Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Hunting for Firehouses!? Be Vewy Vewy Qwiet!

For two weeks I'd been training a girl at work on one of the channels used to dispatch four of our fire agencies. Since each agency has multiple fire houses and multiple engines and trucks and such they use and they all have different locations of coverage. Anyway - we took a day trip to find each fire house location for the channel.
We started around noon and it took us until about 4:30 pm to see all the houses. Some had people in them - others must have been on calls. BUT it was cool. The houses we visited had time to give us tours and show us where they sleep and work out. We saw their training centers ... here are some pictures.





this one has an awesome location and it's already on a HUGE hill over parts of the county - but the tower give an even better view of their service area! It's amazing from up there I bet.



this is me "driving" one of the burn van's - used for practice on rescuing in vehicles!





But when we went to these places we didn't want to look like this... all cheery and stuff....

so we made ourselves blend by using gear from the army navy surplus store! what do you think?





OK OK I was scared.

1 comment:

Djrocco said...

Lets not wear those again.. LOL...