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Location: Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Farm Rescue, Day 2

I went to bed last night around 01:30 hours and woke up this morning at 08:30 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and changed into street clothes and then grabbed my digital camera and then left the house around 08:30 hours and headed up to the fire house for day 2 of farm rescue training. I got up there and they were outside getting the grain bin simulator set up. I went into the station and LeeAnn and Lonny were taking the 3 tables from Jean into the station. My father then showed up and we said about moving the Engine out so we could set tables up in the bay. So I moved the Engine out and Dave had my father get the gas meter out of the Utility. Then Truck 20 showed up and then Engine 29-1 showed up playing the Looney Tones theme song. We then all went inside and they had the table set up with all the doughnuts on it and the coffee and cups set out and we then talked about what we were all going to do today. After we went over that, we went outside and they went over the grain bin simulator with us. We then went over to a rope pull station that had set up to see how much force someone could pull. I pulled around 435 I think. We then loaded up in the Engine and the Utility and headed to Penmen's Farm to look at a grain bin set up. From there we headed up to the Faust farm to go over thermal imaging on a silo, thermometer probes, and pierecing nozzles. We then moved over to the Shoop farm and Truck 20 set up and took a few of us up to take a look at the top of a Havestor Silo. We then went down around back and they showed us how they gas a oxygen-limiting silo. We then headed on back to the station around 12:00 hours. Once back there we took the final test and then Robin came in with the three, 3 foot subs from Subway for lunch. They also had different bags of chips and some soup also. After everyone ate, we went over the test and then the guys from 20 and 29 left. We then started to clean things up and then my father took the Engine and I took the Utility and we ran into Shell to ge fuel and then headed on back out. Once back out, everyone was still talking to Eric about some more classes, most notablly a vehicle rescue class I believe next October. We then put the trucks away. The hall was now being rented so we couldn't take the tables and chairs back up to the hall until 15:30 hours. Katina asked me if I could hang around until then and I said that I could. She then ran home quickly and while she was gone I did the checks on the medical bags on the trucks. Katina then got a phone call from her mother that they were coming down Peters Mountain and asked me if I would mind helping get the recliner in her house and I said that was not a problem. LeeAnn then came out to help also and once we got it in, we heaed back to the fire station. LeeAnn then worked on changing the sign along the road and then once the people were done in the hall, we took the tables and chairs back up and got the hall set back up. I then had the last piece of ham and cheese sub left over for dinner and some chips while LeeAnn and Katina worked on three blankets. My father then showed up around 17:40 hours and got things set up for Con-Ed class tonight. Nancy then showed up and we had class on Documentation. After class was over, I went down and locked the station up and then headed on home. Once at home I took a shower and then watched Jeff Dunham's 1 hour Chirstmas Special on Comedy Central, and I laughed my ass off. I am now getting ready to hit the old email and surf the net. 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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