Burn baby burn

It's been a long time since i posted anything here. that's largely because i haven't had that much going on. just working and going to fire school.

the fire classes are nearly done - final exam is two weeks from tonight. eeek.

now we're in the fun stuff. we're taking all of what we've done and actually crawling around burning buildings and such.



My team: Me,"Lightduty" and Becca

So last night we did some search and rescue in the burn building with live fire. we did it on the house and on the aparment building sides.




Searching the room for 'victims'. Me and Lightduty

It was pretty neat. The fires in some of the rooms were big enough that the flames were rolling over our heads on the ceiling. Not always a good thing. It was done on purpose of course so that a) we could experience it and b) put it out.

This is the fun stuff. it's made the class worthwhile. Of course I'll see more fire in the next two weeks than i likely will at the next two years at my station. (we don't have a lot of burning)..


photos courtesy Firefighter Tim Duckworth - thanks ducky