Justin Sims

Responsible for:

• Supervising Fire Fighters at a station level as well as the fire grounds.
• Mitigating Incidents/ Incident command
• Employing strategies and tactics on incidents
• Operating Fire Department related equipment such as: engines, hose lines, radios, chainsaws, handtools
• Ensuring Fire Fighter safety and the safety of the public & natural resources
• Maintaining safety while working on scene of: medical aids, traffic accidents, vehicle fires, structure fires, wildland fires, hazmat incidents and technical rescues.
• Facilitating station operations, personnel needs and financial accountability for station projects and budgets.
• report writing, time records, scheduling, month ends, equipment checks and general maintenance, pre-plans, building inspections, public relations, fire prevention and training.
• Station administrative duties such as maintaining medical supply budgets, supplying both County/ State equipment and facilities with the required medical supplies.
• Progressive discipline, maintaining station hose testing records, maintaining training records and station subsistence records.
• Proficient in the use of: ISE Link, In time, IAPS, CALFIRS, FC 33, EPAY, CAL ATERS, Smart Draw, Outlook, Excel, Crystals Reports, EPCR reports, CAD WEB, Vector solutions & Power point.
• Completed in-depth building inspections to assess safety and check compliance with codes.

• Responding to Vegetation fires as a Bull Dozer Support Unit Swamper
• Coordinating with private contractors to ensure dozer line is of appropriate size and quality
• Flagging proposed dozer lines
• Scouting ridge lines to ensure proposed dozer lines are attainable and can be completed
• Conducting burning operations while working with dozers to ensure containment lines hold
• Using Avenza maps to locate ridge lines and possible hazardous terrain features
• Coordinating with air resources to help mitigate and extinguish spot fires and flare ups while working with a dozer
• Performing general maintenance and up keep of dozers and mobile equipment
• Coordinating with incident divisions and branches to establish control and containment lines
• Having a vast knowledge of dozer operations and steep ground operations
• Scouting ingress and egress routes and roads that need to be cleared and made passable for type 3 engines
• Building and establishing contingency lines within the direction of the division or branch
• Monitoring fire conditions and behavior and communicating that with State operators and private contract operators
• Operating dozers and excavators to rehabilitate and repopulate dozer lines while being supervised by a CAL FIRE HFEO
• Operating transports and dozers during emergency situations
• Having the general knowledge of loading and unloading dozers
• Having the general knowledge to properly and safely securing the dozer to the transport trailer
• Piloting heavy equipment in and out of fire locations that are traveled by the public
• Operating Dozers while constructing fire line on portions of fires that are black while being supervised by a CAL FIRE HFEO
• Working with CAL FIRE HFEO'S during Heavy Equipment Recovery Operations

