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.

Council man Ride-A-Long

Last day of the cycle at the Big Show for C-shift and before the day got started we had to ship Hunt to Station 9 to see if he could work on those Misfits and Becky to Station 7 to give the newlywed a break off the bus. I want to say a big thank you to 1st Lt Price for stepping up and going beyond what he is required to do by riding Medic 1 today and then we went and stuck him with young "future AIC" Compton on top of that. Just after finishing morning chores and checkoffs we were informed we would be having a ride along City council man Court Rosen spent the day with us and JJ was the one that grabbed his ear first.

The ladder truck has IMS training this morning, the engine and the medic unit had a couple runs. When we got back to the station we cleaned the stairwells and put down some new wax. After the IMS training we met for a quick lunch out today,

before the Engine had to go to the afternoon session of the IMS training. Today IMS class was the annual refresher and the use of the command board.

Chief Beckner expressing how important using IMS is for the safety and control of all fire scenes.

Here we have Capt. Wines in command riding on Engine 1 (apparently he is coming to front) after his request to be moved to the "Big Show" This training was showing how important it is for everyone to know and be comfortable with using the IMS board. We all discussed how command could be taken to a higher floor and the steps taken to prevent confusion.

Tiffany stopped by to talked to council man Rosen about some child seat installation for the near future as he and his wife are expecting anytime now.

After dinner and are normal clean up, we wanted to look and see how bad it was behind the stove. It had been a while since we had done it but after moving them out it was no where near as bad as we thought it might be. We knocked it out and mopped up ready to "kick it out" for the rest of the night.

Chef Decker fixed a post dinner snack something between a glazed doughnut and a cinnamon roll.

Chief Beckner's son Zach stopped for a visit to see dad. The night slowed down a bit from the steady day and now we are hoping for a quiet night.

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.......