Ok, that’s enough silliness for the night. It’s Christmas Eve 2010 and I wanted to take a serious moment and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Our Battalion Chief (Teddy Adkins) is off sick but still made arrangements to have steaks delivered to every station on the North Battalion. Well done Chief … they were ...
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Chicago LODD
You gotta be shitting me! As usual, I’m behind. Just getting in the house and learning of the loss of 2 brothers in Chicago an the injury of several more. Here’s the video news conference…. I understand these brothers were lost while fighting a fire in a vacant structure and on the 100th anniversary of the 1910 Chicago Union ...
Read More »Snow angels and a netcast follow-up
Well the snow found us. Here in Catawba, we had about 4-5 inches before it changed over to sleet. Chores don’t change just because of the weather, so I had all the regular feeding etc to do. The Buckaroo took the day off despite spending several days last week brushing up on loader operations … I missed the little fella ...
Read More »Update.. Video of the CBS Sunday morning show.
Sorry it took me a while to get this up…. If you didn’t get to see the show this morning, I have it below or visit the Fire Critic HERE for even more.
Read More »Volunteer Firefighters and the survivors of 2009 LODD Steven "Peanut" Koeser.
You folks may remember, back in early October; Rhett Fleitz and John Mitchel of Firefighter Netcast let me tag along for another recording gig. We went to Emitsburg Maryland for the 2010 National Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial Weekend. Read one of my post from the trip HERE. I had never before been. WOW! I carry the memories and feelings of that ...
Read More »It's YELLOW fire truck day!
It seems as though we’ve been surrounded by yellow rigs today. I’ll get to that in a minute or twenty but there are a few other topics / headlines I want to hit first. Line of Duty Deaths (LODD’s) and serious injuries. Outside the United States, Geezer reported on a double LODD in Spain. Here in the U.S. we’ve been ...
Read More »Working on 48 of 72
Yes… that’s 72 hours STRAIGHT in the station! Ugggggg! It seemed a whole lot easier 10 or so years ago… wonder why that is? Anyhow, today I’m back at my normal station but on a different shift (B-shift) and in a different seat. The brother I’m covering for is a Firefighter and his Captain is on duty so that puts ...
Read More »May be my longest post ever…sit down.. we'll see
First off, I need to say that my / our thoughts and prayers go out to several folks this week / today. We have had some family members of our brothers pass this week. 1st Lt. Riddle from down at “The Deuce” lost his brother this past week. I haven’t spoke with Brian since his passing but hope he knows ...
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