Ross Bucklew

Primary duties include fire suppression, emergency medical care (paramedic), and community education. Other duties include but are not limited to rope rescue, maritime rescue and recovery, HAZMAT awareness, motor vehicle accident response, emergency management (ICS/ NIMS), preparing fire and emergency medical reports, municipal water supply inspections, and fire apparatus driver/ operator. rope rescue leads that helped engineer a new bailout safety system and developed

Pararescue Team Leader at 304th Rescue Squadron; Trains and deploys to rescue, recover, and return American or Allied forces in times of danger or extreme duress; whether shot down or isolated behind enemy lines; surrounded, engaged, wounded, or captured by the enemy.

Firefighter/ Paramedic in metropolitan system; over 500,000 residents, 390 square miles, 12 cities, and unincorporated areas in 4 counties. Integral part of TVFR's Technical Rescue Team for past 5 years; rope rescue discipline adjunct. Worked on several different apparatus'; ALS ambulance, single person rapid response vehicle (CAR), Squirt (Engine w/ 61-foot aerial), Engines, Trucks (100-foot heavy duty crane aerial), light and heavy Brush Rigs, Heavy Rescue, and large Technical Rescue tractor trailer.

Installed, maintained and repaired fixed and mobile air traffic control, weather, ground aircraft control, and warning radar systems.