"Twas just hours before midnight, the station was dark,

the trucks were all polished and left in park.

All had gone home to sleep or watch Dick Clark on TV,

for home with the family was the best place to be.



The children were asleep, piled on the living room floor

after pleas of "just one hour more".

The family and I, all together we sat

while my turnouts made a bed for the cat.



When from my pager there came such a sound.

with all those… Continue

Well after 110 hours without power we finally have light and heat. As the snowman says in the beginning of Rudolph..." It was the year of the big storm..." This started on Thursday the 11th, no snow just ice, and freezing rain...lots of ice and freezing rain. Once I was able to get the kids to my Mom's (no power outage there) it was off to the Fire House to help man the station and help out with the "guests" we had living in our meeting room. Oh yeah, also running home every once in a while to… Continue