Visitors

Another day and no Chapy, you get me the fill in. Today started just as any other Saturday: check the trucks off, washout, clean the station and so on. Brooks graced us with his presence today. We began to prepare for a "12" person station tour! As we were midway through brunch our visitors started arriving and they continued to arrive. By the time the arrival of "Moms Group West" we had approximately 60-70 people here for a tour.(as seen below, minus a few) The whole station participated in the tour.



We split everyone up into 3 groups and took off. Everybody had a good time and enjoyed the visit. Thanks goes to the group for the brownies.



We send Congrats out to Max Smith, Randy's son, for his 1st Place in show and 2nd Place in speed in his Pinewood Derby Event.

The Engine and Ladder had a few alarms at the jail today. Medic 1 ran a few calls and praying for a quiet night. Well shortly after he "snow" began to fall the madness of course began. Engine 1, Ladder 1, BC-1, Medic 1, HTR-6 & RS-1 all went on a wild goose chase for a vehicle over an embankment. After a few round-abouts tire tracks were located and the vehicle was gone. As the madness continued Medic 1 was dispatched for someone bleeding to death.....Not so much handled by PD.Smiley is gettin a little closer to getting Phase 1 out of the way. The praying for a quiet night isn't workin out to well........we will see.

Till next time..........

The blog must go on.....

Well here it goes my first try at this since our Blog Master is gone. Once again we were up against it at the "Big Show". The morning started as usual doing our morning duties. Of course Medic 1 was the first out of the house this morning, then Medic 101 came in and we never saw them again. Ladder 1 had EMS Training today, they said it was exhilarating. After class the Ladder guys stayed busy and ran about 8 calls. I couldn't keep up with the Engine. We rarely saw our little "Smiley" cause he spent the day with RS1 trying to make it to Phase 2. We had a visit from Chief Grigsby, Chapy aka Blog Master and Tiffany. We were suppose to have some Boy Scouts come by but they were a no show. Alex spent a portion of the day doing the drug card thing, as I finished up some HW.

Gonna put a small plug in this: Everyone please remember the MDA Golf Tournament June 25 at Hanging Rock Golf Course. If anyone wants to put a team in let me know, wanna donate some money or prizes just let me know. If you are intersted in helping out, let me know.

Sorry Chapy, see what happens when you tell me to blog. Come home soon.......

So ya wanna fight?

Day Three at the Big Show and we wanted to get all the trucks cleaned up top to bottom before washing out. It is a good thing Adam is not afraid of heights or water or he would have been in trouble. After the Ladder got back they got some help from an unlikely subject (the last time she helped in the kitchen is when there were rumors of moving her out) Just kidding Becky you know you are a big help. Medic 101 did not get to have lunch with today because they were stuck over at the Civic Center for ACC Hockey Tournament. It was so bad that they sent the first AIC home and had to call Jose in as the relief driver. Ran into the boys from Station 9today on the medic unit at the ER and told them about out blog and hope to have it ready so we can get links for 3, 6 and 9 tonight. Young Compton AKA "Smiley" was riding the Medic truck today attempting to get a few more calls in and I have figured out that he is going to be a fight magnet. The first pt we had was assaulted by some "close friends" of his causing a LAC to the top of his head. After convincing him to calm down we loaded him up and headed to the ER to save him from getting arrested. About 6 blocks later he got agitated with the questions we were asking (name, DOB, where does it hurt?) when he attempted to swing at the Young AIC. Once he was convinced hitting was not allowed in the back of the medic unit, he was taken away to the ER with our brothers in blue with a new set of bracelets. Later on in day we were on scene at the Rescue Mission when a large fight broke out into the street. It started out like a playground fight and soon 15-20 were involved but when PD arrived everyone forgot who was involved except the big boy in the yellow coat. I was surprised PD didn't want to pawn him off on us.
Tonight after dinner we had a couple of cuties stop by to show off their stuff.

It was great to have some cute visitors after dealing with some of Roanoke's "finest"
A-shift has been notified about the blog and more info from them is sure to come. I hope to get B-shift involved as well, until next time. . .

Full House

Today was one of those days when you start out on one truck and wind up on the other trucks at least once before the day was done. Today we had a full station 2 College of Health Sciences Fire students and two Radford Nursing students. We had Stoval riding with EMS Capt. Bocock attempting to get his last call so he can get checked off. We now have a new card carrying EMT-I many know him as Smiley, but congrats to J. Compton AKA "Smiley". By the time he gets done jumping through all of the hoops to get turned loose he can retire. If you get a chance, tell him congrats. Today A. Fleming's daughter came by the station to have lunch with dear old dad and asked him if she could take a picture for her photography class. As you can see above we did our best to oblige. This is everyone except our boy Hunt. He is on vacation this cycle and is being missed by all. The reserve ladder was taken to the shop yesterday and replaced with Ladder 7 and is busting at the seams with all of our equipment. Tonight at dinner we had 18 eating and our beautiful huge table was not big enough. It started slowing down this evening after the students went home and we hope for a good night.

C-shift

Today was Day 1 for C-shift and it started off normal equipment check off after morning turnover. B-shift advised that they were having trouble with the nozzle on the reserve ladder (901). Here is one of C-shifts mechanics investigating the nozzle. Medic 1 was out early and often and got some help when Rogers showed up to put Medic 101 in service. Ladder 1 had to go to the garage for a professional opinion. After dinner Northside had a fire on Norton and we had to send INV 1 over to investigate.

Big Show

With so many stations starting thier own blogs, I was asked to get the ball rolling on one for Station 1. Like station 3, 6 and 9 I hope to get all three shifts involved. For those that don't know about Station 1 here is a little info: Built in 2007 currently these trucks are assigned Ladder 1, Engine 1, Medic 1, Battalion 1, RS 1, Medic 101 and INV 1. It is also the head quarters for Fire Administration.