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What are some of your storm stories from the recent ice storm or any other events you have had? Did your department spend a lot of time there? What did you do and who did you help?
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Permalink Reply by Cody Baker on
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I remember we had a tornado touch down and I remember running outside to look and saw it and I got back into the department and told everyone well the sirens went off and I can remember one of the paramedics throwing me into the bathroom and told me to cover my head. Then when he came into get me the tornado was gone and everything was ok it touched down and stayed a few minutes and left so I was with alot of relief
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Permalink Reply by Paul Acosta on
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Last summer we had a violent thunderstorm come through on July 2nd. We have a professional rodeo from the 2nd through the 4th. We had the grandstands full of people when the storm hit and knocked down power lines and lots of hail and the it dumped about 3 inches of rain. We're a volunteer fire department of 30 and responded to 18 calls in 5 hours because of this. Everything from rescuing the elderly people at the rodeo to trees down on homes. and many power lines down. Some thought it was a small tornado that went through, but the weather service called it straight line winds. Ironically, we have a coal generated power plant nearby that had a structure fire at the same time. This was totally unrelated to the storm. We had to have mutual aid from neighboring departments just to keep up. That was a hell of a night. One I'll never forget.
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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on
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Back in Sept. we had the remenants of hurricane Ivan come through which brought extremely high winds to our area. We were out on power lines and trees down all over the area. Our dispatch actually had so many calls they basically went off line. People would call 911 and then dispatch would call whatever fire dept. needed to respond and they would tone themselves out and go to thier off channel to operate. We would cut up the trees in the roads to clear the road unless it had power lines in it. That's pretty much a no brainer. We started at around 1 pm and I didn't get back home untill around 9 or 9:30 pm.
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