Oklahoma 4

Listen to Oklahoma 4, a 34-year-old man from Wyandotte, Oklahoma, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 34

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1966

PLACE OF BIRTH: Wyandotte, Oklahoma

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: fire department chief

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Shawn Muller

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/07/2000

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

[Recording 4A contains a reading of “The Rainbow Passage.” This is a transcription of recording 4B].  An early childhood memory. Let’s see.  Both come from the small town that I’m from.  Uh, I guess, probably, uh, just participating in the, in the fire department activities.  Uh, both my parents were fire — volunteer firemens and, uh, probably just hanging around the fire station and, and you know, it’s always a lot of kids’ dreams to become a fireman n’ stuff. Just bein’ around the trucks and the excitement of, of everything.  It was probably one of the things that really stick out in my mind.  Oh, there’s been several them.  Uh, we — we’ve had a, uh, several wild, what we call wildland fires that were—were very scary at times, uh, and, uh, we’ve also had some structure fires, um that wiped out half of downtown of Seneca, Missouri, that we helped fight and that was pretty, pretty awesome fire.  Oh, there’s — it’s always with the crew I have, there’s always funny stories.  Uh, I mean, we could sit here all night and talk about funny stories with them.  Uh, I got some on there that — you just never know what they’re gonna do or when they’re gonna do it. But, uh, but most of it, we, we try to have fun but we, we have to be professional and serious about it, at the same time, so.  But, uh, there’s, uh, there’s always somethin’. I mean, people make, make up the funniest things. You know in life, you run into all different types of peoples, so, it’s pretty much … when we go out, you just never what you’re gonna find.  Um, a lot of, uh, most of firefighting training, uh, just all kinds of different classes, ev- everything from tying a rope to actually being inside a burning structure and everything between.  Uh, not only fires, but also medical-wise and stuff.  We’re either, uh, at least the first responder level or ENT and above.  Helping people, just — if you — if you’re not in it to help people, you’re, you’re in it for the wrong reasons, and it’s just the thought of being able to go and, an’ maybe save someone’s life or, you know, help from a fire destroying everything that they own, so, it’s just the thought of, uh, of helping people.  Uh, there’s, there’s different ways, uh, depending on the, the type of fire, we have what we call, um, internal attacks, which we actually go inside the house. Uh, sometimes the house is, is too dangerous to put a firefighter in, so then we have to do an exterior attack, which we basically fight it from outside the home.  Uh, there’s different trucks we use for different fires.  Uh, that’s basically about it.  Basically, water is used as a primary source. Uh, you get a petroleum fire such as gasoline or diesel or something, then, then we have to use our foams and, uh, and apply a foam to it in order to knock the fire out.  Forest fires, uh, can be — they’re very tricky really. A lot of it depends on humidity and temperatures and, and wind speed pays a big role in it.  Uh, most of it’s just getting out in it and, uh, breaking and blowing leaves and just trying to beat a path in front of the fire to stop it once it gets to that …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Katie Whalley

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/05/2008

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