April 27th, 2002
| C.E.R.T. Training
Exercise April 27th, 2002 |
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| There were several training exercises going on this day, one of which appeared to be a search & rescue team practicing repelling. | The Ventura County Fire Department Training Facility was a LOT larger than I had thought it would be. It's actually a town complete with street names and different types of structures. |
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| Captain Mike "Supreme Commander in Training" Milkovich demonstrating how to use leavers and box cribbing to lift a heavy slab of concrete. | We had lunch at the Way Point cafe at Camarillo Airport. |
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| The small of jet fuel and tri-tip BBQ .. yummy! | Here we are working as a team to lift a cubic yard of concrete. (At 125lbs/sq ft that's 3,375lbs) |
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| My lovely wife was a victim in our training exercise. | Disaster city, USA. |
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| We noticed this vehicle sitting outside the VCFD HQ building and had to stop to take this photo. Budget cutbacks? | Here's VCSO's new Copter 8. This copter was recently first on scene of a military jet crash at the Point Mugu air show. It's well equipped, but I'll save those details for when I create a page devoted to these copters. |
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| After our CERT training we noticed that people (I think some training class) were taking turns taking short rides in Copter 6 so we stopped to take a few photos before journeying back to Simi Valley. | It's amazing how these pilots are able to land these huge aircraft so precisely. |
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| Here's copter 4, 8 and 7. In the background is the old copter 3 (or the tail from copter 3 anyway). | |
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| Copter 5 was one of my favorite Ventura copters, it's now mothballed, hanging from the rafters like a bat that will never see flight again. | Of course I couldn't get away without snapping a photo of the radio antenna's. |