Bøger af Scott Finazzo

Do you ever get the feeling that you are stuck in a rut? Routine can sneak up and take over your life without warning or apology. Thoughts of breaking out and escaping for a while become a distraction. Doing something fun and crazy begins to engulf your daydreams. Most of those thoughts are dismissed and cast aside as quickly as they arrived. But what if, just one time, you hold on to it? You step out of your comfort zone and go after that dream. It could turn out to be a failure or it could be legendary, but you'll never know until you try. That is how it began for Scott Finazzo. Why Do All the Locals Think We're Crazy? is the true story of three firemen from the Midwest who decided to break out of their mid-life routine and take their mischievous humor and their inability to back down from a challenge to new limits. Their kindred love for tropical locations, along with an insuppressible desire to be anywhere but Kansas, led them to extend their reach beyond the borders of the continental United States. They, with a combined total of zero boat building experience, constructed their own kayaks. Then they, with a combined total of zero sea kayaking experience, planned to spend a week paddling among the picturesque U.S. and British Virgin Islands. From day one twists, turns, setbacks, and obstacles hindered any romantic notions of a cinematic triumph over the confines of mundane suburbia and personal limitations. Yet, they took the trip, risked their reputations and lives, and managed to avoid becoming a pointless maritime tragedy. Through perseverance, humor, and rum they conquered the literal and metaphorical mountains they encountered: personal conflict, delays of every kind, kayak failure, separation, a night alone on an uninhabited island, and a rescue by a yacht chartered by drunken Dutch airline pilots. Why Do All the Locals Think We're Crazy? chronicles the entire journey from idea inception through their return to the mainland. It combines adventure and humor with sprinkled in dime store philosophy that will leave you captivated, laughing, and glad to be on dry land.

Critical incident stress is a constant adversary of first responders. Paramedics, being on the front lines of public safety every single day, stand at the delicate intersection of life and death. Because of this, they are exposed to situations that most people could never imagine: the beauty of a life saved, the trauma of a life lost, and everything in between. A Paramedic's Story offers the chance for you, a paramedic, to tell the story of your own career one shift at time. Each entry allows specific information about life on shift: unit assignment, crew, best part of the day, and most troubling part of the day. There is also space to vent, narrate, create, or document a career spent as an emergency responder. It can be therapeutic, imaginative, and, most importantly, anything that you want it to be. As a paramedic, this is your story.

A HANDY GUIDE TO FIELD-TESTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR CRITICAL TIMES WHEN NO DOCTOR IS AVAILABLEWhen disaster strikes and no doctors are available, you'll have to rely on your own medical knowledge to survive. Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook goes beyond basic first aid to teach you military-tested methods for treating life-threatening medical conditions, including:*; Gunshot wounds*; Third degree burns*; Radiation exposure*; Broken bones*; Ruptured arteries*; Severed limbs*; Poisonous snakebites*; Anaphylactic shockThe author, an emergency responder, details step-by-step treatment for everything from hypothermia and heat stroke to seizures and cardiac emergencies. Using information from actual military field manuals, this book provides everything you need to keep you and your loved ones safe when there's nowhere else to turn.

WHEN YOUR LIFE, HOME, AND PROPERTY ARE HANGING BY A THREAD, THESE ARE THE KNOTS TOO STRONG TO BREAKYOUR LIFEWhen catastrophe strikes and modern technologies fail, ropework skills will become as essential for survival as they were for centuries past. The variety of knots taught in this book are guaranteed to hold against even the toughest forces, ensuring that an emergency doesn't turn into a disaster. When your life, home, and property are hanging by a thread, these powerful knots are too strong to break:*;Create sturdy shelter with a HARNESS BEND*;Preserve sacks of grain with a BAG KNOT*;Move fallen trees with a BOWLINE*;Transport injured persons with a MUNTER HITCH*;Secure your home against intruders with a ZEPPELIN BEND*;Hang rations above floodwater with a SCAFFOLD KNOTPrepper's Guide to Knots features clear, step-by-step instructions on tying each knot. It also provides information on selecting the right type of rope, the history of ropework and the specific benefits of each knot.