November 20th 2005…

Call #1:

Today we are doing our monthly intern training on Sunday because of the thanksgiving weekend. I don’t know if I mentioned it before but we have monthly intern training normally on the last Saturday of every month.

When everyone finally arrived and we started the in class portion of our training day, we got a call almost immediately. We were dispatched to a possible structure fire at 8:30am. Since all of the interns were training, the captain decided that we should all go just in case it was a ‘real’ fire.

When we arrived (since I was normally on shift that day) me and my partner intern were the first into the building. We strapped on our SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus) and grabbed all the standard entry gear we went to the front door.

When we opened the door, there was a ton of smoke. It wasn’t too thick yet but there was a lot of it. The other intern and I moved inside to search for the source. As we walked through the smoke we couldn’t feel any heat or see any flame. As we moved farther into the house we started noticing that the smoke was getting much thicker.

We finally entered the last room of the house where the smoke was the thickest. As we looked around the room we noticed that on one wall the paint was turning yellow… so I took off one of my gloves and felt the wall and sure enough it was hot. After some more investigation we found that the source of the smoke was a faulty wire in the heater that was burning all of the spider webs and dust that was accumulated in the wall.

Too bad we got there in time… haha other wise there would have been a ‘real’ fire.

Call #2:

At approximately 9:15pm we are dispatched for a vehicle accident. We get all suited up in our gear, getting ready for the worst. As we come on scene we see a sheriff officer off the sire of the road and another local fire chief already on scene.

As we round the corner we see an early 90’s Jeep Cherokee upside down in a small dry creek. We hop out of the rig and as we get to the car we find it empty. All around there are beer cans and bottles of various open alcohols. Apparently the drunk driver of the vehicle crashed his vehicle when he came around the turn to quickly.

After he flipped the vehicle over, he thought it would be better to just leave. To most this seems like a stupid idea. For the most part… it is, but at the same time they can’t nail him on drunk driving, all they have on this individual is leaving the scene of an accident.

Oh well, this call did have some potential, but just didn’t pan out tonight.

- Justin

posted by Unknown at 10:52 AM