green...yellow, whatever they are thay arn't real trucks reguardless.......and sorry but red is still the way to go!!!- i guess they had a big structure fire of some sort they where callin like everyone and they where there for a while but idk didn't really hear much. i was hopin i could maybe get the scoop if you where there lol. we where just standby at their station since it was on buttermilk rd. so they had everyone outa ithaca and around there instead.

wow yea that sucks! i was at work too but it was really slow and i get luckly toobecause my boss is a commishoner so lol yea its pritty cool

and i think im gonna skip out on CFR and just wait and do EMT....its just too much all at once right now.

did you goi to the mutual-aid tonight? how did it go?... we got called up to danby station--call number 100!!!

thank you for the offer though! i might have to keep you oin mind for the next time somethin rolles around if i end up not bein able to do CFR. i might end up waiting untill next year and then end up just doing my emt when it comes around if i gotta.......and thats the other part- since its not a fire class technically idk for sure yet if my chief will cover it or not and the squas capt. won't because i din't run on the squad only fd and its totally separate here

awe cool thats sweet to offer! thank you!... i might keep that in mind--i had an interviwe for a new job today so we will see how that goes i might hand in my books and stuff tonight but i havn't decided yet cuz if i really put my mind to it i could do it and would probably be fine but,its alot of work with everything else oin my plate and having 4 nights a week tied up with fire stuff makes it hard to get hours in for work and i need the money more than that class right now so i guess that comes first. :( thats just the way life goes sometimes and it sucks!

than i got the brilliant idea to take CFR- yea cuz like im not already buissy enough lol. i have school full time, work after school and then have rescue tech wed nights and training nights thursday nights... not too bad right? so than i decide to do the damn ems version of ff1 basically OMG! and lemme tell ya ff stuff is a breeze for me i want to get into emt stuff but i don;t have any clue about it at all!!! i have my basic first aid cert but thats as far ad it goes besides CPR and that. so now tues wed thurs i am in class, go to school all day work in between and then am studying for CfR every spare chance i get! i think my work load has reached OVERLOAD. exp with plannning for collage and what not. i might have to postpone the emt stuff untill i go tot colage and have to take it there for my degree indtead of ahead of time

hq yea thats always fun! atleast you had time to put the hose back on first!! i was at the station one day by myself was lookin the trucks over and what not, well the hose on our attack line hadn't been loaded right after our training the night before. ok no big deal its an easy cross lay and it is our main attack truck and that is the main hand line. i got up ontop and got all of the 1 3/4 attack line oin a nice big pile on the floor of the bay (all 200') an i got one row down and atarted to bring that row back to the front and we got a call for a poss. structure fire... i loaded that entire cross lay bu the time the driver of the engine got to the rig. and it wven worked and looked half descent! i should do one of those hose lay competitions lol

ha yea i heards about that we hat our training night and all the guys where talkin about it and io was thinkin-- eh, i but he had fun at that one lol-- one guy was makin a HUGE deal about it he likes to tell stories and the reat of us where like yea ok, and this is what REALLY happened instead lol. ---we did maintenance lastnight,fun!, and after iu came in one of the chiefs was like hey tiff i gotta talk to you in my office for a sec. i was like oh shit! what now?! i know its about the call on tuesday. and it was, he got approached by someone and get his ass chewed because i went in and was packed up. i told him last i knew i had the pritty little piece of paper with that stamp on it saying i could anyway. then he asked well where you inside that structure?i couldn't say deffinately yes or know because i didn't physically see you in there with my own eyes. i looked over to the other guy that i was on the line with and said chief if you say i wasn't supposed to go in to a structure i wasnt in there. hes like good enough for me, i didn't even see who was on the line so. ---i don't know why some people gotta be dicks! , and there is another kid (that is a friggen retard but thats besides the point) he has NO training no classes nothin but just because he just turned 18 and law says you can be full interior when you are 18 he thinks he is god now. soio he gets all pissy and tries to start stuff because i get to do stuff but between his attitude and the fact that he has no damn clue what hes doin and wont isten long enough for everyone to teach him, most of the guys wont let him do anything. one of the assistant chiefs went in and talked to the chief and said, ok if im on a scene and i'm short for green tags. i have a kid that just turned 18 and a kid that has ff1 and knows as much as most of the officers...who am i gonna send in?

