Bill's First Fire
I've been keeping my eye out for firefighting blogs. Bill Coupe has a blog called Code, Code World. He is a computer programmer, but he is also a firefighter.
Here he relates the story of his first fire. It is great reading. Here is an excerpt:
As I came in the door, he starts yelling at me to jump in the front line pumper and drive it to the scene and he'll drive the tanker.Now, I remembered, from my one drill, that the chief wanted the trucks to roll fully ‘loaded’ with personnel, and with qualified operators, but Pete’s insistent, and says “There’ll be ‘somebody’ there to run the truck, just get it there”. So, in deference to his long standing in the department, and his role as a fire commissioner, I fire that truck up and head out.
Hehehe - has anyone else been in that situation?
Comments
Joe -
Thanks for the link, and the kind words. Drop me an email if you'd like links to the other firefighting memories I've posted.
I like your blog, lots of interesting information here.
-Bill
Posted by: Bill at September 21, 2005 09:18 PM
