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Location: Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States

Monday, May 01, 2006

A day with the Fire Company

Went to bed last night at 02:00 hours and got up this morning at 06:30 hours when the alarm went off. I got out of bed and got dressed, got the paper and then ate breakfast while I read the paper. I left the house agter 07:30 hours and headed up to the hose house. I got up there and David and Holly had just got there. I grabbed my glovs out of my bunker pants and went over into the old fire house and help Dave put charcoal in the trailer. After that I helped him carry the kettle outside for it to be cleaned. Dave then pulled the tanker out and I pulled the Utility out and we hooked up the trailer to the back of it. We then washed the kettle out and then went up and got the chickens. Bill then showed up to take some pictures and then when Bubba showed up, we started moving apparatus around so Bill could get some pics for the website. Things went ver good with the Chicken BBQ and soup sale. The soup did not do as good as some of us thought it would, but we did sell out of chicken halves. After everything was cleaned up, I stayed to help put hose back on the tanker. After that, Bubba said that he had a pool to go fill. I asked him if I could go along and he said sure. So I quickly ran our 2 chicken halves up to the house, told my mother what I was doing, and then headed back up to the firehouse. Once back there, I put my gear on the tanker and then me and Bubba took off for Elizabethville. The house was just outside of Eville. It took one load to fill the pool up. It was a little difficult, with it being an above ground pool and the pool being up a hill, so I had to hold the hose over my shoulder. My right shoulder still hurts a little bit, but not as bad. After we were done there, we headed back by going through Millersburg. We stopped at Tower Sales and we both got something to drink, and then we headed to the pump house by Deppen Park to refill the tanker. Bubba showed me what to do at the pump house while we filled the tanker. After we were done there, we headed back to the station. Bubba then called a lady on Powell's Valley Road, who wants her pool filled tomorrow. So we took the Utility out to her house. Bubba let me drive and told me that since we would only be gone a few minutes, we did not need our gear. As we were coming down Enders Road, county toned out Box 29-1 for a fire in a fryer at McDonald's. I flicked the red lights on and turned the siren on and we headed back to the station to grab the tanker. We slid into the parking lot and I shut the Utility off and we both went running into the station and got our gear on. Then we both got in the tanker and we took off, with me working the Federal Q and the air horns. We got as far as Kiner's when they held the box to Company 29. So we turned around and headed back to the station. Once back at the station, I put my gear away and then left to head on home and get cleaned up before I went on duty tonight. Once at home, I took a shower and then I helped my dad take the air conditioner out of the window and move it down to the shed. I then ate dinner and got on the computer to do some things. I am getting ready to hit the old email and surf the web. I will be on late tonight so if any sexy ladies want to talk to me, just give me a buzz.

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