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Is that smoke I smell??

While Brad was working in a data center on the other side of Portland, he thought he smelled smoke. Not thinking too much of it, he walked outside the data […]

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Time to Celebrate!!!

After days and days of non-stop practice, we passed our EMT practicals today! We tested in 6 stations (Cardiac arrest management, Trauma assessment, Medical assessment, Airway Management/PEAD, KED – Seated […]

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Natural Gas Line Break

Jodi stayed home from work today to prepare for this weekend’s EMT state practical exams. A little after 1pm a mutual aid call for Molalla toned out – Natural Gas […]

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Welcome to the NEW JB Ranch Blog!

HEY!!! Congratulations – you found the new home for JB Ranch!We’re trying out a new blog service which may allow for more frequent updates…so check back soon!

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Extrication Class

We spent both Saturday and Sunday at a Firefighter’s extrication class. On Saturday we broke into teams and practiced tearing apart cars with different types of tools and then Sunday […]

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Emergency Room Rotations

As part of the EMT Basic requirements, we had to complete at least 8 hours in an emergency room. It just happened to work out that we could complete a […]

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Bailey’s Diagnosis

We procrastinated most of the morning but there was no denying it…Chuckie’s fences just had to be fixed. We finally rustled up the motivation and headed out to the back […]

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Chuck’s Great Escape

So Brad went out to feed this morning and noticed that we were short one cow. He looked around for a while and found Chucky in the neighbor’s pasture. Apparently […]

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All Bundled Up!

Although we’ve gone a few weeks without snow, it’s been VERY cold! Even the horses have on their heavy winter coats!