A Nice Kerfunkle Starring Nutcase nadin - Fire Reporter

[Airwolf]

I am going nuts.

I cannot see why the cousin doesn't see what a jerk she makes of herself.

I thought I've seen people with delusions about themselves before, but the cousin takes the cake, and it's a very large cake.

Hard to say when crazy is involved  Frank. She is so far off the edge she would need the USS Enterprise to get back.

[Dori]

sorry, just can't help myself 

She's just a girl, and she's on fire
 Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway
 She's living in a world, and it's on fire
 filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can find a way

This girl is on fire
 This girl is on fire
 She's walking on fire
 This girl is on fire

 Looks like a girl, but she's a flame
 So bright, she can burn your eyes
 Better look the other way
 You can try but you'll never forget her name
 She's on top of the world
 Hottest of the hottest girls say

Oh, we got our feet on the ground
 And we're burning it down
 Oh, we got our head in the clouds
 And we're not coming down

[DumbAss Tanker]

You know, the cousin's really odd.

Sir, you are a master of understatement.

[micmac]

Tanter Tantrum   

[HeavyMetal]

I have won awards from the local press club and work for the East County Magazine in San Diego, and when we went to a man down in Potrero, we did ask questions on both the atmospherics, and whether they used a 3:1 advantage or 4:1 advantage and did get that answered by a CAL-FIRE battalion
Chief

I wonder what the EMT and Firefighters' names are for nadin.  They must see her coming with the rig and all decked out for fighting a fire, knowing she's going to be asking them all kinds of pointless questions.
"Aw shit, here comes _____"

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy IronGate forgets, for a brief moment, but then nutcase nadin steps in to remind him that it's always all about nadin:

Sun Apr 13, 2014, 11:15 PM
IronGate (139 posts)
26. No rest for the weary.

Alarm #4. Walk in-Mother with 4yo in breathing distress, patient stabilized, Mercy Air dispatched, patient loaded and on the way to the Hospital, report finished.

Response to IronGate (Original post)
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 11:47 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,571 posts)
28. Sounds like an average shift

in a medium to large urban center with wildland interface.

And coincidentally I have been listening to the scanner all day. The Heartland feed on the App also has Montevista, so that is what I listen while at home. Been busy too.

Try to get some sleep... yeah right. (from experience I just nixed your night time, Sorry)

Response to IronGate (Reply #30)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:02 AM
nadinbrzezinski (132,571 posts)
32. Fair play I suppose

This is from the Chihuahua fire two years ago, taken at about 00:00 hours.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4810790

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #32)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:08 AM
IronGate (139 posts)
33. Dramatic picture.

Is that CalFire?

Response to IronGate (Reply #33)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:09 AM
nadinbrzezinski (132,571 posts)
34. Yup.

So if the brush fire gets large enough, I get to take my sorry as and gear to it.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #28)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:23 AM
dionysus (24,906 posts)
40. please don't try to build credibility on this poster's back

Response to dionysus (Reply #40)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 07:39 AM
Codeine (13,439 posts)
41. Firefighter. Historian. Journalist. Sycophant.

[Carl]

Hey DUmbasses...how does it feel to have so many blithering lunatics infect your sewer?

[Dori]

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #28)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:23 AM
dionysus (24,906 posts)
40. please don't try to build credibility on this poster's back

Iggy list..........3...2...1

[GOBUCKS]

This is gonna get better:

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #44)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:06 PM
Star Member rudolph the red (360 posts)
97. Do you get paid for your work?

East County Magazine looks like an online only cheap version of the penny saver. To call it a paper seems kind of silly.

Never mind, I read further. Its beyond silly, more like ridiculous.

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #97)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:23 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,596 posts)
98. Yes, I get paid for my work, freelance rates and everything, I know shocking.

and the paper has won over 70 awards locally, for investigative work among others. Believe it or not, we do more than just the public announcements.

