August 2007 Blog Posts (296)

Greetings all!!

Hey there everyone, I heard about this from a friend of mine and thought I'd give it a try. I have a MySpace account, but sadly my profile page seems to have disappeared into the great void of cyberspace. So, if you visit and get a big blank page...thats why. Hopefully, it can be recovered and I won't have to spend decades redoing all the stuff I had on there.

Anyway, I'm into writing fiction and I've finally gotten off my butt and started working out- got a pretty good plan…

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Added by Heather Langston on August 27, 2007 at 11:11am — No Comments

Hot in the big town of Leachville, AR.

Well the weather here in Leachville has been awful. We have had no rain since July 28 and that was the day of the big watermelon happening. It got rained out. Anyway the tempatures have been up towards the 100's with heat index of 110-112. Grass fires are the main problem but cotton picking will start soon and there will probably be some of those.

Added by Amy Hughes Lambert on August 27, 2007 at 10:30am — No Comments

Marblehead, MA Station 2 Steve Walsh photo

Marblehead, MA Station 2

Steve Walsh photo

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Added by Stephen Walsh on August 27, 2007 at 10:15am — No Comments

First day of the rest of my life!!

The title might sound kind of cheesy, however today is the first day of fall semester, in which i will be starting my Fire Training. This is going to be the best 4 semesters of my life cant wait. Well off to class be back on later to let you all know how it went.

Added by Meds on August 27, 2007 at 10:09am — No Comments

How do you feel about the public in general?

I feel that when they are in need we as volunteers are their best asset, but if we are not helping them we are just wasting tax payer's money.

You know as well as I do, we do what we do to help the community, it isn't ,(or shouldn't be), for self gratification. When I started as a junior at the ripe ol' age of 14, I thought that would be what I wanted from being in the fire service, all the glory. As I grew older I realized that it wasn't about me at all, I feel now that we are just…

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Added by Jeff Privette on August 27, 2007 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

MVA Rollover 10:00 PM

Leaving our fundrasing softball tornament we had for out department last night, we were dispacthed to a rollover on morriston rd. Arriving on scene i learned that the patient was already out of the vehicle and was not injured. But how ended up the way he was i do not know. he hit one side of a drive way and ended up on the other upside down. but nothing every suprises me anymore.

Added by Richard Steele on August 26, 2007 at 11:35pm — No Comments

Greetings humanoids!

Blog city here I am. I have survived another edition of the Boston Carribean Festival, perhaps the biggest street party in Boston. For one day the city blocks off Blue Hill Avenue and Franklin Park and allows people to get crazy. And boy do they ever! Even in 100+ degree heat, thousands showed up to march in the parades [two of them!] and just have fun. Costumes were plentiful; some of the paraders were carrying 30 pounds of decorations on their backs.

Yes we had a few problems with…

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Added by Steve on August 26, 2007 at 10:09pm — No Comments

Local Firefighter Re-posted

Please take a moment to read this and pass it on

My father was a fireman, he drove a big red truck, And when he'd go to work each night, he'd say, "Mother wish me luck". Then Dad would not come home again, 'til sometime the next day,

But the thing that bothered me most, was the things some folks would say. A fireman's life is easy, he eats and sleeps and plays,

And sometimes he doesn't fight a fire for days and days and days.

When I first heard these… Continue

Added by Chris Davis on August 26, 2007 at 5:44pm — No Comments

firefighting: a family tradition

Hello everyone! My name is Doug Champaign, I am a firefighter/ emt-B in the big town of Wellsboro, PA. I have been around firefighting all of my life, my dad is a fireman, his dad was a fireman and so on and so on. I have 5 years in as a senior firefighter, but I have 4 years that is off the record as a junior firefighter with the same station. We cover a little over 100 square miles in our first due district and have mutual aid districts that run from 9 miles to 47 miles from our district in… Continue

Added by WFAA CHIEF 1-70 on August 26, 2007 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Hello Brothers and Sisters

I'm glad to see this site, where we can all stay in touch and up to date on whats going on out there in are crazy world.

Added by Dave on August 26, 2007 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Called out last night..

Here's and interesting shot of me (left) and my pards making entry into an OLD! one level wood frame (I hate tongue-n-groove ceilings). We didn't find much inside but charred walls and lots of hot spots. The real fire was in the attic by then so we pulled out and went after 'the beast' from the outside. Not our biggest fire of the month, but a good one anyway. Nobody home, nobody hurt.

Of…

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Added by Gus2620 on August 26, 2007 at 12:57pm — No Comments