Sorry it took so long to get back to ya, just been busy. But yea, thats a HERO Truck you see.

Yeah, that's the size of it. Trying to move forward toward some solutions though. Our biggest hurdles are training, equipment and apparatus. Kind of the whole enchilada there, huh? There is also the old Volunteer versus paid rivalry showing up now and again.

No Chad, nothing really unusual, in fact we have a decided lack of appropriate apparatus here. Because we have a small tax base, and limited budget, many of our rural stations don't even have structural pumpers. Our company is currently working off a type 4 forestry engine on loan from the forest service. great for brush fires but rotten for structure fires!

Hey Chad, whats going on? Have you been busy like us the last 2 weekends!! Wildfire season is prime around here! 60, 80 acres at a time. We were at Eldred yesterday helping them fight there big one in the woods. Lets just say people are making the Forestry Dept work for their money this year.

Sorry for the delay...What we do is when we arrive at work we are either assigned to the street or the station based on who is working. We have a Captain on the street and a Lt. on the street and then we have an Lt. in the station and one other firefighter and the rest are assigned to police. Everyone has fire gear in their vehicle and if a fire happens then we all respond, fight it and then return to the street. Again sorry for the delay.

A whole lot of nothing here and what about you??

yeah.. im a firefighter haha. we come in all shapes forms and sizes.

thanks for the tanker comment. yeah we get a lot of good comments about it. hope all is well up in new york.

I am currently in the police academy since we do both. It's a challenge but I have 6 weeks left so hopefully I'll survive

Did you guys go to that structure/wild fire in Scio today?

There is very minimal during the winter months the population drops from about 1100 in summer and 150 in winter. just doing indoor projects and maintance mostly

not a whole lot. how are you

Between Feb and aug the station is "shut down" no planes in or out. because of this we close our secound station and drop staffing from 55 to 12. during the summer months (august - feb) we have planes in and out from both the south pole and new zealand on a daily basis

yeah its cold but you get used to it and its an awesome experience.

Thanks :)

Chad, are you a EMT? If so, you would probably like JEMS.COM if you are not on it already.

Hey guy. I remember ya. How are things going? Your old Dept. (Eldred) has been pretty busy lately! We've been called for mutual aid over there a lot this year! Lot of structure fires. HEY I'm not complaining though! Anytime we can make a run, I'm all for it. I like your photos. Take care and keep in touch.

Thank you for the warm welcome... julie

Hi Chad, sorry for the late reply! Things are good here in the Emerald Isle, we're busy with calls here (a lot of MVA's and house fires lately - not nice at all) so that's keeping me out of trouble (for a while anyway!). We're all looking forward to Paddy's Day here and to cap it all off I'll be off duty so I'll be drowning the shamrock like there's no tomorrow!!! How's things with you and yours?