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At 2:58am on January 18, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: Congratulations!!!!! Well done Kasey. You must be proud? The weather is a little better today -25....it's getting there! Gotta go to bed.....stay safe!

Daniel

At 2:25pm on January 17, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: Hi Kasey! It get's even colder than that sometimes! Yes, all businesses and schools are open. I even remarked to my partner the other day that I was getting used to it and wasn't wearing my coat to go from the rig to the house on calls! We had a jumper this morning who kept us at bay for an hour and a half and then jumped anyways! He hit the fourth floor on the way down from the 16th. Not too much left of him but he was steaming on the ground....it's a weird sight to see. Take care and be safe!!

Daniel

At 7:40am on January 16, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: Well, I believe that we learn through our mistakes and that others can learn through them too!! Remember, another member of the group can make a mistake just as easily as you and then you would loose out. The temperature here today is -32 F. That's minus 32!!! Skin freezes in four minutes at that temp! We have been trying to convince all the homeless to come inside but some are hard-core and we find them frozen to death. Stay safe and warm!!

Daniel

At 2:09pm on January 12, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: The way I see it, we can only do what we can do right? If our response time is too slow, is it really our fault? Sometimes outside forces change the outcome of things and we cannot change that. Be proud of what you do for your community, you are a hero!
Back to school...I remember doing that too. I always hated working in groups because inevitably, some jack ass would just sit back and do nothing but always take the credit! Just stay focused on this thought...it will all be over one day!!! Stay safe Kasey...talk later!

Daniel

At 8:11am on January 10, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: That's pretty good response from anywhere wouldn't you say? Our average response is 6 minutes and we are already in the rig waiting for calls! I am impressed with your response time. Keep up the great service!! Stay safe...

Daniel

At 10:44pm on January 9, 2009, Corey Hite said…: im going to virginia western right now to get my general studies out of the way then i plan on transferring to jefferson for my paramedic and fire science degrees. hey im prob. not gonna be near a computer all weekend. i got haz-mat ops and our fire dept. banquet. u can text me though if u want. 540-580-0395.

At 8:50am on January 9, 2009, Corey Hite said…: haha. u should! we've got a pretty nice mall. If u do u just let me know and we can meet up.

At 1:47am on January 9, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: I wish I was 30 minutes away from some things...Do you wait at the firehouse for calls or respond from home? We must sit around on street corners {with the engine running} and wait for calls. We cover a specific area while we are waiting but we are also moved around quite frequently. We serve a population of over 1,000,000 people. The area is quite large too. I'll ask my daughter about swapping places with you for a spell...lol! Stay safe.

Damiel

At 11:13pm on January 8, 2009, Corey Hite said…: most definitely. i havent been down there in a year or two. im sure my cousin wouldnt mind. do u ever travel near the roanoke area?

At 6:32pm on January 8, 2009, Michael said…: Well if u send me another one I will send u one from my old dept. Buffalo TWP FPD in Louisiana MO
Michael Wojick
5316 Blow St.
ST. Louis MO 63109

At 6:24pm on January 8, 2009, Jethro said…: yea i understand. yea i dont think ur mustang would make it..... Hell my Chevrolet with 35's will barely make it. But you like Fords so i know nothin you have will make it. lol

At 4:13pm on January 8, 2009, Corey Hite said…: yea u dont need your EMT for the forestry department. you just get paid a lil more. the way my class was was they gave u an online study course that you could take at home and they can see your scores and whether or not you took the whole course from their computer and the only classroom you have is the first day, final exam, and practicals. last time i went it was like 2 hrs i think? i cant really remember. it didnt take that long though.

At 1:50pm on January 8, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: My daughter would love to be where you are....they hardly ever stay home because of snow!! I would take the rain over this snow.....do you work far from your house? It takes me about 20 minutes to get to the station house from here. Stay safe Kasey!

Daniel

At 12:06pm on January 8, 2009, Jethro said…: Hey this might be kinda weird question, but sometime your gonna have to come up here and hang out with all my firefighter buddys, we have a party pretty much every weekend. We hang out with all the cumberland Firefighters and one of the LT's lets us party over at his house cause he got a mud hole and we go boggin over there all the time. So if you ever wanna hang out just let me know and we will plan somthin

At 12:04pm on January 8, 2009, Jethro said…: Yea that sounds like us we only get about 1 or 2 calls a week . I remember last year we went 2 months with out a call. But we just got our call sheets from last year and it says we ran 167 calls last year and we had 6 in 3 days. So it all depends on the weather up here too.

At 6:58pm on January 7, 2009, Jethro said…: Yea i try and go tolynchburg everynow and again. thats cool. Yea we had 3 calls new years eve and one was like 5 in the mornin so we done had like 5 calls since the beginning of the year. Well i hope you had fun at work today...

At 4:47pm on January 7, 2009, Michael said…: Just checking in to see how your patch collection is coming. I just past the 1,000 mark

At 10:40am on January 7, 2009, Jethro said…: Thats cool im about 1 hr west of Richmond and about 45 mins from Lynchburg.... so we aint that far from each other. Anyways whats goin on down there?

At 10:28am on January 7, 2009, Daniel Robert Garvin said…: Oh yeah, you do not want to hit a moose. Like I mentioned, most people here are killed in those accidents. The moose weighs on average, 300-500 pounds. You can imagine what it looks like after being hit by a car at 90 mph...

The snow is falling faster than I can shovel it out of my driveway, so I am off to bed for a nap. I know when I get up, it will be deep and I will have to shovel it for hours. When we have a storm here, usually 10-25 inches constitutes a storm, the schools close but only for a day. The clean up crews have everything back to normal the next day. We average about 20-30 inches a month in winter.
I know what you mean about patirnts hitting on you, I used to work with a female paramedic and guys would hit on her all the time. I told her to be stern with them but I think she was flattered by it. I would be annoyed. I know what you mean about calls too, it seems that I will go a long time without a certain type of call and then all of a sudde, I have like five in a week! I hope you are having fun? Stay safe...

Daniel

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