Surf’s Up
Not too much has changed since the last post, it’s still windy, wet, and wild. I think we’re setting a record for number of fire calls in one week. Yesterday’s action was a big rig that almost drove off of Fernbridge. I wish I had grabbed my camera because how it ended up was amazing, especially since the driver walked away from it. I responded with R4 but went back in to town in a private vehicle to pick up some absorbent from Nilsen’s. (Ironically it was one of Nilsen’s trucks that crashed.) When we arrived back at the scene Shannon who was driving rolled down his window and it was like being in an airplane cabin with sudden depressurization. My FVFD hat flew off, and while I was looking for it in the truck someone said it flew out the window, over the bridge railing and finally landed in the river below. My captain said I get a new replacement hat though since it was lost in the line of duty. Today we’ve had two calls so far, the second being a chimney fire, but it had much happier results than the previous fire. No damage done.