Well I got to notice Tuesday afternoon just what happends when a loaded fuel tanker makes one hell of a mistake. It started off around 1530 When a fuel tanker carring 8600 gallons of fuel. Tried to make a right turn off the highway and ended up hitting another 18wheeler hauling welding gas cylinders like you know oxygen, acetyone in the upright 5 foot cylinders and a few oxygen tanks in 500 pound tanks. But thank god he didn't hit the trailer and only knock the tractor for a loop when the fuel… Continue

Well this week is the week..... The week I find out if JFD well offer me the position as fire fighter for their department. All I can do at this moment is sit here and paitently wait (yeah right, but its a nice thought). Well thats whats going on with the whole fire department job. On my volunteer department I have been asigned to Westside station (yay... not really) our trucks never roll from this station mostly to do with the fact no one lives in this area thats on the department, but either… Continue

Well about a year ago we had a new addition to our district a small refinery holds around i think its either 500,000 gallons of unleaded or 5million i cant remember the tank sits around 60-70 feet high kinda nice view from the top haha and 250,000 or 2 and half million gallons of diesel, and a mixing tank and a super unleaded tank that holds 100,000 or 1 million gallons. Which is the closest station next to west memphis. and their is talk of building 6 more tanks the company who put this… Continue

Well, my friend Jackie who enters all the run information into our computer totaled up the calls for 2008 26 or 28 structure fires, 199 ems calls 36 mva's 4 mva with extrication 2 down power lines 2 arcing power sources, 37 brush fires, 18 controlled burns 5 false alarms, and i cant remember what the other 57 were. My volunteer department for 09 we have 6 ems at the moment. this time last year we had 12 6 brush fires and 6 ems. One of the department's im trying to get on usually get around 400… Continue

Well tonight I left my pager/radio at home because it was going to be a night with the wife ( yea right ) so just make it into town when i see smoke to my left and being me i had to go check it out and to my surprise it was a house fire.... so i called the chief to let him know but we where already paged out so i gave him the size up (don't have my mobile in my new suv) so anyway we get the trucks all down this lil driveway when the tanker gets stuck... ok so i hook some chains to it and 32 and… Continue