StraightAhead

I’m here at the firestation working my second day on.  I just gave a tour to a group of tiger cubs and cub scouts.  They were very well mannered and cute.  It’s always nice to give a tour to a group like that.  The adults had a lot of good questions about the fire dept. [...]

I found this interesting article this morning. It’s about some of the responsibilities that fire fighters have all over the country and what we are trained in. It is a pretty cool part of the job which includes rappelling which is loads of fun.

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I’m back at work today for a two day stent. I would much rather be in the Rockies hiking. I took this shot when we were in Alberta, Canada. I’ve had just one call so far, another suicide, this one suceeded too. I didn’t really need to be there, but that [...]

There’s been some interest in posts i’ve done concerning Fire Department stuff, so I will probably be doing more of those. Maybe that could be a niche for me to fill, hope so.

Firemen get a lot of time off, or it seems so. This is mainly because when they are at work they work 24 hour shifts. There are all kinds of combinations of these 24 hour shifts. When I was on the large fire dept. in Tennessee that I belonged to for 7 years we worked [...]

I’ve been on duty here at fire station 2 for three days now. Last evening turned out to be pretty busy. I had five calls starting after 7pm and ending around 3:30 am today. The first two were medical calls that were pretty bad. The last one was a wreck with a flip over of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m bored here at work so I thought I would post something. I’m still getting over an allergy thing which settled in my chest and gave me laringitis just before it got to this point. Same old story, I’ll cough for about a week before I get rid of it. It makes for very sleepless [...]