Hell, we cover crap none others cover, like the well behaved Grossmont Unified High School District.

I know that is a favorite attack by the character assassins locally, but think of it as a local version of truthout, but far less partisan. In fact, we are not partisan, and during the Filner non scandal (for some here it was not a scandal) we were actually called to be on the pocket of the other side within five minutes by both groups, so we are doing something right.

And we also do community service that larger media used to do, and fires in the far east county are now covered by other media because of us. They used to completely ignore them

Her freelance rate is zero, plus no reimbursement for expenses.
She bitched about Crazy Miriam refusing to even chip in on her gasoline.

[franksolich]

She bitched about Crazy Miriam refusing to even chip in on her gasoline.

It irritates me that the cousin has yet to go down to Ensenada, to uncover what's happening there.

On the map, it looks just an hour away from her; pocket change for gasoline.

The cousin's one of the typical liberal tightwads though; if someone else isn't paying her way, she won't go.

The cousin, along with the big guy in Bellevue, and drunken Bill, doesn't understand something; to get ahead in life, one must first invest one's own resources, after which others are more willing to help.

In fact, I credit that to my own successes, such as they are, in life--I put some bucks, and some time and effort, into something, and inevitably others, who like what they see, step up to help along.

But one has to first invest one's own resources. 

[GOBUCKS]

Enjoy a rapid-fire exchange between the nutcase and a new bully:

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #98)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:32 PM
Star Member rudolph the red (366 posts)
99. It's not a paper, it is an online only. And to call it non partisan is nonsense.

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #99)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:33 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,606 posts)
100. You have no idea what the media environment is like, do you?

Yes, it is a paper and no it is not partisan.
have an excellent day.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #100)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:35 PM
Star Member rudolph the red (366 posts)
101. I'm media too

I post at DU.

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #101)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:40 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,606 posts)
103. Yuo are a bloger, call me next time you are at ot zero hundred

at a fire line talking to fire officials about mandatory evacs, animal shelters, people shelters, and all that shit before going behind fire lines. Of course calling the boss so that can be updated as well, as in breaking news. And then going behind lines to get those shots m'kay.

Or next time you go to a wonderful meeting of your local school board.

Bloggers do not do that, the former they simply do not. You know why? You are not credentialed media.

The latter some bloggers do, but they are rare as can be. Or for that matter next time you go and cover multiple fire boards while the county tries to create the San Diego County Fire Authority. That is not what the Penny Saver does either.

Have a good day. For the record I started by blogging. But now, I get paid.

But Crazy Miriam still won't reimburse for gasoline, or even buy batteries for a voice recorder.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #100)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:36 PM
Star Member rudolph the red (366 posts)
102. where can i get the paper version?

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #102)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:45 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,606 posts)
104. You are missing it, on purpose

and I think we are done.

You said that we are not media, we are, credentialed and all.

Have an excellent day. And go join all those character assassins, good bye

I really have NO PATIENCE for this shit. NONE.

nadin has a press pass, and Nomex, and a knife (and peanut butter packets) in her boot, and a Good Rig, and everything.

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #102)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 06:46 PM
Star Member rudolph the red (366 posts)
105. It doesn't exist

Makes you a blogger too.

[Big Dog]

BainsBane (24,763 posts)
34. Please don't take that comment as representing people here in general

I have nothing but tremendous respect and admiration for firefighters and paramedics. I can't even imagine the kind of bravery and selflessness required to do a job like that.

Didn't Alex sexually objectify firefighters one drunken Saturday night in the not-too-distant past? Something about bringing out the hose to quench a fire in her loins- or something CalPiggyesque like that.

Methinks she found a live one! Reel him in, Alex!

[Karin]

nadinbrzezinski (132,606 posts)
103. Yuo are a bloger, call me next time you are at ot zero hundred

   She's getting flustered.  Got to have nerves of steel in this line of work, Nadin. 

