StraightAhead

Ok, so here I am making lots of medical calls. Many are serious, many aren’t so much. I think you have to have some compassion for people and their problems to stay with a job like this. I see compassion in some of the folks that I work with on these calls, but I know [...]

I’m on a small fire department as some of you may know. I began on a large 1500 man fully paid fire department. The one I am on now has 13 career firemen and about 100 volunteers. The first 10 or 15 years of my fire career was a time when the fire side of [...]

If you plan on going to London, you better be watching your back at all times. Some of those bobbies are Clint Eastwood on a bad day.

What was that Judge thinking when he let him go. On a technicality yet.

Sure, this guy is entitled to his private life, but was this very smart.

I found this article to be pretty interesting, since I definitely have opinions about the subject. There is a new fire station 2 being built in my town as I write this. I will be occupying it about September or October, if all goes to plan. Of course they didn’t ask me to much about [...]

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