Anyway, last night, after immediately after transferring equipment from our reserve engine to our main engine (it was out of service due to a mechanical failure, but was repaired in a timely fashion), the alarms dropped for a call to a structure fire on a construction site.
This of course, is a firefighters wet dream. It was awesome. There were around 4-5 engines and a couple tower trucks. I was amazed at how well coordinated the whole event was. It was like a well choreographed ballet. Any doubts I ever had about the effectiveness and/or skill of volunteer firefighters vs professional ones were completed moved to /dev/null.
Of course, when you pump over 2000 gallons of water per minute, it's windy and 12F ourside, everyone gets covered in a 1/2 inch thick layer of ice. We all pretty looked badass. Shame I wasn't able to get any pics of that.
I'm liking this.
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I duno about a wet dream but it certainly looks like exciting times. I was checking out the other photos on your station site and .. damn. Double shooting in South Riding? You're meant to be living in pleasantville, what happened?
Also - want me to resize that image so that it doesn't push your right hand navbar all the way to the bottom of the page?
yeah - the shooting did suck. it was a double suicide of a 15yr old girl and 19 yr old guy. all i know is the parents of both parties didn't want them dating.
re: pic resizing - sure - i'm at your mercy - it's on your site after all ;)
structure fires where there are no immediate threats to health and life and it's not an inhabited building are totally the wet dream. it's a chance to put your skills to work where the fire doesn't impact people's lives directly. the other kind just plan suck.
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