 My main duties in radiology is I prepare patients for procedures, I comfort them when necessary. Oftentimes I'm in the room giving sedation to keep the patients comfortable and pain-free. My duties in the firehouse I'm responsible to plan out the daily activities. I'm usually the incident commander on most of our alarms and even on the larger alarms I'm responsible for my crew that they perform certain tactical tasks that are required to make the operation go well. When people find out I do both jobs most people are kind of surprised because they seem like two full-time type careers. Yeah I think most people think it's pretty cool that I do both. Being that I do both jobs there's one time while on as a duty as a firefighter we deliver triplets. We went to the home right down the street first baby was out and then we delivered the second two babies and got them in the ambulance. I was currently working in the emergency room so everybody knew me and I was riding on the gurney doing CPR on the baby and it's a little nerve-wracking because you're working on a child that's very small and you realize you do have children of your own and how important this small child must be to their new parents. But you do what you're trained to do, take a breath and everyone's relying on you to give quality care. We got to bring them to Kaiser and from what I understand Kaiser gave them excellent care and they all survived. Being a firefighter and an RN we always put other people's needs before our own. In firefighting where are the people running into the fire when everyone running away? Where are the people helping them when they're injured? It's the same thing with RN. I'm always there for patient care. The compassion I learned at the hospital I can bring to the firehouse during our medical calls and both jobs allow me to get better at taking care of people. Hi my name is Blaine Shimizu. I've been a firefighter for 24 years. I've been a registered nurse for 15 years and I'm happy to see I've been a Kaiser member and employee for the last four years.