Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday Jaws of Life came in and did a presentation. They did their
presentation on Jaws. It was very interesting. They showed us a seat
belt cutter, a window breaker, a cutter and a spreader. You can believe
it or not but it was harder to cut wood than steel. It was weird how all
that stuff looked. It was big and looked like it could cut your hand
off, but really they were meant for that they were meant to save lives.
I think that it was really awesome that all the people that showed us
that stuff were volunteers. They are doing a good cause for us all and I
really would like to thank them so very much.
Mikelle
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday
our class went outside where there was a truck with a trailer on with a
lot of tools. The people who work there are volunteers and three people
came to show us some of the tools that they had. One was able to cut
some steel that a guy brought as a demonstration. He cut it in five
seconds, and there was another tool that was called the spreader. When
he used it some of the welded part came off of the metal. It was pretty
cool seeing all of the tools that they have.
Sincerely,
John
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
On the
twentieth of May, the sixth grade class got introduced to the Jaws of
Life, it is a system that rescues people who've been in car or truck
accidents.
There
were three different people that introduced this to us, Rob, Shelly, and
Richard. They showed us what type of equipment they used to get people
out of cars in certain situations. Like for instance, there was a tool
that weighed about 40 pounds, that was used to cut through metal to get
people out. They even did a demonstration of it. They took a very thick
piece of wood and cut it with the giant "scissors" and it took a little
while but that was only because wood contains more oxygen than metal. By
the way, they also cut a big chunk of metal too. Even that took less
time! There was also a seat belt cutter, blocks to keep the car stable
when trying to get someone out, and a machine that can push metal
together, or separate it! The spreader, push or separate metal machine,
is used to, obviously, separate or push together metal in order to save
the person's life. The even have a fridge in their rescue truck if they
are at a car accident place and have to be there for a long time.
Rob,
Shelly, and Richard said that they have pagers and whenever the pager
goes off, they have to go to the scene no madder what. Even if they're
sleeping at 3:45 a.m. in the morning! Rob said that once on Christmas
when he was opening presents with his family, he got paged and had to go
to the scene. They also said winter is there busiest time because a lot
of cars slide on ice and hit other cars. Hopefully more people won't get
into accident because of the new vibrating things that wake people up if
they fall asleep at the wheel and are crossing the side or middle line.
All and
all, people try to be more safe when driving. Also they are looking for
someone to fill in their job opening.
Brittany T.
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday
we went had people from the JAWS come in and teach us about what they
do. They took us outside on our first hour class. The JAWS is very
important. In the JAWS you help victims get out of a car if you are in a
car accident. The JAWS does not help the victims to get to the hospital
but they help get people of things safely. The trucks they drive for the
JAWS are really big, to hold all the equipment they have to take with
them on a scene. They have big machines that cut through metal and wood
and pretty much everything. They are really heavy, and look like a giant
pair of scissors. In the truck they have many motors and machines and
they have gloves so that you don't get burned or cut trying to help.
when you are running the machines you have to wear gloves. The spreader
can cut things in half and pull apart metal. It was really cool to see
that. I think that it was really cool to have the JAWS come in and tell
us how things work. They said they could be on a scene for a really long
time. They said in the winter time they could have to go help people 2
or 3 times a day. That's a lot. I think it would be really cool to be on
the JAWS because you would get help people and save a life. To run the
spreader you have to go through 2 days of 8 hour training. Talk about a
long time. Also you have to be 18 years old to start being in the JAWS.
When you first start you don't really get to do a lot but you get to go
and help out. The JAWS is really cool and I am happy that they came in
to talk to us about what they do.
sincerely,
Cady Lowe
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Over
the period of this 6th grade year, our English unit has been on
survival. We got a chance to see that type of action yesterday when a
Jaws of life unit came to show us what they do.That sort of job is
strictly volunteer. There is a course you have to take before you can
join though. There were two different tools that they showed how they
worked. One was called the spreader. The other i will call bob. They had
a piece of wood and metal that they used bob on. It actually took longer
to cut the wood, than the metal. There was another piece of welded metal
that they used the spreader on. It stretched out easily. Some of the
welding even popped out. It was a neat experience. The funny thing is
that I used to think that they used those tools to pull people out of
the vehicles.