[franksolich]

  She's getting flustered.  Got to have nerves of steel in this line of work, Nadin. 

The cousin's hopeless.

I think she should give up posting Skins's island and being a "reporter" for the East Orange News, or whatever it's called, and channel her talents in organizations that better suit her.

I suggest: Hadassah, the Junior League, Feminists for Life, the National Council of Jewish Women, B'nai B'rith, the Anti-Defamation League, Haganah, Irgun, Lehi, Yeshivat Har Etzion, "Stand With Us," Rosh Tzurim, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jewish Defense Organization, and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional.

Her problem is, on Skins's island and as a "reporter," she's out of her milieu; she needs to get where she belongs, after which she'll become a better person.

[dane]

But Crazy Miriam still won't reimburse for gasoline, or even buy batteries for a voice recorder.

I had a moment of curiosity with no cat to kill, so I went to the magazine site for which gNads reports.

Most of the various sites I rummage around in shopping on line will usually have one section for "Employment Opportunities." I did not see such a section for the award winning blog.

My guess is they don't have paid employees, but they do have a feature that enables folks to donate, kinda like 'wishadupe.'

[GOBUCKS]

You may notice that the "bullies" have now become "character assassins".

[RWKindaGuy]

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[GOBUCKS]

Nutcase nadin reminds DUmmy IronGate once again that it's all about her:

Response to IronGate (Reply #46)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:20 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,637 posts)
48. When I started in EMS it was in Mexico City

So we were trained to improvise everything. That could come very handy in a major disaster. Give me some cardboard and any cord, para cord, curtain cord or bandages will do, and I will have that arm or leg splinted in a jiffy, and a knife. You literally set the box to your patient.

Then in Tijuana I literally helped to stand up a paramedic program. I lost some folks who simply could not get on with the times. And the idea of radio and medical control, let's put it this way "Emergency 51" made a lot more sense. No, not from medical treatment, but that first episode where they are given the order to cardio convert, we had those fights. The episode where those two take a patient to a private doctors office and...I had that fight. I took a diabetic patient to the private hospital after stabilizing for low blood sugars, connected to the monitor with strip. You know the setup. The private hospital doctor was a pain and questioned why mere ambulance drivers even did any of this and our training, and legalities and ethics. I mean...the horror, we could have killed him. No doc, not giving the glucose bolus could have done that. His sugars were under measurable by glucometer on scene at arrival. We got them all the way to 75 or so. He did not have convulsions and for that I am thankful. Oh and went from not responsive to rather chatty.

So after that, watching emergency took a different feel. From the POV of a mature system it's funny as hell. From the POV of one undergoing birth pains...it is actually true to form.

As to Backdraft, we laughed our asses too, that said due to manpower issues we always took more risks than our counterparts in the US. And while they were calculated risks...they were still higher. But the BA, getting the FF to wear those was a real fight. Real men never wear them you know. I insisted on them. I like my lungs. These days they are pretty much wearing them though. But the late 1970s and 1980s were fun all over. Ask the old firefighters at the station about two major fights, universal precautions and BA wearing. I am sure somebody will want to share the good old days.

nadin is not the DUmmy you'd most like to share a beer with.

[vesta111]

You know, the cousin's really odd.

Somewhere on some thread the past few days, she commented that she was an ambulance attendant "in another country."

This secretivity is stupid; what's holding her back from admitting she was an ambulance attendant years ago in Tijuana, Mexico?  What's the big deal about keeping the where a secret? 

Frank, I am surprised since she worked in Tijuana that she has not made the claim she was the Head Nurse. [ pun intended ]

[Chris_]

You know, the cousin's really odd.

You could have stopped right there.

[Skul]

Frank, I am surprised since she worked in Tijuana that she has not made the claim she was the Head Nurse. [ pun intended ]

VESTA!!!!! 

[BlueStateSaint]

VESTA!!!!! 

Yup--she earned a H5!