Yea… I’m here and back at Lucky #13  on duty today.  As usual, I was simply “swamped” over 4 day break and didn’t find the time to check in. When I say “swamped”, I mean that literally. I’ve been knee deep in mud and muck for about as long as I can stand. No, that’s NOT my tractor but the ...

 Storms … high winds, rain and hail blew through Roanoke this evening andleft a trail of debris behind. Around 2pm this evening we received a call that a roof had blown off a building … yea right. We run this address all the time so I know it’s a complex of brick apartments. I’m thinking we’ll get there to find ...

It's why those folks came up to me and told me someone was still inside .. they knew we'd go get em.

We had a Captain’s meeting today and our Chief updated us on a briefing that he had recently given our City Council. Kind of a “State of the Department” if you will. Our “numbers aren’t that bad.  In my mind, there were 2 “stand out” categories… “Dollar Loss” … in 2010, we had around 3.6 Million Dollars in fire damages.  ...

LMAO … only from Statter Captain Wines

I happened across this picture over on Firefighter Nation. It was posted yesterday by  John a munch. It’s title is  “Hooking it” ….  now,  I’m no “Monday Morning Quarterback” (especially since it’s Saturday night..LOL) but I was just wondering… Whadda ya think?    Stay safe and in house… Captain Wines

Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz had it right …. There’s no place like HOME! Yea … I know that’s not Dorothy  but it is how she would have looked had I been the costume designer for The Wizard of Oz … LOL Anyway, Rhett (The Fire Critic) and I made it up to Baltimore for EMS Today and, most importantly; ...

I posted some time back about a friend of mine I call “snow bird”. His real name is Adam Fleming but “snow bird” works too. Anyway,  in the previous post .. “A Helmet tip to our Northern Brethern” I mentioned how Snow bird was building a custom bar from a 1988 Pierce Arrow Fire truck. The truck once belonged to ...