From,
Alex
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge
Yesterday our class had people from the Jaws of Life come to tell us all
about what they did there. There were three people, they were all
volunteers. We went outside and they showed us their truck. The truck
had a lot of things on it, like two tools to cut cars with if people got
stuck after an accident. They had a lot of other tools on the truck, but
they told us mostly about the big tools, and they demonstrated how to
use them, and how they cut things. First they cut a piece of wood, it
was funny because the blades were supposed to chop right through the
wood, but instead it took them a really long time to be able to cut it.
The next thing they did was demonstrate cutting steel, to my surprise
the steel cut in a really short time. The last thing they did was spread
metal apart and back together, with the spreader, that was really cool
because it was really fast and looked really weird because I have never
seen that before. That is what our English class did yesterday.
Sincerely,
Natasha V
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday
Kaitlin Kubisky's mother talked about the Jaws of Life company with some
of her partners. They did a presentation about their jobs. They showed
us how the tools work and what they are for. First they have to make
sure that they are prepared and protected before they get to work. What
they do is that they have to get people out of cars that crashed and
they have to make sure they are fine. They are the like fire department
and the hospital put together. Three of the tools that they showed us
were the seatbelt cutter, the spreader, and there were these big
clippers that could cut through wood and metal. Those tools were
powerful.
It was very interesting.
From,
David
Swanson
Mrs.
Eldridge,
On May 20,
three people from the Jaws of Life came into our classroom. After they
introduced themselves they took us outside to a big Ford 550. It was
their truck they take on Jaws Calls. It had many cool and helpful tools
on it. There was a winch on the front for getting them unstuck incase
they get stuck or too far down in a ditch. My favorite tool, also one
of the most important, was the big cutters. I’m not sure what there
called but they are like big scissors and are used to cut metal like the
tops of cars. When I grow up I would like to be a rescuer.
Sincerely,
Logan Fogarty
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday we got to see the JAWS truck. Something cool about its name is
that JAWS is a company that they get their equipment from. They did a
demonstration for us too. It was really cool. They used wood and steal.
The wood took a little while to cut though. It took them about 4 or 5
tries! When they used the metal spreader on a piece of steel. It was 2
pieces welded together. And when they made it pull apart, it actually
broke the weldings! A cool thing about the truck is that if they have to
go into the woods for some reason and they get stuck, they have a tool
on the front of the truck that will help them get the truck out. They
have a whole bunch of tools for things like popping windows and thing
like that. There is this one tool that will cut through sea belts like
that. Rob's exact words were, " That thing will cut through seat belts
like a hot knife will cut butter". Over all though it was really cool.
Sierra
Hey
Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday the Jaws people came in. They were telling us that when people
are hurt and,
stuck in a
car they can get them out. They have a lot tools to us for it they can
cut medal with one of them. Wood is stronger them medal because medal
doesn't have air in it. Katlin's mom works for Jaws and, she showed the
class how to spread medal it was so cool. We got to see all their things
on a truck!! The truck was full of lights so when it is dark out. So
when someone got stuck in the woods they can see. They had all this
cutting tools for like medal and wood. They showed something to pry a
window out too. Then they said sometimes they have to be out there for
8 hour. So they bring a mini fridge so if they get hungry or thirsty
they can have them.
From,
Brittany Humes
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
This
year the 6th grades unit is Survival. Yesterday (May 20th) Shelli
Kubiskey, Rob Johnson, and Richie Juliet were nice enough to come in and
help out with our Survival thing. The three of them work for something
called THE JAWS OF LIFE (Jaws). Working for Jaws in a voluntary thing
and they don't get paid to do it! They put a lot of time into something
they consider a second job but they don't get paid money, they get paid
by the fact they know they just saved a life. That just comes to show
that Shelli, Rob, and Richie really care about our community and other
people. When they came to show us everything, the one thing that really
caught my attention was the things people call JAWS. These Jaws could
get a person out of a car of they are hurt or in any danger very fast. I
thought of it as a crab claw. It even kinda looked like one! Richie used
the Jaws and cut through wood and steel. If we went by what happened
yesterday we would all assume that steel is stronger than wood, but most
of us know that's not the case. We might think that because the wood
took longer to cut through but most people didn't realize that the wood
has oxygen in it which takes longer to exit the wood which makes it a
long cutting process. I have been on a Jaws Call with them before so I
know what most of the stuff looked like but I still learned a lot about
how much work it is and many other things. I really enjoyed this
presentation and I am very thankful of them for doing this!