• I have served the citizens of California with unparalleled professionalism and knowledge for the past 7 fire seasons, in which time I have become proficient in: Mitigating and extinguishing Wild Land Fires, Structure Fires, Vehicle Fires, Debris Fires, Hazardous material incidents, Traffic Collisions, Medical Emergencies, and assisting the public with general needs
• Assisting engine operators with wild land fire investigations
• Assisting engine operators with vehicle fire investigations
• Assisting engine operators with structure fire investigations
• Working with Local Entities Such as USFS, Sherriff's Office, CHP, PG&E, OES Personnel, CAL TRANS
• Performing emergency medical care, resuscitation and defibrillation using an Automated External Defibrillator
• Assisting Paramedics with patient care while enroute to a base hospital
• Setting up and preparing landing zones for medical and fire helicopters
• Loaded patients into a helicopter while being over looked by a flight crew
• Rescuing victims involved in over the side rescues while utilizing Low Angle Rope Rescue Operational guidelines
• Responding to various emergencies such as medical aids, traffic collisions, hazmat incidents, low angle rescues, water rescues and fire ems stand by calls
• Rescuing people endangered by fire and other life safety incidents
• Operation of hose streams, horizontal and vertical ventilation, salvage and overhaul to extinguish and minimize property damage
• Extinguished fires using a series of firefighting tactics such as direct, parallel and indirect attack
• Operating firefighting equipment such as hoses, nozzles, ladders, hand tools, chainsaws extrication equipment, radios, portable fire pumps, drip torches, fuzees and self-contained breathing apparatus
• Working closely with Cal Fire inmate crews and CDC staff
• Extinguished fires utilizing simple and progressive wild land hose lays
• Checked and mopped up fires utilizing hot spotting and cold trailing techniques
• Constructing hand line with hand tools to contain fires
• Brushing and liming operations while utilizing a chainsaw and adhering to the policies and procedures of an A faller
• Extinguishing fires while coordinating with helicopters and working around air tankers
• Drafting from both public and private water sources including fire engines, lakes, streams, ponds, hydrants and swimming pools
• The use of Holmatro auto extrication cutters, rams and spreaders
• The use of Scott and MSA SCBA's
• The use of computers and computer programs such as CAD web, EPAY, EFC-33, Word document, EXCEL, CALFIRS, ISE LINK, CAL ATERS & IAPS
• Mobile equipment daily and monthly checks and light maintenance
• Maintenance of state facilities and repairs as needed
• Operation of state equipment including Utilities, stake sides, engines, vans and dozer transports
• Evacuation Plans, pre-plans, catastrophic prevention plans such as earth quakes, flooding, snow storms and power outages
• Understanding Pre-Plans for all neighboring battalions
• Keeping records and preparing reports including logbooks, county run reports, Pre-hospital patient care reports
• Utilizing station computers for numerous projects, also checking station schedules and sending information through the state email system
• Preparing month end reports that involve meal cost calculation, visitor meal sheets, station checks and submission of all the proper documents to headquarters
• Maintain a fire station and performing general housekeeping and cooking duties
• Conducting station projects such as framing, residing, plumbing, electrical and painting
• Conducting annual hose testing of department specific hose and hose cache's
• Staffing lookouts during red flag warnings and weather events such as lightning, knowing what indicators to look for as well as the knowledge and ability to accurately use the Osbourne Fire Finder and maps to calculate specific locations of fires
• Extensive map training and knowledge of Topography Maps, Forest Service Maps and Timber Maps
• Avenza Maps, Navigating Fire roads and Dozer line
• Dozer fire line operations such as, flagging, hand signals, radio communication, maintenance and upkeep, constructing safety zones and helispots, knowledge of equipment and steep ground operations
• Assisting with Fire Line Dozer winching operations and recovery
• Conducting LE100 inspections and re-inspections as needed
• Using the ICS system for incidents and completing the appropriate forms
• ICS 211 (Incident Check In)
• ICS 213 (General Message)
• ICS 214 (Unit Log)
• ICS 221 (Demobilization Checkout)
• IIPP 2 (Job Hazard Analysis)
• IIPP 3 (Code of Safe Practices)
• IIPP 4 (Job Safety Survey)
• IIPP 6 (Employee Training Sign-Up Sheet)
• IIPP 8 (Employee Safety Suggestion & Unsafe Practice Report)
• IIPP 11 (Physical Fitness Documentation Log)
• IIPP 12 (Quantitative Fit Test Record)
• IIPP 13 (Qualitive Fit Test Record)
• LE 38A (Fire Safety Inspection Legal Notice)
• LE 62A (Residential Burn Permit)
• LE 66A (Wild Land Fire Investigation)
• LE 66B (Structure Fire Investigation)
• LE 66C (Vehicle Fire Investigation)
• F72 (Material Requisition or Transfer)
• CALFIRE 101 (Property Certification of Location or Damage)
• AO-53 (visitor meal report)
• AO-78 (Gasoline, Diesel Fuel & Motor Oil Report)
• AO-78A (Gasoline, Diesel Fuel & Motor Oil Report in State Vehicles)
• AO-78C (Emergency Incident Fleet Card)
• AO-225 (Consolidated Posting Tag)
• AO-225A (Posting Tag)
• AO-225C (P-Card Posting Tag)
• ME-14 (Faulty Equipment Report)
• ME-15 (Report of Equipment Inspection)
• ME-101 (Daily Equipment Report)
• ME-102 (Daily Equipment Report Light Vehicle)
• Operated fire hoses, hydrants and extinguishers to eliminate fire and prevent from spreading.
• Responded to emergency medical calls to perform lifesaving procedures and other emergency medical services.

• Participated in Fuels reduction efforts in the Whitmore and Burney areas
• Working together as a crew to cut shaded fuels breaks to help the safety of communities
• Operating chainsaws, Pole saws and wood chippers to remove fuels from heavily congested fuel areas
• Using hand tools to remove and mitigated an abundance of fuels from the forest floor
• Removing ladder fuels to mitigate the possibility of a crown fire
• Working with staff members of local schools to reduce fuels in and around local schools
• Utilized hand tools to dig, grub, cut and scrape
• Burning fuels that were removed from the fuels breaks to mitigate jackpotting of fuels
• Clearing and brushing existing roads to make ingress and egress routes safe
• Flagging and prepping proposed fuel breaks
• Maintaining and recording fuels reduction logs and records and submitting them to the appropriate personnel
• Working with foresters to ensure fuels goals are being met
• Maintaining chainsaws, pole saws and hand tools needed for fuels reduction
• Coordinating with a Forester to establish VMP and fuels crew work

• Obtaining and maintaining a Class A Divers License
• Delivering products to accounts in a timely and professional manner
• Building product displays in appropriate key sales area
• Balancing paperwork
• Interacting with the Public and account owners to achieve wants and needs
• Keeping close attention to detail on product dates within accounts
• Maintaining cleanliness and upkeep of delivery trucks and vehicles
• Attending all work-related meetings and adhering to all rules, policies and ABC operating procedures'

• Supervising and Assisting Employees with safe work practices
• Ensuring production rates and quality of work projects are being achieved
• Building and Constructing Concrete forms
• Setup of Slabs, Custom Concrete Driveways, Walkways and Patios
• Cleaning of work related tools and equipment
• Reading Blue Prints and Building Plans
• Reading grade levels and setting them to specified plans
• Reading laser Levels
• Maintaining a safe and productive work environment
• Operating heavy equipment as needed, Grader, Dozer, Skid steer and backhoe
• Interacting with building inspectors to meet plan specifications and requirements

• General maintenance and upkeep of Customers motorcycles, ATV's and off road vehicles
• Tire changes and inspection
• Assembly of newly arriving motorcycle makes and models
• Light engine work and modifications
• Engine servicing such Oil changes, Filter cleanings, valve inspections, suspension services and machine maintenance
• Conducting service reports and entering them into the appropriate computer programs
• Scheduling Service appointments
• General diagnosis
• Thinking outside the box to identify problems at hand