Have the ghosts found us?

Busy start this morning with a couple of alarms and then a extrication. School bus vs car our PIO Tiffany arrived and capture a couple pictures after the door was removed and the pt's were being extricated.

We made it back to get our house chores done, trucks washed when Capt. Brown noticed a trail heading out the middle bay across the apron to the street. Apparently when water gets into the exhaust pipe of the reserve Ladder, once started and in motion leaves a trail of soot. Not one to ask his people to do something that he would not do he attempted to clean this trail. The only way to get the broom from him was to trick it out of his hands, unfortunately it was too difficult to get with just elbow grease.

Young Compton AKA "Smiley" was getting some cram time for his protocol test so he proceed to the next round. (*He took the test after lunch and passed Congrats young Smiley)

Chief Barker stopped by to look at his shift draft. If you have questions about your new assignment give him a call and he can explain who is going where and when.

The Big Show had a tour today the youngsters from Head Start got to see the Busiest Fire Station in the city. I am not sure who was more impressed the kids looking at the trucks or C-shift watching how 3 ladies and wrangle 14 kids and not lose it. Does the phrase "herding cats" mean anything?
Chef Decker took the day off but Chef JJ our resident thrifty shopper whipped up a batch of fajitas and fries.

After lunch we headed down to Station 6 for HTR training, unfortunately the medic unit did not get to stay for the entire training and only got to get a few pictures before leaving.

After training today, an alarm came in at 704 Franklin Rd Station 1 "the Big Show" A quick response time maybe the quickest in City History to get a Ladder, Engine, Medic, Battalion and RS1 all on scene. After searching the station top to bottom neither the pull stations or the Emergency buttons had been activated. The panel was not showing any activation. So now the thoughts of the "ghosts" from the old house had finally found the Big Show. Attempts were made to find out where the alarm may have come in from by pulling a pull station but for some unknown reason that information never made it to dispatch. Talk of bringing back the night watch rumbled through the station.

Before dinner Randy's wife Jill stopped by to check in on her beloved with hopes of keeping him in line. As we all sat down for dinner the tones went out for a report of a vacant house on fire on Riverland. After running around that area of Southeast we found a lady cooking her London Broil on the charcoal grill.
The medic units kept the roads hot into the night. Now we are hoping for a good night.

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..........

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.