Sincerely,
Haley Maser*
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Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Tuesday, May
20, 08 in the 6th grade 1st hour class the Jaws of Life, it’s a rescue
team that helps at a scene of a car or truck accident. The people that
introduced it to us were Rob, Shelly, and Richard, these three people do
not work this job full time and don't get paid. They took us outside and
we saw their truck that they have all of their tools in. They opened the
doors on the sides on the truck to ALLOT of stuff. The lights they had
on their truck they said it could light up a foot ball field. They had
hard hats. They had these clippers of some sort that could cut
though the metal of a car or truck, also they could spread metal. They
had a demonstration with the clippers, they first cut though wood and
then some metal. They had some poles that I forget the name of, could be
used to stabilize a car. These three great people are helping and not
get paid to do so.-
Mitchel C.
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday, we watched a presentation about the excrecation units other
known as "The Jaws of Life". I knew two of the presenters. One was
Shelly Kubisky-Beck and the other was Rob Johnson. It was a very
interesting presentation because our class got to go outside the whole
hour and we got to see the Jaw's van. Well, Shelly and Rob call it "the
Jaws Van", but it's more like the cab of a huge black truck and were the
truck bed used to be is were there is a trailer like thing. After Rob
showed us all of the little things and tools, Shelly and Mr.Galete,
demonstrated how to use the actual big JAWs. They were pretty awesome.
on looked like the end of a nail clipper and the other looked like
something that was sharp and powerful! First, Mr. Galete got the jaws
that looked like nail clippers and safety things like protective gloves
and a helmet that had a mask to protect his face. Then Shelly and Rob
got the same things on. While Shelly and Rob got a piece of wood, Mr.
Galete started up the Jaws(nail clippers as I would call them) and while
Rob and Shelly held the piece of wood, Mr. Galete cut the wood in half.
It only took like 2 minuets. Then, to demonstrate again, Rob and Shelly
set down a piece of medal that had been hinged together so it would act
as a "door". And Mr. Galete took the other Jaws that looked like pliers
and spread the piece of metal apart in a mater of seconds. You would
think it would be easier with the would, but it actually took a lot
longer. Yesterday I learned a lot about the "Jaws of Life", and a lot
more about what their purpose is and what they have to have and some of
the other things found in the "Jaws Van". So I say, Thank You to Rob,
Shelly, and Mr. Galete!
Nisha
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
On
Monday May, 19 some people came and gave a presentation. The
presentation was about the Jaws of Life. My favorite part was when they
used the Jaws of Life. There were two jaws. The people brought wood and
metal to cut it with. My opinion was that the wood was stronger than the
steel. It took about 30 seconds to cut the wood. It only took about five
seconds to cut the steel. The other jaws could spread metal. They used
two pieces of metal welded together to spread. The welding cracked when
the jaws was used on it. I know that when you use a jaws you have to
keep your hands away from the blades. The jaws could cut it off in
seconds. I think the presentation was educational.
From,
Dan Kinn
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
We got to
see the Jaws of Life program it was pretty cool Knowing that they just
volunteer to do this and they don’t get paid. The only reason why they
do this is to keep the world a better place to live in. Isn’t that nice
of them o do such a thing? They have these cutting tools that can cut
through metal but can barely cut through wood. But one of them can also
spread it was so cool. So, basically what they do is they people from
car accidents. I forgot what the tools were called so I had to make
names up. So, I call the tools the Destructor and the Giant Toe Nail
Clip Spreader
From,
Courtney
Danks
Jaws for
Life
Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
Yesterday, 5/20/08, the sixth grade English class got to see a
presentation of the Jaws for Life. Kaitlin Kubiskey and myself set this
performance up with Ms. Turk earlier this month. Three of the volunteers
from the Jaws program came and told us what they do, showed us some of
he tools, and some other things as well. Those three wonderful
volunteers where no other than, Shelli Kubiskey, Rob Johnson, and Richey
Gelet. I think it went over really well. First Rob showed us the
equipment that they have to wear. Hen they get to a scene, they have to
wear a suit that can’t be harmed by glass, such as a windshield or a car
window. They also have to wear heavy-duty gloves for protection and also
hard hats (helmets) for their heads. Oh, I almost forgot, they also have
to wear safety glasses. Next Rob showed us something that helps lift up
the car so they can get the patient out. After that he showed us the
lights, and sirens. Then we got to see their “refuel” area, with
Gatorades, and cookies. After that Rescue Rob and Richey showed up the
“spreader” and some type of scissors that cut trough metal and wood.