well alot has been happening! ive been really buisy i havn't had much time to get online between my work schedule and firefightin stuff....so, we got 2 STRUCTURE FIRES within a week! we had one saturday and of course as much as we hear CANDOR FIRE CANDOR! REPORTED STRUCTURE FIRE! ofcourse everyone was there so i couldn't really do anything at first becausse we had all the chiefs and whatnot there plus we had some mutual aid depts. too we called in fast from owego and had greentags from spencer and had their T.I.C. so their chief was there too but hes pritty cool. lol he was pickin on me the whole time. then i got sent in with that group to do overhaul and check for hotspots and whatever. then they sent me up into the attick becaure i was the only one small enough to squeeze into the room and to get up there -and then i got stuck once i finally got up there. lol it was kinda funny but i was gettin pissed tho because nothin was horkin right ya kno so then i got unstuck backed out to take my pack off and crwaled back up so i could ckeck the cealing and all that. im still gettin picked on about stuff from that call(more than just gettin stuck up in the attic).----then the ither one was on tuesday. 3 alarm barn fire then we got another alarm just as i got to the station i heard the siren goinn off again.we had everything out of our station, EVERYTHING, from weltonville, we had trucks and manpower and greentags from owego, and spencer had some from tioga center, danby was on standby at our station and we had another rig from owego on standby at our station. i got to do ALOT that day! we got there its rippin pritty damn good! its a polbarn with a workshop and there is a smaller structure on the side where they had some storage and tools and some stuff for thehorses and what ever. we started two attack lines on the larger structure i was second man on one line with the asst. chief on the nozzel. we getin there and hes just worried about water and gettin to the fire in lookin around and i was like HOLY SHIT! WE ARE FUCKED!!!! hes like what? i tapped opn his ahoulder poiinted to the front and to each side. he was like OH SHIT!...in front of us where two big asedaline tanks there where probably over 20 55gal drums full of god only knows what at that point because the owner is a farmer, has a trucking business, and we know that this structure we are in was his "garage" so we knew it was somethin really flamible atleast. and then to the other side there eas a big ass propane tank!....we pulled outa there and got sent to the back corner of that structure to push water in through the back window since we couldn't get to that corner and we couldn' see anything that was inside the windoe because of all the smoke and stuff. im on the nozzel now, luckilly knowing enough from classes and training to have it be instinct to stand off to the side of the window and not be in the middle of it. there where 3 of those 55gal drums full of oil just inside the window- already on fire- well you know just as well as anyone what happens when water is added! so it flashed out the window, flames covering the entire window probably shot out about 10 feet. that was fun! then i told chief screw you wer not pushin that line thru the window! by then my low air alarm was already goin off and i got sent up to rehab with my group. they got the ladder in there through the front and got the fire nocked down and stuff and they where worried about the integrity of the structure also. so nobody else was goin in with a handline. --thats the most of the exciting stuff with that call pritty much- there where 3 more large propane tanks and several more 55gal drums on the back of the larger structure and in and aroun the smaller attached structure. thank god that it was all just venting and by some miricle something or someone didn't blow up. we had to get the excavater in to do averhaul to get all the tin and stuff outa the way and to pull stuff apart, then we had to wait for fire investigation and D.E.C. because of the oil and whatever else that leaked everywhere.

haha yea been there too but just not the driver, he have had alot if crap like that too... i think there should be a dumb ass test before you can become a member lol

good thing i was where i was supposed to be of we woulda had a loose hose drill OMG! he was lucky that i ddn't go on my ass and that i was where i could reach the bale to shut it off but just barely... i seriously would killed him and the guys wer all runnin cuz they knew i was gonna go after them cuz they where the ones that stuck me with him

heyy whats new and exciting? we havn't had any calls or ne thing since that hay fire... but last thursday i got stuck on a 2 1/2 with this stupid guy that has never even been aloud to touch a charged hoseline before cuz hes just a dumb ass and just plain can't handle anything other than scene support at best ... yea well he opened up the bale fully and all at once major watter hammer so we both got jerked around, then im tryin to hold him and push the hose to him and hes lettin it come back then while its completely open he decides to let go!!!!!

ha wow! thats really awesome!! yea my dad's exgirlfriend/kinda sorta almost step mom lives in freeville and runs squad and was actually on all 5 depts at one point in time lol idk if shes still around at all or even still runnin but yea we picked on her about that all the time.-----thats really awesome tho! yea i woulda been made an lt this past elections but we have a policy that you can't be a line officer either appointed of elected unless you are a minimum of 18 and have been an active member for one year or more so maybe this year lol

and i guess we had some issues from that call cuz one of our guys got caught on fire b-c an owego team pushed fire onto him....idk ddn't see it it was just after i got relieved to change out my bottle and get reassigned, but i guess there is a big fuss being made about it now-more drama!

yea we run with them sometimes. we are the neighboring dist. to them. we didn't get called out it must not have been too bad --and no don't know what channel one of the guys told me thay where like hey i say u! i was like uh yea ya did u wer my back on the nozel remember?_ he was like no no on the news you where on tv ...i was like oh ok

ha! yea your tellin me about the heat!!!!! yuck!.....luckilly my dept left before mop up so we ddn't all die- call came out around 2am we where there untill a little after 11 and weltonville, owego, newakvalley, and couple campville guys where there for a couple more hours after we headed out. we hent and put the fire out for the boys (cuz they couldnt seem to make much progress) and then left them with the rest lol.---and apparently i made it on the news somehow too

we had a call for manpower to weltonville (which, if you didn't know, is still part of candor's fire district so we where supposed to get toned out at the same time like for automatic mutual aid but ddn't work that way) ...but we had no idea what the call was we get there and its hundreds of round bales on fire an this farm...right next to the barn and everything omg and it was a mess...

and then today- wake up ass early im the a-m to go to a call just gettin back now