WHOA! Morning Apparatus Check Interrupted By Oak Tree

Think about this one: You are minding your own business on a beautiful Sunday morning checking out the apparatus. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and the rookies are doing, well, what rookies do. Then all of a sudden CRASH! An oak tree falls in front of your station directly into the apparatus! That'll wake your ass up.
That's exactly what happened in Hillsborough County, Florida yesterday. An oak tree fell on Engine and Rescue 27 at Fire Station 27 (Blooingdale Ave). No one was injured and the vehicles were out of service for several hours - no doubt getting all the paperwork completed!

If you look at the photo below, it doesn't look all that bad ... nothing that a chainsaw and a little bit of carnuba wax can't fix! It's good to know that no one got hurt by this silent killer!

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Comment by Firedog on July 9, 2008 at 6:14pm: Was the"B" shift on duty?????? stay safe

Comment by Oldman on July 9, 2008 at 11:34am: They were testing the new axes!

Comment by FireCat on July 8, 2008 at 9:06pm: Eric -

Didn't this happen at your Fire Station? Riverview is really close to there...admit it your responsible for this... lol

TCSS,
Cat :o)

Comment by lutan1 on July 8, 2008 at 4:52pm: You can ALWAYS blame the rookies, no matter what happened!

Damn rookies....

Comment by LT Lake on July 7, 2008 at 4:18pm: I see the problem. Someone seen your trucks and knew they were not ripe yet and tried to hang them back on the tree to ripen....lol That looks like a bad day no matter how you look at it.