Incident 10-815, 31 May 2010, 22:19 hrs. Mack505 commanding. Wow. I’m almost speechless.
So of course I’ll blog about it.
At the firehouse, we have a photo wall above the kitchen. Framed poster-sized prints of Engine 4′s 1987 Hahn, Ladder 1′s 1967 ALF, and Engine 3′s 1963 Howe have pride of place. (Only the Hahn is still with us.) The Howe was a department [...]
Incident 10-812, 31 May 2010, 17:03 hrs. Mack505 commanding. I’ve discovered that my self-image is skewed. All joking aside, I first noticed it years ago. If I put a hat on my head so that it feels right, it’s turned about 10-15 degrees to the right. If I straighten it in a mirror, it just doesn’t feel right. Since I’ve been doing Project 365, [...]
Incident 10-809, 27 May 2010, 23:57 hrs. Mack505 commanding. A hot July day. The problem is it’s only May. The weather people call it unseasonably warm; I call it wonderful. This is New England, so it won’t last anyway.
We leave the air-conditioned coolness of the crew quarters for the heat of the garage as the overhead door rumbles upward for what feels like [...]
Incident 10-801, 25 May 2010, 21:48 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
Incident 10-795, 25 May 2010, 10:39 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
This guy keeps showing up in my Facebook ad bar. What does he have to do with educational grants? Does FB think I look like him, or that I want to become like him? Either way, it gets a FAIL.
Incident 10-790, 25 May 2010, 10:16 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
An elderly gentleman.
He sits in his bent car, with no recollection of where he came from or where he was going. Or at least he won’t tell us. The collision was minor, but he has no idea why he suddenly made a left turn into a parked car. He [...]
Incident 10-787, 25 May 2010, 09:58 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
Incident 10-784, 22 May 2010, 21:09 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
Incident 10-778, 22 May 2010, 16:30 hrs. Mack505 commanding.
Noah and his brother Sebastian turned 10 years old this past week. When we first met them, they were 7 weeks old and feral. Noah was all eyes and ears; in fact the joke is that they’ve never grown and the rest of him has simply gotten bigger. He used [...]
Incident 10-768, 20 May 2010, 23:27 hrs. Mack505 commanding. The mid-afternoon traffic crawls slowly across town. I’m not paying much attention from the passenger seat, but suddenly something doesn’t look quite right up ahead. “Hey, isn’t that. . .?”
BEEP BEEP BEEP: “Fire Alarm has dispatched Engine 681, Truck 68, and Medic 9 to Local Thoroughfare at Right Here Street for a motor vehicle [...]
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Loving my oil burners. . .
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