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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 11:01pm

AND apparently DON'T learn how to drive a fire truck from those on YOUR department - hee hee

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 11:00pm

star witness - holy cow... do tell...

oh wait... one story at a time...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 11:00pm

NOTHING is a NOTHING CALL !!!!


FYI

ALL CALLS ARE IMPORTANT - AND THE FIRST SECOND YOU FORGET THAT WILL BE THE DAY SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENS BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT BEING ATTENTIVE... TO... ALL CALLS ARE IMPORTANT !!!

WHO EVER IS TEACHING YOU OTHERWISE SHOULD BE SLAPPED...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:56pm

ok, so we WANT MORE DETAILS !

how big was the structure?
what about exposures to surrounding things?
how many fire fighters?
what was their approach?
why did they do it that way?
what was the resulting damage?
anyone hurt?

WHAT DID YOU LEARN ???

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:54pm

whoo hoo a fire & a fire truck accident at the same call - that is the big time right there !!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:49pm

So Jim - tell us about your first fire - sir man with an amazing memory !!!

Tell us what it was like back in the day...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:47pm

to a 3 year old - 6 months is 1/7 of their life - that is a big deal... for that age... hee hee

so my birthday is May 23, 1972 - all presents are accepted :)

so I was... 3 yrs 6 months 2 days... hee hee

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:45pm

clearly since I am as old as dirt (making Jim OLDER than dirt) I can't remember my first fires...

the one that sticks as my FIRST - was my first fire death - was a horrible house fire in which a man died - who I had done patient care on dozens of times - so I felt like I knew him... Harold. I remember every second of that call, like it happened yesterday.

I remember being on scene BEFORE any water, for several minutes, to a fully involved 3 story house fire, and helplessly standing there knowing he was 'probably' trapped inside. He was 80+ elderly years, hoarder, who lived alone, no family ever to check on him, and he literally was trapped to death. His literal ONLY exit was on the end of the house where the fire started.

By the time we axed through his front door, which was buried shut with newspapers, we found him sitting on the staircase headed to the upstairs of his house, which ironically was directly in front of the front door we were working to enter. And which is ironically one of the things the fire department repeatedly made him keep clean.

There was a door at the bottom of the staircase, as was the case in old homes. He had shut the door and sat on the staircase, waiting to die (or be rescued). We found him promptly sitting on the stairs, dead (we would never have found him for 20-30 hours if we had to search the rest of the hoard) he was 1/2 vertical burned as fire was traveling from one of the house to the other and had just reached the stairwell section.

he died of smoke inhalation - long before the actual fire reached him... which was quite clear as we stood outside of the house with no water... it was clear, there was no hiding places left in the house for living people...

cause - electrical wire short (from hoarder-ville)

the day that fire happened all prior fires just blurred and paled in comparison

__________________________

Now Kyle - start a scrap book / journal / whatever - and spill your guts - tell us all about this fire !!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 10:23pm

Hey... I was 3 1/2...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on August 21, 2011 at 8:56pm

Hey Kyle & Chad & Everyone...

ooooooooooooo Kyle your first working fire - do tell! do tell...

details details details... tell us ALL about it?

who did what, where, how?

what did you do?

what did you learn?

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