Now what do you think would get cut faster, wood or metal? Wood,
right…no, the wood took longer than the metal. So in the end I really
liked the presentation on the Jaws for Life, I learned a lot.
From, Sami Tiefenthal
On
Monday May, 19 some people came and gave a presentation. The
presentation was about the gear and safety procedures in being a
policeman. There was more equipment in the truck than there were toys in
my room. My favorite part was the Jaws of Life. There were two jaws. The
people brought wood and metal to cut with it. My opinion was that the
wood was stronger than the steel. It took like 30 seconds to cut the
wood. It only took five seconds to cut the steel. The other jaws could
stretch metal. I know that when you use a jaws you have to keep your
hands away from the blades. The jaws could cut it off in seconds. I
think the presentation was educational.
Dan Kinn
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday for English class some guest speakers came in to talk to us
about safety. Their job was to rescue people in car accidents, in
Manistee County, so they could get to the hospital for medical help. The
guest speakers had a special car that they drive which has all of their
tools and gear on it. They showed us all of the different tools that
they had like, an airbag for lifting heavy objects, a seatbelt cutter,
wood, the lights that were attached to the car, the two really big
cutters (a.k.a. The Jaws), what types of safety gear they have to wear,
a windshield cutter, and some poles that lift the car up so that they
can get under it. One of The Jaws was really cool to watch cut. It cut
through wood and steel. The other one was a spreader and a cutter. It
spread a piece of steel and then put it back together. They were really
fast at it too. They said that for them to go to a accident scene they
only needed one person in the car. That would be pretty scary if you
were all by yourself. You can become one of these people when you are
18. They said that usually you need a lot of training for a job like
this. They also talked about how long they were on the scene. They
guests said that they could be on one for almost 8-9 hours. So they keep
a mini fridge in the truck. I thought that it was really cool to have
them come in and teach us about safety.
Sincerely,
Laure
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday,
Ms. Turk’s sixth grade English class had visitors! These visitors came
into the class for a bit to introduce themselves as the Manistee County
JAWS of life. After the introduction, we followed them outside to learn
about the vehicle. It was the largest vehicle the county carried, and
had some extreme tools on it. There was a little sheet of...well, I'm
not quite sure...but it could hold up to 40000 pounds. If you stack two
on top of each other, they would be able to lift their combined weight
of 80000 pounds! We learned about the equipment they use to protect
themselves, (Hard-hats, fire-retardant suits, goggles) and the equipment
they use to help others. Things like giant plier-like contraptions, that
could cut right through some steel, and seat-belt cutters that will cut
right through a seat-belt. The folks at JAWS are volunteers. They take
their own time to help those in accidents. Kudos to the JAWS of life
folks!
Have a nice day!
Sam Briggs
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday the Manistee County Execration unit (Jaws of Life) came to
your school and they taught us about what they did, how they did it,
what tools that they use, and why they do it. Execration stands for
basically removing someone from a car or motorized vehicle. They use
many different tools and some can be used for many different purposes.
There are so many different tools I can’t even name them all. I don’t
really pay attention to the names I just pay attention to what they are
used for. They brought the Jaws truck (van) to our school. It is titled
517. The people that came are Richey Gallette, Rob Johnson, and Shelli
Kubiskey. They did a demonstration about how they pry a door open with
there tool. They also showed us how they cut something with there tool.
They only thing that I learned about was that they lights that they had
all around the truck could power a football stadium. That’s the only
thing that I learned because Shelli Kubiskey is my mom and Rob Johnson
is my step dad.
From,
Kaitlin
Dear Mrs.
Eldridge,
Yesterday we
saw the Jaws of Life. They are an extrication group. The group goes to
accidents to help get people out of a car when they had an accident and
they are hurt or just can’t get out. The extrication group has tool they
use. They have a seat belt cutter, a window breaker, a cutter, and a
spreader. They showed us how they use some of these tools. It looked
like it was harder to cut wood than steel. It was interesting.
Sincerely,
William
Sullivan
www.onekama.k12.mi.us
May 2008
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