Day 90, 91, 92 & 93 - EMT and the Test of all Tests

Here are the last four days...

Day 90 - Brought the beginning of EMT. We started in with History of EMT. Mostly a lecture day and some power point slides. We ended the day with a Ralph workout. Different stations this time - more hose waves, a simulated heavy shovel, pushup rows, and a weighted ladder raise.

Day 91 - The 2nd day of EMT. Two chapters this time. EMT responsibilities and EMT ethics. Not much to the day. We ended the week with no PT.

Day 92 - EMT Day three....Human Anatomy. We covered a whole bunch of material in half the day. After lunch, we took our surprise Weekly Test. I say surprise, because we did NOT expect it. No biggie. We all did well.

We ended the day with 50 rep exercises. Tired, we all headed home.

Day 93 - Today was our State Haz mat tests. Unsure of what we were expected to know, one by one we were all escorted outside for our practical. Once there, we were told our scenario. I recited my steps word for word. I then had to pick up a charged hoseline, open it to a fog stream, and apply it to extinguisher fog. It was actually quite fun. Captain kept spraying it high and low, and I would bank it down with the fog stream. After that, we had a 5 minute dress out drill to complete out practical.

We all headed to lunch.

When we got back, we headed back downstairs for our written test. We actually had to take two tests. A haz mat awareness and a Haz Mat operations test. If you remember, we passed a practical and a written test to become Haz-mat Technician(a level higher than these tests) trained, but that's neither here nor there.

We filled out our two scantrons and began the test. It was soon evident that these tests were not going to be easy. 150 questions later, we all drug ourselves up the stairs with stunned looks on our faces. That was by far one of the toughest tests I have taken.

We ended the day with a push-up, sit-up, two mile run test. I completed 50 pushups in two minutes, 77 situps in two minutes, and a two mile run in 16 min 35 seconds. Not bad. I should have done more situps. I didn't speed up in time to complete more.

More emt tomorrow....