Saturday, April 30, 2016

Practice makes perfect

     Practice makes perfect. At least that is what the Loma Linda and Colton Fire Departments believe in. This weekend of April 30th, the two fire departments are holding a joint training session.

     The training being held at an abandoned apartments/house. Both departments are training to ventilate the roof. According to fire department official, by ventilating the roof, saves from more damage to the homeowner in a fire.

     Today's excersise took them on the roof of the house. Seven fire fighters took turn's going up the ladder to the roof. They then use chain saws and picks to cut holes in the roof.

     Fore those who enjoy watching fire and rescue personel, this is your chance. They will be there for the next couple of evenings doing verious training.


     The abandoned apartments and house are scheduled to be torn down by the end of May.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Secondlife Roleplay life

Second Life is a virtual world where practicly anything is possible. with that possibility comes virtual role play.

In second life or sl as it is known, there are over 7,700 role play or rp groups. These groups range from role playing police and fire fighter, to adult rp's.

Many verious roles available to people on second life. Some groups are good others not so good. One such case for good rp groups is a section for pirate rp. There are a few "estates" for pirates in sl.

Emergency services groups are plenty. Seems like every other person on a city/town sim has their own emergency services group.

The good part about being in a role play group on second life is the community. You play as a group and certainly a way to make friends.

As a new player some groups will take you under their wing and teach you how to role play. The down side of that is, depending on the group it could cost you money buying so called toys to rp with.

Role play toys such as police cars, fire trucks, and pirate ships can get expensive if you buy the best ones. The down side to having your own police car or fire truck is if you don't run a group, some sims won't alow it. Most sims if you belong to their police or fire group they provide vehicles for you to use.ds.

Combat is another form of role play populer on second life. In order to make it close to real life, they use whats called health huds. The health huds or meters go down as you get shot or stabbed and can be either self healing or healed by a healing hud.

Second life combat can be compaired to some of the populer first person shooter games. For most weapons you have to go into first person in order to use them.

Another form of role play in second life, is what they call para rp. Para rp is basicly standing around dressed as your chairacter and typing in rounds with no actual action.

Even Ghostbusters and Star Wars has their own role play following. There are lightsabors and force huds that work. For ghostbusters they have rp proton packs and ghosts you rez out and actualy trap.

All in all Second Life you truely can do anything you want and that includes role playing anything you want.