GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep. 191 | SAN FRANCISCO FD BATTALION CHIEF ANTHONY SMERDEL

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep. 191
Be sure and join us on our YouTube channel with our special guest 33 Year Veteran of the San Francisco F.D., Battalion Chief Anthony Smerdel. Hired by the SFFD in 1979, He was a member of the Heavy Rescue Squad 2 from 1985 - 2008, (As a Captain, Lieutenant, and Fireman). Was promoted to Battalion Chief in June 2008 and Retired in December 2012. He responded to the Marlow Hotel (where he became trapped and rescued), El Capetian Hotel Fire, 395 Capp St. Fire , and Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. Since retiring, he is a Partner with Northern California Rescue Training (NCRT). A company with five other firemen to provide technical rescue training for fire departments, USAR teams, private industry, community colleges and the US Marine Corp. We will get the whole skinny... You don’t want to miss this one. Join us at the kitchen table on the BEST FIREFIGHTER PODCAST ON THE INTERNET. You can also Listen to our podcast ...we are on all the players #lovethisjob #GiveBackMoreThanYouTake #Oldschool

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0:00.0	disclaimer we'd like to note before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's get and salty experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:38.0	Hello!
0:42.3	Hello!
0:44.8	Darren Van Eck!
0:47.1	I'd shablin him out, Roof.
0:49.1	He said good morning, so I'm like, where the fuck is this guy from?
0:52.0	Darren Van Eck.
0:53.0	It's good morning.
0:54.8	Welcome back. Get Salt the Experience Eck. It's good morning. Welcome back.
0:56.4	Get and Saut the Experience podcast.
0:58.1	The one that brings the firehouse, gets your table to you, even Ruffy with a flashlight,
1:02.2	because he has no power.
1:03.5	But that's the kind of guy he is, bro.
1:04.8	He's dedicated.
1:08.0	He's his dedicated guy. He's got his phone and the flashlight and the light is just shining
1:12.9	on those drapes. It makes them look even more beautiful. I got to say. At a week, no, every, dude,
1:18.5	every, bro, God's every morning I call me, it picks up the phone. I'm like, I'm just glad you picked up
1:24.1	today. I don't want today to be a little buddy. Thank you. Little today. Steve, we got a little buddy.
1:27.9	Thank you,
1:28.2	not a little buddy.
1:28.8	Welcome back to the greatest
1:32.1	podcast ever.
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