remember my mind numbingly boring post from last June when we had to take some classes, but baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

NIMS 300 is oodles of fun!

Actually, I am in way over my head. If you are a Life Safety kind of person (Fire/PD/EMT) then this stuff is what you live and breath. But if you are just an engineer, this stuff makes about as much sense as my handwriting.

The best part is that the class is a hands on class. That means we are in groups with our very own Incident Commander (IC) and other important Section Chiefs and what not. We have to respond to various incidents and set up organizational charts and write Incident Action Plans! Yay!

Again, if you are a Life Safety person, this is what you do for your day job. Me? Not so much.

I see the importance of this type of training, but if you were to put me in charge…well…re-read the title of the post.

I have the utmost respect for Life Safety people. They get paid jack squat and put their lives on the line all the time. After I would read each scenario, I just wanted to shut down. The amount of things to think about and deal with for each incident is staggering. I just wanted to go home, have a cold, frosty beverage and forget about everything. But these people tackle the problems and make it look easy.

If you see a Firefighter, Police Officer, EMT or any other Life Safety person, give them a hug. It’s ok, they don’t bite much.

For me? One more day of this stuff.